About / Cast

a woman, 44 45, writes for pleasure, writes for therapy, writes to share . . . writes about growth and change, family and friends, pets, relationship, spirituality, odd ponderings and observations, irony, fiction writing, the mundane and ordinary (and sometimes even finding something profound within the mundane and ordinary) . . . living gluten-free since April 2007 . . . learning to manage fibromyalgia / chronic fatigue / depression / menopause / pmdd / pcos / adult ADD . . . working to overcome food addiction, compulsive clutter / hoarding . . . trying to keep a sense of humor, one day at a time . . .

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The Cast

Some personal bloggers have a Cast of Characters page, explaining the nicknames for people in their lives who they write about.  I didn’t do that, at first, with this blog, because I tend to refer to people in pretty self-explanatory terms here.  (Mom, Dad, Sister, Boss, Mrs. Boss, etc.)  But there are a few names I can list here in case anyone wonders who they are.

Tamp / Tampalama: That’s me.  I began using the name “Tampalama” in 2008, to comment on some blogs I read and as a username for a forum I belong to.  The “Tampa” part is because I live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, and the “lama” part just sort of rolls off the tongue after the “Tampa” part.  (Occasionally, you will see Kerro call me Tramp.  That’s a humorous acknowledgement of a typo I made once.)

SS: Why, that is my Someone Special, of course!  ♥

Emily: My ten-year-old cat who calls me Mama and with whom I share a mental and often psychic connection.

RB: A good friend of mine.  Someone who once knew both of us said it seemed like we shared a brain because we think so much alike at times, finish each other’s sentences, etc.  So we decided we must each own half of one brain.  ”RB” stands for “Right Brain” because she is left handed.  I’m right handed, so I’m “LB”, although I did recently take a test on facebook that said I was right-brain dominant, and I actually am, and technically I’m ambidextrous, but I’m getting off-topic . . .

I will add to this list as other non-obvious names come up.

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