BESIDE MYSELF: March 2009

Mencken was right

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken,
writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

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I'm Roberta Morris. If you've known me for a very long time, I'm probably more familiar as Bobbie Botvin. I changed my name for business purposes some time ago, and liked my alternate moniker so well I took it as my legal name, thereby shedding yet another name acquired by marriage. .

In the course of a very odd career, I've been a freelance journalist and copywriter, an English teacher, the owner of a small ad agency, a social activist, the manager of a huge corporate Web site, and a fundraiser. I've lived in Rhode Island, Manhattan, rural Massachusetts, lower Westchester, and suburban New Jersey.

In this incarnation, I'm a resident of Chapel Hill, NC, where I've installed myself and my cat in a cottage-like condo overlooking a lake. In reality, this a large pond inhabited mostly by carnivorous turtles, raucous geese, and a few haphazardly hybridized ducks. One day, I actually watched the first of these attack and consume one of the last. It wasn't pretty.

These days I'm freelancing as a writer, Web author/designer, and editor. If I can help you with this sort of thing,

Monday, March 02, 2009

I'm divorcing Blogger

Pursuant to my aforementioned troubles with the original Blogger software, I've moved my blog over to Wordpress. It's at
http://robertamorris.wordpress.com

I'm still tweaking it.

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Monday, March 02, 2009

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