i found this webpage i made
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/kittent/www/index.html
barbara 'kitten' trumpinski-roberts' home page
hi all...
yes, this is another personal home page. i hope it won't bore you.
*thanks go to my daughter, who helped her wicked stepmother start this webpage stuff. (i'm not really all that wicked, but it is an image i have cherished since i first met my stepchildren in 1985.) i have since abandoned tripod (%$#! ads) and have moved to the university server...and i think i even figured out how to make it visible to everyone!
my livejournal link barbarakitten_t
MY ALLABOUT
i was born on sunday, march 6, 1955 in central illinois. i am, in no particular order: a library technical assistant, a grandmother, a pagan, bisexual, part of a women's radio collective, married to two of the most wonderful men and one of the best women in the universe (not to mention a very cool step-wife), a patron of callahans place, and i belong to 4 cats. i like science fiction, journaling, chocolate, and my grandchildren (well, i love my grandchildren...they are beautiful and brilliant) and (i'm not supposed to have chocolate much any more, because my blood sugar is too high.
about my spice...i am NOT a bigamist; we are polyamous. the word poly+amorous translates as 'many loves' and the four of us have more than enough love for each other and for any other loves who become part of our family (like the really cool step-wife).
i have been married to tc for 16 years. he and i had a beautiful committment ceremony in november of 1997 where we joined our lives with our other husband, sean a.k.a. starknight. the ceremony was performed by a priest and priestess who are friends of ours and we had it at darkover, a science fiction convention which is held every year in timonium, maryland. a large contingent of our net.family was in attendance and we were especially honored by the presence of spider and jeanne robinson.
tc married marcey in 2000 in massecheusetts and she moved here to live with us in 2002. (he has known her since god was a girl) i met her in 1984. i bought a couch from her and tc recognized it the first time he took me home.
lady cheron moved here in 2000 and married me and sean and tc in 2001:a wedding odyssey...she is also a callahanian.
about my cats...no pictures yet, but they are kitters the white cat (she has blue eyes and the personality of a 16 year old juvenile delinquent); murrlin the bit bit (he is a largish gray and white once upon a tomcat and a real love); and rozemary p. bittykitty (black with long hair...part himalayan and part slappy squirrel wannabe...she is in training to become underwear, fur side in). they own the three of us body and soul and we are proud to serve them...
we also have a torby (tortoise tabby) names mitsy...she came to us from my mother-in-law's farm the day of my father-in-law's funeral.
cody (lady cheron's wolf) unfortunately crossed the rainbow bridge last year. we miss him and lady cheron has a dog-sized hole in her heart, which has been nearly filled by java (the mutt), who is almost a year old but still very much the puppy. java is a sheagle (shepard/beagle)...he doesn't need caffeine, he doesn't code yet...and he is nearly as fast as the millenium falcon. ;)
marcey is owned by harry, emily, bear-bear and camargo...four fat and feisty cats.
bast is one of our household goddesses. (melissa ethridge is another). my personal goddess is eris, who says:
"i am chaos. i am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. i am the spirit which which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. i am chaos. i am alive, and i tell you you are free."
about my library...i work at the ACES library at the university of illinois in urbana-champaign. ACES stands for agricultural, consumer and environmental sciences and i do mostly technical services now...that cussing you hear is me complaining about the publishers of serials (and don't get me started on government documents)!
about my radio station...i am part of a women's radio collective doing a show called 'womyn making waves' on a community radio station called WEFT (90.1fm). WMW has been on the air for as long as WEFT has been on the air, and it is one of the oldest women's music shows in existance on the radio. we do womyn's music and music by women.
about alt.callahans...callahan's place is a bar, created by spider robinson in a collection of science fiction books and short stories. my suggestion for you, if you want to learn more about callahans, is to go to your nearest bookstore and buy a copy of _the callahan chronicals_ (isbn 0-812-53937-0). it's a great read.
alt.callahans is a usenet newsgroup, created in 1989 by a guy named chris davis. i got there in 1991. there are various places on the web that one can find out about alt.callahans (see url listing) so i won't talk about it too much, except to say that the motto of the Place is "shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy" and the slogan of the Place is "the shortest distance between two straight lines is a pun." i am eternally grateful that i found alt.callahans.
we are in the process of buying and reconstructing a house. pictures of this house will be available when i figure out how to add them.
this page is obviously still under construction....stay tuned.
| Love is Love. | ||||||
barbara trumpinski-roberts
kittent@uiuc.edu
champaign, IL 61821
United States
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