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"I reject your reality and substitute my own."

-- Adam Savage, cohost of Mythbusters

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Greetings, fellow blogosherans.

My name is Soni Pitts. Welcome to my blog.


Who am I?

I am basically a free-range bon vivant, determined to enjoy life to its fullest and take as many people with me as I can. 

If you ask me what I do, I'm just as likely to answer "When?" as to provide the more socially acceptable (and helpful) tangible life-tag. That's because I do whatever strikes my fancy and then play with it until I get bored and move on.

Currently, I am enjoying some amazingly cool success as a life coach (specializing in helping people make more sustainable, abundant and joyful choices about their life and their lifestyle), helping to run a social capital and networking learning community and am in the early stages of creating a business in freelance writing and copywriting.

In the past, I have been an exotic dancer, an Americorps member building homes for the Durham, NC Habitat for Humanity and a librarian, among other things. I am also a legally ordained minister, for what it's worth, although I do not actually do much with it at the moment.

As for the future? Who knows...hopefully it will be fun, useful and leave the corporeal plane a better place than it was when I got here.

I am also...

...a happily married, child-free, first-born vegetarian with a penchent for good food and drink, cats, science fiction, 'dead body tv,' great humor and the written word.

...a geek-chick, in the sense of a 'sci-fi fan who reads books on quantum physics for fun, can find her way around html and a CSS without getting too badly burnt, defaults to open-source over DRM'd snare-ware and thinks Cory Doctorow and his posse are gods' kind of geek, rather than a 'code monkey, hardware-modding, can build a computer from duct tape and old twist ties' kind of geek. Geek 2.0: The Web Edition, if you will.

...a child of the '60s, a product of the '80s and '90s, and a fully engaged citizen of the '00s - and I just can't frakking wait to see what's next.

...lining up to welcome our emerging Google overlords.

...a somewhat lapsed Pastafarian.


My vision for life...

...is to create a permanent lifestyle of joyous and fully engaged semi-retirement that narrows my resource footprint and expands my options by opting for sustainable simplicity, work-of-choice rather than work-of-neccessity, ongoing personal growth, integrated community and global service and time for the sheer enjoyment of the benefits of coporeal existance in a healthy, abundant manner.

Yanno, the usual stuff.

Here is a brief idea of what you will find herein:

• inspirational, intriquing and thought-provoking insights, stories and ideas that interest or intrique me
  
  
• cool links, tools/services and other fun and interesting tidbits from around the world and off the Web
  
  
• zombie news, sightings and other matters relating to the state of the undead
  
  
• issues, problems, new lines of thought and other pesky products of my over-extended navel-gazing
  
  
• what's going on in my world and updates on anything interesting or useful (interesting or useful to me, that is; your mileage may vary)
  
  
• random friend, family and colleague pimping, and occasionally some auto-pimpage, as I see fit
  
  
• random rants, snarks, snerks, jabs, kudos, WTFs, giggle and/or hissy fits and other such reactions to the world around me
  
  

In the interests of fair warning, here are a list of the official DGB rules and policies:

1. My space, my rules. You may call me on anything you feel is BS or express any opinion of your own. I may agree or I may not, and will summarilly delete anything that is intended as pure troll-baiting or just nasty for nasty's sake, but in the end, it's my blog, so I win. You wanna play by your rules, get your own blog. So there, nyah nyah nyah.
   
   
2. What I put in here is my opinion, and no one else's, unless I note to the contrary. I may be wrong (hey, it can happen!) and I encourage free and open debate of any subject in the comments section or by private email. Who knows, I may even change my mind (don't tell hubby that, though. I'd never get any peace).
   
   
3. NO FLAMING! 'Nuff said.
   
   
4. Although I do not go out of my way to be foul-mouthed or engage in shock journalism, I do occasionally use adult language and R-rated humor. Deal with it or not, as you see fit. (See rule #1).
   
   
5. All nationalities, religions (or lack therof), lifestyles and so on are to be welcomed and loved here - or at least treated respectfully - by all who participate. If you can't deal with that, you're obviously just not ready for this place at this time. Feel free to come back later if that changes, no hard feelings.
   
   
6. Feel free to offer your own personal or business resources and assistance whenever appropriate (generally in response to another's request) in the comments section. But there will be absolutely NO SPAM tolerated. And no, I'm not gonna type out a long list of what is and isn't SPAM. You're grown ups. You can figure it out. If you can't, I'll do it for you and it won't be pretty.

 

And now that we've gotten all of that out of the way...let the games begin!

Soni Pitts