Hi everyone! I finally made a new background to replace that wavy one I'd had for so many years (which was described in the Chicago Tribune as "appears to be the blue swirling waters of a Tidy Bowl-cleaned toilet" -- sheesh!). And while in real life only my hair is purple, in these pictures I've colorized everything purple because I liked the way they looked with the background. Now what I need is to get a new computer "cam" -- my children have grown so much since I took the pictures on this page, but my original cam got fried, and then when I got another some months ago I spent way too much time trying to get it to work with no success.

At this point my pages are heavily biased towards projects my children and I can do together -- check out Books and stories by Sam and Tané, Sam and Arthur's (mostly board) games page-in-progress (in serious need of updating), to name two -- but at some point I should have a lot more of my own stuff up (not to mention more of Sam's, and especially more of Arthur's, whose pages are very scanty right now).

For nine years I ran the Pyrzqxgl BBS, a tree-structured discussion board in Santa Cruz, California. As Tane is the name of the Polynesian god of forests and trees this seems appropriate.

I get around town on a BikeE recumbent bike.

I recently put up a books page and have started work on some guitar pages.

Quite a while ago I started my blissed-out mother page, intending to stick some of my parenting-related stuff there and to do homage to Bonnie's Radical Mother page, but I haven't done much with it yet.

When I first started putting up pages in Spring 1995, just like everybody else I immediately made lots of different "under construction" signs. Well, here it is 2003 when such signs are very much frowned upon, but I'm leaving my "Rosie" one up anyway (though with the background change now she's gone purple too) because it's become kind of a symbol for me -- I even have a Rosie t-shirt. (BTW, check out Rosie promoting women jazz artists, encryption rights and unions -- she gets around!)

"... as purple as a love that would last forever" - Julius Lester

"'There's no records of anyone called Tachyon anywhere,' said the woman, her voice suggesting that this was a major criminal offense." - Terry Pratchett