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Name: Rebecca

Hometown: San Francisco

Past town: New York City

Current town: San Francisco

Born: 1982

Husband: Bill, works at Google

Son: James, born 2010

Occupation: Domestic Goddess

Past occupation: inner-city second grade teacher

Favorite music: James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Simon & Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Michael Jackson

Favorite book: The Great Gatsby

Favorite foods: mac n cheese, deep dish pizza, coconut rice, fried zucchini blossoms, south indian dosas

Favorite desserts: anything with chocolate

Hobbies: cleaning, cooking, imovie, staying up late, paper collage, etsy 

Bad habits: talking about myself, giving unsolicited advice

Why I'm blogging: talking about myself, giving unsolicited advice

Really, why I'm blogging: I love to write.  I miss writing.  When I was younger I was an avid journaler, then I switched to all academic writing and I loved that, but now I do neither.  I'm looking for a way to combine it - something in between stream of consciousness and structured essay.  Also, I'm an efficiency fiend . . . as a teacher I was obsessed with streamlining processes, organizing people/things, and helping kids to understand how to succeed at life.  Now I have no one to force my wisdom upon.  So unsolicited advice is born.  It won't always be advice, but with some mix of opinions/thoughts/musings I figure there will be some kind of point in there somewhere.