Wel­come to LadyGlutter.com! I truly hope you enjoy your time here.

LadyG­lut­ter is an online pseu­do­nym I’ve used for years. Even­tu­ally, every­one asks me the ori­gins, so I may as well tell the tale now. 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… In the tra­di­tion of Kuralian rock gnomes, it went on and on.  That much of the name was all she both­ered with when mak­ing intro­duc­tions, out of cour­tesy to the other cul­tures she was encoun­ter­ing.  Another gnome would have been fascinated.

Around that time, I also became active on irc. A unique name I really liked was hard to come by, but “Glut­ter­starfinkel” was never taken. Go fig­ure. That became my han­dle, but many peo­ple were irked by the gen­der ambi­gu­ity of said name. One of my most fre­quented rooms was called Camelot, and the self-proclaimed King thereof insisted every­one go by Lord or Lady. Thus, I was dubbed LadyG­lut­ter, and hence­forth, when­ever I’m out and about online, I have used the name. Geeked out yet? Stick around, it’ll get worse I’m sure.

This is the Gen­e­sis Stage for Ladyglutter.com. Sug­ges­tions are wel­come. Right now I’m focus­ing on get­ting some­thing out there, and learn­ing enough basic web design ideas to put some­thing clean and pre­sentable out there for the world to see. As far as con­tent, this web­site has the poten­tial to go in sev­eral direc­tions. Wor­ry­ing about niche has given me an excuse not to set any­thing up for over a year, so I’m going to plough ahead with­out a clear vision of what I’m going to talk about. If I’m pas­sion­ate about it, I will doubt­less end up writ­ing about it. How­ever, I’m inter­ested in so many things! I am filled with curios­ity and an over­whelm­ing thirst for knowl­edge. This broad gen­eral inter­est has been a stum­bling block for me my entire adult life. I’m leav­ing behind my fears and inde­ci­sion and cre­at­ing the site, with the expec­ta­tion that my topic mat­ter will sort itself out as I get used to writ­ing. I’ve read plenty of blogs that talk about a lit­tle bit of every­thing, and are still interesting.

While being a vora­cious reader of var­i­ous blogs along the way, I never intended to blog. I greatly value my pri­vacy, and didn’t want to have a typ­i­cal navel gaz­ing bor­ing live feed into my brain out there for every­one to read. I think that many peo­ple have met with great suc­cess with those type of blogs, but I don’t want that for me. It’s too per­sonal and open to appeal to me. I’ve been wrong before, though, and as I’ve done more and more research, I think a blog is the best for­mat for me to start writ­ing again. I do not want an online diary, but what I do I want is to par­tic­i­pate in the world of self-publishing that has emerged to become a true force in the past decade. The age of the Inter­net has been com­pared many times to the cul­tural awak­en­ing that occurred on the heels of Johannes Gutenberg’s mechan­i­cal print­ing press. Sud­denly, the writ­ten word was acces­si­ble to every­one. Now, as then, an explo­sion of infor­ma­tion is flood­ing our lives. We can quickly find out what­ever we need to know, imme­di­ately. Sure, we have to do some check­ing of our facts, but really, the inter­net has changed everything.

My writ­ing is admit­tedly rusty and a bit ram­bly at the moment, but I already write every day. Emails, jour­nal entries, scribble-scrabble on a piece of paper that I throw away, com­ments to other people’s blogs, posts to online role-playing games. I’m con­stantly writ­ing.  Still, it has been a while since I wrote for pub­lic con­sump­tion.  You have been warned.  I fully expect to make very pub­lic mis­takes, to have awk­ward moments, and to write ram­bly posts… but I also expect to make this a great place to visit.

If you’d like to get in touch with me per­son­ally, I wel­come you to visit my con­tact page.