First a little personal info. My name is Francine DeGrood Taylor, and I live near Portland, Oregon. I'm 40 years old and have been married for 10 years to a wonderful man named Calvin. We're both computer geeks; he's a chip designer and I'm an applications programmer.
What with working full time and being a computer game addict I find it impossible to spend much time writing so I'll probably be eighty or so before I actually get a novel finished, but I love to write anyway! I read sf/f almost exclusively (and the occasional romance). One of my other favorite activities is role playing, though I don't have time for more than one game a week (ah, for the good old days in college when I could manage two or three :)
I also love animals. Our little house in the suburbs with its tiny 1/3 acre backyard doesn't allow for many pets, but we do have two cats, a German Sheperd, two sugar gliders and a couple of toads. When the weather is good I do a bit of gardening; I have been cultivating four leaf clovers for many years. My stock seed now produces anywhere from 5% to 50% four leaf clovers, depending on the plant and its age (older clover produces more).
Anyway, over the years I've found a number of interesting sites on the web, and I've found it more convenient to keep track of them on web pages than on browser lists. Feel free to explore my web pages. I've divided them up by topic of interest. If you know of any sites which you think I ought to include, please let me know.
Subjects contained in my web pages:
Pets
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Fanfic
Writers' Resources
Sherlock Holmes
Fantastic and Mythological Creatures
Role Playing
Computers
Computer Games (freeware, shareware, reviews, tips, cheats, etc)
Gardening Page
Crafts
Music
Employment
Humor
Miscellaneous
Search Engines
Calvin's home page, hosted by our li'l buddy Foofy
Also, the page for my high school 20 year reunion web page All St. Mary's of the Valley grads please pop on over and take a look.
Back to the top of my Home Page, go to
my Writers' Resources Page,
my Science Fiction/Fantasy Page,
my Fanfic Page,
my Fantastic and Mythical Creatures Page,
my Pets Page,
my Gardening Page,
my Computer Games Page,
my Sherlock Holmes Page,
my Role Playing Page,
my Computer Page,
my Crafts Page,
my Music Page,
my Page of Search Engines,
my Miscellaneous Page,
my Calvin's Page,
or email me.
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