Femme on Fire

Dear Veronica

I know that we haven't seen much of each other lately, I'm often busy Tuesday nights. Then there was the time my roommate changed the channel while you were recording because he didn't yet fully understand the TiVo, and I haven't seen you at all since. But I wanted to tell you how sorry I am to hear that you were cancelled. I'll never forget the good old days, when your pithy commentary of the daily stupidity you were forced to endure bore you through yet another day of crime solving and visions of your dead best friend. I'll think often of your wonderful detective/sherriff/detective/sherriff father who just has no game. I'll miss your man drama- is Duncan your brother? Did Logan cheat with a hooker? How many laws will I have to break to kidnap my boyfriend's baby and help him escape with her to Mexico? Those were good times, my friend, good times.

Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that I'm sure the future of fanfic holds big things for you, and I know I'll be seeing you on DVD. Please remember that even though I couldn't always be there for you the second things happened, I was always watching.

Your BFF,
Ariel

Changing Directions

Hey there, out there in internet land, I have something to tell you. When I started Femme on Fire roughly two years ago it was to keep my family and friends posted as I prepared to leave everything and everyone I had known on this continent and move to France, perhaps permenantly. I wanted a place where I could write about my experiences preparing to go and eventually living there. And while I was there I did that, I captured a part of my life that was so incredible and different from anything I had known and that I will always look back on as a bend in the road. I was also so glad to have you there reading and keeping up on my experiences.

Since I've been back I've tried to maintain this website to keep people posted on what I'm doing, but have not really discovered my voice for this site, or defined the role that it plays in my life. So, now is as good of a time to do that as any. Going forward this website will be dedicated to a Newsletter of sorts for my friends and family who I do not get to talk to often enough. Surprisingly, or not, that includes many of my best friends and loved ones who live right here in my city, but whom I rarely see because we are all so busy (and have you seen that traffic?)!

In the future this website will only have family appropriate content, but I feel I should define that. See, I mean my family. And what my family deems appropriate your family may not. In fact, what I deem is appropriate for my family, my family may not agree with, but I will try to keep the cussing to a minimum and I will only tell stories about drinking and dancing on tables when they are morally sound (just kidding, Grandad!).

If you want a larger window into what I like to call "shenanigans," please contact me and I will be happy to direct you to the appropriate venue. A post of the outlined nature is coming soon!

Transformation

Just when you think the sunburn's healed,
That's when the skin begins to peel.

The Highlights of Working from Home

Plenty of time for

Belly Rubs and

Crazy Action.