About Me

Misanthropy: hatred of mankind; a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people – wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Okay, that’s not completely true. But there’s a combination of disappointment in mankind and a certain amount of mistrust. I think the disappointment actually comes from my optimism. How else could someone be so frequently frustrated with other people if she wasn’t expecting them to make better decisions to begin with?

Misanthropy does not necessarily imply an inhumane or sociopathic attitude towards humanity and on the contrary is generally a reaction to the observed prevalence of these and other backward properties of the present state of the human race.

I’m a thirty-something east coast transplant, the daughter of a Navy officer, and I moved from Indianapolis to Chicago after almost twenty years in Indiana. I recently graduated with my BA in English from IU, and am now pursuing a Master’s degree in Writing in Publishing at DePaul University.

I worked for almost six years for the same independent coffeehouse and moved to Chicago with another job at a chain coffeeshop that ended after only two weeks. So I’m officially a stay-at-home-mom, as much as the idea makes me anxious. I did secure a freelance editing position for a new digital media group.

I have one little girl named Beatrice June, born in 2009 – and a fantastic partner in life named Charlie.