Hi. I'm Tanya, a 36 year old person lady type of human. I have two kids, one 13, one 7. Also a husband, who is becoming old and cantankerous, which makes me love him more. He goes out and designs implements of torture while I look after the kids and write very badly. In our off-time, we kill various pixelated entities together, which is great fun.

In a previous life when I was young and active and stuff, I worked on some campaigns, usually for Republican candidates. I also moderated Undernet #politics under both Thrall and uzi as tresboo (if anyone here knows what I'm talking about) and was an inhabitant of the AOL Newsroom back in the early days of online chat in ~1991 - hoping maybe an old vet of those places might be lurking around here somewhere maybe.

As I've become older, I've leaned heavily libertarian and indeed am very socially liberal - could be because of where I am and was brought up (SF Bay Area), so I see a lot of concrete evidence of relaxed social policies - very "live and let live" here and I like it very much - no riots here!

I'll likely do a lot of reading for a lot of days before I say anything worthwhile, but thought I'd say hello. Samantha is a good acquaintance of mine, she's wonderful, and she let me know about this place, so.. thank you Sam!