Livre d'Or

Your Identity - A bit of this & that. There's a fair bit on my profile, but in a nutshell (& not necessarily all on my profile) I've just turned 40, am FTM, a photographer, a husband, Dad to 4 cats and several fish. I'm an American who's been in New Zealand for the last 9 years, moved here after meeting my wife online.

What you are passionate about - Well, passionate? I don't know about that. But things I'm into at different levels are archery, gardening, photography, critters, the environment, reading. I like my tv but am not fannish about it. I enjoy a variety of music, love to cook & bake and occassionally do crafts (although this has fallen a bit by the wayside since I've been busy with my online shop).

How you use Dreamwidth - For just about everything??? I'm a sporadic poster and have a few accounts. I have red_trillium as my general everything journal (work/life/photos/etc). It was originally on LJ and I cross post it there. I have pinepig primarily for my photography and shop posts. Then there's pinepigs_garden primarily for my gardening posts. Oh, and I set up a comm for archery here, arrow_rest although it's very quiet right now.

A link to a recent post of yours that is characteristic of your journal or writing style Ummm...I cross-post sometimes between journals so it's hard to say. I do also exclusively-post to one and then post a link to it on one of the others so people are aware its there. This how to about terrariums is something I posted at pinepigs_garden but also at red_trillium. This is one of my archery photos I posted at pinepig, red_trillium & a shorter version at arrow_rest. Check any of my journals out if you want. Only red_trillium & pinepig have a mix of friends locked and public posts.

A link to a journal on Dreamwidth you think people might enjoy reading, even if they don't know the writer personally - Umm, there's a few & I hope they don't mind me putting their names here. I like angelikitten's posts. She has up and down moments like we all do but posts a variety of queer-thoughts, gender-thoughts, mostly real life & some fict. She's talented with styles and icons and made some cute rainbow people moods. ariestess posts both real life and fict stuff and is fairly prolific with her quotes, Fun Time Wasting Links and posts DailyOm thoughts.

For comms I'd suggest thriftycooking for great tips on cooking on a budget, actyourwage for great tips, help & support to live within your means and photofriends for great all-around photography posts, tips & questions.

PS--in case you hadn't noticed, I'm a tad verbose. Just a tad mind you. And it drives my coworkers crazy when they want me to explain something or tell them how to do something. :)