At 5'1", I think 5'4" is *tall*, but that's just me. Indigo Girl blogged recently about the double the 18-month height formula. She didn't say it was specifically for girls, but she has all girls. I've also heard: take average of mother's height and father's height, then add 2" for a boy or subtract 2" for a girl.

I'm sorry. I hope the phone sessions help. Your therapist always sounded amazing when you wrote about her back then.

Ah. the mold. I've got it too. The worst is that it is not seasonal, just comes and goes all year long. I sometimes envy the cedar fever folks. I hope the claritin helps Hannah.

That sounds like a hard decision. Good luck. One thing to consider might be that you are already public, to the extent that you spoke to the Lege committee that time, your picture is on your blog, etc. So it might be a false sense of security you get from a pen name. Gosh, I sound paranoid, sorry, but what I mean is that you can still take measures to protect your security even if using your real name. On the other hand, there is a long history of authors using pen names, or different names for different genres (for ex, academics who use pen names to write mysteries, pulp fiction writers who use different names for mainstream vs. erotic books) so you could make a "name" for yourself that is separate from your freelance work.

I'm so happy to hear that it went well. Thanks for the update.