Why LadyG­lut­ter?

LadyG­lut­ter is an online pseu­do­nym I’ve used for years. In col­lege, I played AD&D (or 2nd Edi­tion Dun­geons & Drag­ons) with a small group of friends. My husband-to-be was my DM. (He still is, by the way, and we’re still play­ing in his cam­paign world.) My third char­ac­ter was a gnome illu­sion­ist named Bofala Glut­ter­starfinkel. It was back in the old days where cha­t­rooms were novel and fun. (Not Cha­tRoulette fun, though. Gross.) “Glut­ter­starfinkel” was never taken. Go fig­ure. That later mor­phed into LadyGlutter.

What’s the blog about?

I have no idea. It’s just some­thing I write some­times, for no other rea­son than that I do. Orig­i­nally, I was try­ing to see if I could fig­ure out how to write for a liv­ing. I actu­ally do that now, so I sup­pose it was a step­ping stone in that direc­tion. If you’re inter­ested in ghost­writ­ing or free­lance writ­ing, I cer­tainly do that, but this blog is com­pletely and utterly per­sonal, and I am not writ­ing it for any­thing but me.  As such, it’ll be ram­bly and awk­ward and per­sonal and the gram­mar will suck and I won’t always proof­read it and you get the idea. What­ever I feel like writ­ing at the moment.

I’ve talked about being a nerd, my dreams, what­ever I’m read­ing or doing at the moment, thoughts of going back to school, career changes, time man­age­ment, and so many things.  Some of them are intensely, uncom­fort­ably personal.

Sui­cide Survivor

My brother hanged him­self in June of 2009. I couldn’t bear to talk about things out loud, but this blog became a home for those thoughts I couldn’t name to my fam­ily and friends. I worked through what being a sur­vivor of sui­cide was really about, and bared my soul for the entire world to see.

I learned I am made of strong stuff, which gets stronger when it is tried in the fire.  I am a phoenix. My tears and my song are bit­ter­sweet and powerful.

If you’d like to get in touch with me per­son­ally, here’s my con­tact page.