In Portland, of all places. Former liberal. Contemplating a move; this town is impossible, and it's getting worse. Writer, bookseller, wife, mother of a daughter and son. Night owl, caffeine-and-nicotine addict; I love Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Dorothy Parker, H.L. Mencken, Flannery O'Connor, Mark Twain, Ruth Rendell, Shirley Jackson, James Ellroy, Fyodor Dostoievsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anatole France, Florence King, James Randi.