About

At various points, I have gone by the following names in the blogosphere: Helcat, Deviathan, Exurbanista, Gallycat, Garish Drubbery, DharmaPanda, Zen Pooky, Shiversplit, Kersplunkity, Vahnia, Helenn, and probably a half dozen more that I’ve forgotten. For 2008, I promised myself I’d merge blogspaces. Since doing so happened to coincide with my changing my name from Helen H. Thompson to Helen C. H. Mosher (the “C.” being a throwback to my Boleyn ancestor Catherine Carey and giving legitimacy to the Helcat nickname I’ve never been able to shake), I decided to migrate from my other most well-known blogname, Gallycat, to HelenMosher.com.

A note about Twitter: Yes, my tweetstream is protected most of the time. (I tend to open it up when I’m being very chatty on it, so that people can see my replies in their third-party applications.) However, if I’ve followed you first, I will of course approve your follow request. And since I do open the stream from time to time, you will, most likely, be able to follow my tweets unless I think you’re a spammer or — more specifically– a commercial twitterer whose services don’t interest me. However, it is rare that I will follow a person back until I see a few replies from that person.

At any rate, trying to write a bio about myself is like trying to catch a moonbeam in your hand, because I’m very much a problem like Maria. So in the meantime, this much is true, and newly updated for 2009, though not much has changed. I am:

• a compulsive writer
• unable to settle on a hair color
• on a weight loss journey
• chronically broke
• fascinated with off-the-grid life skills, like knitting and canning
• a graduate of Colonial Heights High School, Lord Fairfax Community College, and Temple University
• currently a graduate student at George Mason University, working on my Master’s in Public Administration
• happily married to my Luddite husband, Dean
• too young to have a 16-year-old son (K.), at least when you consider that all my peers have preschoolers and babies, if kids at all
• a homeowner in the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
• constantly wishing I’d never left Philadelphia, even though I love it here
• an Episcopalian with more friends that are priests all over the country than in my own local parish
• a speculative fiction fangirl, who used to be seen quite often at various conventions and SFF.net
• a former goth, music critic and occasional DJ
• a social media strategist for a defense/intelligence association,
• an ENFP and a 6-5-9-2 on the Kolbe A
• 5′7″
• a Libra
• a former bookstore manager
• celebrating my 10th year on the blogspace midlist

…among many other things, subject to change daily.