NoraJean
- Age: 59
- Sex: Female
- Location:
USA - Occupation: Online Polymer Clay Teacher
- Member since: Apr 2006
- Web site: http://www.norajean.com
About me
Oh don't you just love having to come up with something new for these "about me" pages? What... I'm female and married, albeit in a weird way. I have 4 grown sons, 4 grand sons, 1 grand daughter.I consider myself a "Rice Cracker" being half Japanese and my Dad having been from Mississippi. I love Larry the Cable Guy and Akira Kurosawa films.
I love Sci Fi books and movies that deal with dystopian societies set in the near future, it looks like a preview of coming events to me. My two former blogs got toasted with having to move to a new web host in early 2008. I've started another one and it's a "pre-fab" FrontPage theme sub section dropped in the Mystery House that is my main website.
I was once called an intellectual snob, so I like to read, watch a lot of PBS and CSPAN, send blessing to Sister Wendy and have her videos about the museums of the world.
If I were to be remembered for anything I'd like that to be that I turned my life around, saved myself from a fate of being stupid and poor to one of just being poor and philosophical. LOL No strike that, remember me for helping others goose their muse and hold their hand while they got a grip on their clay. Ya, that's the ticket.
My work
Had my first child when I was 17, got my HS degree at 21, my BA at 35, was accepted into Creative Writing Graduate School at SFSU in time for the '89 quake, when I was 40, so I ate my tuition and went out to do clerical work. Such is the romantic life of an artist.I got myself off of welfare through education. I've been an Office Manager, Executive Assistant, Administrative Assistant and Home Health Aid for the Elderly. Domestic work comes in handy when office jobs are not available. Got caught up in the Dot.Com boom and bust cycle and don't regret a minute of it.
I teach polymer clay and miniatures online for free, been doing that since 1999. I'd work a real job if I could find one, but I don't think that boomer grandmothers are particularly marketable.
Fast facts
- At the movies I like to see:SciFi and Willy The Shake
- Last movie seen:Matrix, Don't like the movie theaters, buy DVDs
- Music I listen to:Pan World
- Best album right now:Zap Mama
- Favorite author:William Gibson
- Last book read:Re-Read the CyberPunk Trilogy again
- Best game right now:Not a Gamer
- Software I use:FrontPage, PhotoShop, Premier
- Hardware I use:PC custom made years ago, now obsolete
- If I won 1 million dollars, I would:Get a Lawyer, Accountant, Personal Finance Manager and hide the whole family
- If I were a super hero I would:Be invisible
- I wish I could:Make money from my art
- Favorite travel destination:Anywhere on Delta Family Pass
- On my vacation I..:Stay with ClayMates and teach for free
- Favorite sports team:Not into Sports
- I'm passionate about:Watching the end of the world unfold
- Food I like:San Francisco Ethnic
- I don't like:People who talk loud and stupid on cell phones in public places.
Group memberships
| The Lounge | Member |
Favorite links
- NoraJean.Com
My current polymer clay efforts
- Clay Alley
Official Clay Vendor for CITY-o-Clay
- CITY-o-Clay Yahoo Group
Where a dozen volunteers nurture over 1,600 list members
- PCpolyzine
Free Online Magazine for Polymer Clay
- Jim Collins Mini Printables
Free Mini Printables, click his links and help support this site
- Blog I pay to host
Politics, Economy, Natural Disasters, all sorts of stuff
- Aunty's Hide Out
Testing other free blogs for Computer-CITY
- SFist
SFist is a website about San Francisco and everything that happens in it.
- Backfence.com - San Francisco Bay Area
A network of hyperlocal citizens' media community Web sites
- Fecal Face
SF/NYC/LA art features, forums, calendars for events and more
- Flavorpill SF
A city guide for those with little time, every issue of Flavorpill features a hand-picked selection of cultural happenings, across art, music, film, theatre, dance, literature, and DJ events.
- Left in San Francisco
News and (mostly) opinion from San Francsico’s economic left
- Metroblogging San Francisco
Written from the perspective of people who live, work, and play here every day...part of the Metroblogging network.
- San Francisco CITYSCAPE
The online journal of Bay Area urban design
- SF Progressive
A destination site for information about progressive politics, people and culture.
- The Bay Area Is Talking
If it's being discussed in the Bay Area, we hope you'll find it here.
- The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
To promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of Chicano, Central and South American, and Caribbean people
- SF Museum of Modern Art
My Favorite Museum in San Francisco
- SF Station
SF Bay Area's definitive online city guide to Arts & Culture, Entertainment, Food, Shopping, and Urban Living for the 18 - 45 year old demographic.
- The Laughing Squid
Independent web hosting company, based out of SF, that provides friendly, dependable and secure services to artists, individuals, bloggers, non-profits and small orgs.
- Indybay
The San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center is a non-commercial, democratic collective of bay area independent media makers and media outlets, and serves as the local organizing unit of the global Indymedia network.