There’s no adequate way to summarize a rich and varied life (a.k.a. a checkered career), but I’ll give it a shot:

– I write, I compose music, I design graphics and websites, I troubleshoot computers and networks, I garden, I push prims around in Second Life, I have an irrepressible sense of humor and pun with alacrity

– creative stuff is where my heart is, but I’m also an insatiable knowledge sponge, and have managed to soak up a smidgeon of wisdom in spite of myself. I also have a happy knack for strategies and big picture organizing, and seem to thrive most  where I have new stuff to learn or new projects to develop. Boredom strikes when life becomes too routine, and I’m very adept at upsetting the applecart when that occurs!

– I’ve had careers in regional planning, opinion research, construction, arts & crafts, marketing communications, music (performing singer-songwriter-studio junkie),  online community-building (I’m an eWorld refugee and was involved with Talk City from its inception until 2001), association management, and network admin/tech support. I currently use several of those skillsets working for a nonprofit retreat center

– I’ve been something of a hermit for several years, happily playing out the introverted aspect of my INXP profile (I flip-flop between T and F, depending on the situation & my mood). I can be quite gregarious part of the time, but thrive on solitude in abundance.

– Spiritually, I call myself a Buddhist, tho I don’t cling to any label - I’ve tasted One Taste, rested in Suchness, splashed around in Pure Presence… and still regularly track mud all over the house!

– I’m a long-time Ken Wilber fan (I started reading him in the early 80s when nobody knew who he was), and have been delighted to watch the more recent unfolding of AQALity

– Over the past couple of years I’ve gradually gotten immersed in Second Life, where you’ll find me as Tara Yeats, looking suspiciously like the avatar you see here - realtime chat is definitely where I’m most at home - much harder to edit yourself out of existence, which I’m all too skilled at doing in discussion boards. I'm finding Second Life is a pretty rich inspiration for some blogging, which you'll find at "tara incognita" - www.tarayeats.com