This is the fourth incarnation of my blog, which has found its home in several different corners of the internet, for almost a decade now. But I can assure you that lauraraeamos.com will be the final home of this blog and any of its future incarnations. After all, where else can a writer go but to her own self-titled egocentric domain?

To read more about this blog’s title, and ambitions, read this.

home = now, Virginia

Born and raised in southern Michigan, my husband and I now live with our adorable little tornado of a boy in Alexandria, Virginia.

family = Jim + Dylan (+Joy)

Jim is a brilliant and talented man whose actual job title escapes me. He programs things for the internet, and he does it very well, is all I know. Despite his dorky tendencies, he is surprisingly charming and romantic, and has a British accent. What more can a girl ask for? He and I met online (which doesn’t evoke as many strange glances as it did back in good ol’ 2002!) and were married in 2003.

Our little Dylan joined the party in 2006. He is an affectionate and fearless little boy who likes to climb and jump off of things. We imagine him being a skydiving instructor when he grows up, but who knows?

I have a sister named Joy who is tragically offended that she wasn’t listed in my family section. And in listing Joy, then I also have to list Stuart, Jewel, Tom, Taylor… There are no pets. I don’t need animals – I have a kid!

have been = waitress, bank teller, video store clerk (man, do you remember back when we used to rent videos from video stores!?!), pizza shop chef, Subway Sandwich Artist

I am currently about 56% a novelist, 121% frazzled stay-at-home mom, and 23% sloppy housewife.

brilliance, in no particular order =

books: John Irving, Lorrie Moore, Sherman Alexie, T.C. Boyle, Charles Baxter, Janet Fitch, Margaret Atwood, Joshua Ferris, Stephen Chbosky, Jeffrey Eugenides, A.M. Homes, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens, Kurt Vonnegut

poetry: Mark Doty, E.E. Cummings, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot

film: (500) Days of Summer, Good Dick, Amélie, Juno, Vanilla Sky, Office Space, Man in the Moon, American Beauty

television: Mad Men, Weeds, Dexter, Doctor Who, Being Human, Gray’s Anatomy, The Office, My So-Called Life, Shameless, Daria, Sex in the City.

music: Incubus, Radiohead, Alanis Morissette, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Augustana, Snow Patrol, Pilot Speed, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Brandi Carlile, Ingrid Michaelson