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  • Rules, Rosters & Roulette

    This is the story of how I used my psychotically organized personality to find the love of my life on Match.com. A story for a different time: I was married for 10 years, had 3 kids with said-husband, and then… Continue reading

    Rules, Rosters & Roulette
  • Why am I in here?

    Writing the second-half of my life while being in denial that the first-half is already over. That’s where we meet. Hello. I’m Shellie. I have whatever the female-equivalent version of Peter Pan syndrome is. Meaning, I think of myself as… Continue reading

    Why am I in here?
  • Calling all Versions

    The magic that emerges from effective collaboration is undeniable. When diverse minds converge with a shared purpose, the results can be transformative. Continue reading

    Calling all Versions

To be nobody but myself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me somebody else-means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting.” – e.e. cummings

— Thorin Oakenshield

I am an unrestrained consumer of books and life. A military wife on her first PCS to Germany and mother to three sons. The world is too large not to gulp it up at every opportunity and the thoughts are too abundant to keep them in my mortal form.