Hi all. I also stumbled onto this site and considered just lurking but you are all so wonderfully compelling that I wanted to get involved. I'm in Florida also, so we are well-represented. I guess I was looking for information on women's issues when I came across this site. I'm in my late 40s and experiencing some of the things others have written about--wonderful changes in myself, turmoil in a marriage, kids growing up and having their growing pains...Not unusual stuff but hard to deal with sometimes.

I'm a university professor and I love to write. I write for work--publish or perish--but also for pleasure. I look forward to reading what others have written.

Someone remarked that things rarely happen by accident and I believe that, so I think that maybe this site will bring me something I've been needing, and I hope that maybe I can give in some way as well.