My friend Jay once told me that when he first came to Taos he thought, “Wow. I could really disappear here!”

I think I shared a similar sentiment. Disappearing seemed extremely appealing when I first arrived in Taos at the tender age of twenty one years old. Now, a few years later – okay sixteen years later – the allure of being “disappeared” is beginning to wear off. Blame it on motherhood, or maybe on sleeping again for the first time in years, but I want to connect and reconnect. And since I live most of the time in a beautiful place in the middle of nowhere, writing a blog seemed like a good way to do that.  If you want to see how the title of City Mouse and Country Mouse came about, read Just Like Baby Jesus.

I am married to a wonderful computer geek named Oban (like the Scotch.) We met while working at Taos Ski Valley. We have beautiful sons named Jack and Liam, identical twins whom Oban has referred to as “the little bastards” ever since the day we found out that the reason I was still so nauseous was because there were two in there. We also have a loyal nanny mut named Sissy. She is fourteen and getting way too old. And we have two new hamsters named Tiny and Kookookutie who only come out to play on their wheel when Jack and Liam are unconscious.

I grew up mostly on Long Island in a town called Setauket, and for a few miserably awkward middle school years in California. I attended Cornell University (after one year at Villanova University) where I graduated cum laude with a degree in history. I include the cum laude part because it makes me happy to remember that I’m technically qualified to do things other than the dishes, the laundry and the food shopping. I have a masters degree in education and taught middle school in Taos for five years.  I will begin teaching at the University of New Mexico, in Taos, in August of 2009.

We spend a large part of our summers in New York.