Psycho Sensei is named after the fabulous Talking Head's song, Psycho Killer. As I was a kickboxing instructor to geeks, they gave me the name, and it stuck. What else stuck is left up to the imagination.

I've always had great difficulty when asked to define myself. It's not because there are no words that describe who I am - it's more the case that there are too MANY words (not all of them good :-)). Perhaps I should be the poster child for adult ADD.

Psycho Sensei is currently a Tae Kwon Do instructor for Grandmaster Eung Gil Choi's United States Tae Kwon Do Martial Arts Academy. All this is fancy hoo ha to indicate that I spend 4 nights a week being tortured by children.

I am also a Wiccan. I am a Third Circle Student in the Church of Universal Eclectic Wicca, a Second Degree Priestess in the Correllian Nativist Tradition, and a Master Herbalist from the Global Institute for Alternative Medicine. I also have a Wiccan Webshop at www.enchantedworks.com

I am the mother of a very interesting young woman named Morgan who turns 13 in October. I am the wife of a young man I met on a diving trip (he turns 54 in October). I have been inhabiting this particular body for 44 years now, and hope I get used to it sometime soon.

In my work life, I am an intellectual property and software licensing attorney, working for various clients when I can. I also do work as a civil libertarian, trying to balance intellectual property rights with speech and expression rights. See the Domain Name Rights Coalition. In my opinion, the tables should be far more skewed in favor of speech and expression, but those with money and funding disagree with me. In my relatively spare, spare time, I make and sell jewelry made of charged stones, teach scuba diving and shoot as many underwater photos and videos as possible, act as a flight instructor when I can, am an author, mentor, wannabe geek, macintosh enthusiast, web designer, and practitioner of anything else that looks like fun.

In a former life, I co-founded and ran the first software company to offer commercial Internet applications for the Macintosh (founded in 1988), flew around the world to ridiculous meeting to attempt to shape what became the nightmare of ICANN, have been quoted in various and sundry publications like Scientific American, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, various and sundry television shows like TechTv and MSNBC, and too many radio programs to mention concerning how the little guy is being trashed by big company and govermental power on the Internet (nobody cared), and semi-retired in 1995 after being told I was "unemployable."

I live in Great Falls, VA in a house shared with the aforementioned daughter and husband, three insane parrots, four crazy dogs, and three crazy cats.