Catriona Lovett

"...it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast..." ~ the Red Queen to Alice As a writer, I've been lucky to survive enough misdeeds, misadventures, and mishaps to feed my creative beast for a long time. I relish the antics of the rest of my species, whether I'm laughing at them or crying with them. When we moved to ATX from Rochester NY, the happy, friendly, creative, and vividly weird culture here made it the best place on Earth. Nearly thirty years later, we've fled to Nameless as Austin has become Californicated, gentrified, and even Threadgill's has closed its central location because it's too dang expensive to operate downtown. I went to Hippie Hollow. Once. Aging makes skinny dipping less thrilling, but it was worth it just to carry on a pleasant conversation with a park ranger as she carefully kept her eyes directed at my face. What an interesting job that must be! The kids are all grown now. My husband and I are rediscovering the joy of being able to walk nekkid around the house. Visitors: call in advance. I used to be a social butterfly and just-for-fun social event organizer. I'm a former adrenaline junkie who now much prefers disaster porn and horror films on TV over cinema rom-coms. I've had enough adventures, conflicts, and grief to give me PTSD. I'm now content to watch the grass grow from our porch for the rest of my life. I'm never bored and rarely lonely. But the world is so entertaining, sometimes I just crave getting out and about in it. So I read. A lot. I've got a very dark, twisted, smartass streak that sometimes can't be contained. I also have no filter. When I die, instead of RIP, my tombstone will read TMI. My spirit animal is the Cheshire Cat. I'm happily invisible until I choose to be seen, observing those who pass my way, particularly when they're from somewhere else. I'm a curious character and I'm curiouser about you. Like Alice's friend, if you ask me a question, my answer may perplex you. Don't worry, after contemplation, all will become clear. Wherever you go, there you are. I'll see you around, out there in Wonderland.