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It wasn’t all that long ago when only a few homes had Internet service, all of it dial up, and we all wondered if anything would really come of cyberspace. Would it live up to the hype? Was it worth the $17.95/month AOL fee?

Roll back the clock to 1995 and read what Newsweek’s Clifford Stoll had to say on the topic of technology, in his article “The Internet? Bah! — Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana.“

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I always refer to blogging as having a conversation, so I’m delighted to be pulled into one by Coryan from UTurnAhead.com. Actually it’s more like a game of tag … don’t be surprised to find your own name at the end of this post. I’ve been tagged by Coryan to write a list of seven weird things about me, but I’m going to follow his lead and go with “strange but true.” So here goes.

1. I’m a bit of a health nut, but in a politically incorrect fashion. A few years ago, I jumped off the low fat, low sodium, artificially sweetened, ultra-pasteurized bandwagon and I’ve never looked back. There’s raw organic milk from grass-fed cows in my fridge, and my morning coffee with real cream is a real treat.
2. I was married at 18 to my high school sweetheart. 28 years later, we’re still going strong! No, I don’t think that’s strange, but it’s also not quite normal! We have two grown and happily married sons, and five beautiful granddaughters.
3. I used to play the violin. It took me eight years to figure out that I would never be any good at it.
4. Yes, I have a stubborn streak!
5. Before reopening my business, I worked as a marketing communication specialist for what would have been the world’s first nonprofit youth mall. Coincidentally, it was located in the United State’s first enclosed mall. Talk about a fun job if you like teens and marketing! Unfortunately, it didn’t get off the ground, and that mall, in great disrepair has recently been razed.
6. I taught myself web design because I wanted to understand how it worked. Along the way, I discovered my inner geek. There’s a part of me that really enjoys working in code.
7. In another life, I was a happy and busy stay-at-home mom, with a huge garden, chickens, ducks, geese, a goat, a lamb, horses, a dog and several barn cats. We lived in Great Falls, Montana with a distant view of the mountains out our front window. That’s where I rediscovered that I loved to write and draw. You simply can’t be around that much inspiration without a way to record it!

I enjoyed coming up with this list! But we’re not quite done yet. Now I’d like to learn seven strange but true things about:

Scott Alberts of ALBERTS Illustration & Design
Kimberly Bock of Learning SEO Basics
Dean Peters of Heal Your Church Website
Heather at CottageBlogger
Joe at The Bunker blog

That’s right. Tag, you’re it!

Photo courtesy of Uptonia

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