Hi. I’m mofembot, and this is my blog. In point of fact, I am an American ex-pat living in France, with occasional week-long work stints in Germany, who is slowly dusting off the cobwebs of a former life filled with the joys, sorrows, and listservs of verbiage: for about 10 years, from roughly the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, I was a leading voice in Mormon feminist discussion groups, with occasional forays into creative writing and (very occasional) political commentary.
I’d be lying if I said it was simply the exigencies of life that plunged me into quietude. It’s true that I ended up with a couple of demanding and time-consuming jobs for a while, but mostly… I was bored. Bored of endlessly having to make the same arguments whenever some new neanderthal would show up on one of the lists I belonged to. And I was in mourning: at some point toward the end of my on-line tenure, I stopped believing in Mormonism and stopped going to church. Perhaps it was just too painful to keep the virtual ties intact at the same time I was severing the real-life ones.
So. Anyway. I’m back. I am not going to have much of a Mormon feminist focus in this round, although I am planning on putting up a few of my essays from times past. After all, a recent visit to a few contemporary Mormon feminist on-line sites makes it pretty clear that the same arguments are being hashed and re-hashed. Seems like I should point out the dates on a few of my posts and get a little credit for some of the “original” thinking going on these days.
And I’ll probably put a few other older works up as well. Why not?
My major project these days is writing a book about my experience as the principal of a private American school housed in a French public school. However, I’ve decided that this particular oeuvre should be accessed from my other main site, nonlynnear.com, so y’all will have to go over there to take a look.