May 2007 : Who is RubyJean, anyway? Just some ordinary lady who lives in New Jersey with her husband, one grown and two almost grown daughters, and their beloved dog and cat.
RubyJean’s mom lives with the family, too. Their house is a bit too small for all these people! It is filled with an eclectic (if you’re being nice about it) set of new and second hand furniture, prints, paintings, kitch, African art, child art, a lot of photographs, dog hair and laundry. The dog hair is kept at bay with a powerful vacuum that recently broke. The laundry is kept at bay by a once powerful washing machine that, like it’s many predecessors, is about to give up completely. No washing machine should have to go through the trauma that RubyJean’s family puts it through.

But wait…there’s more. RubyJean is a vain woman. She feels creative stirrings now and then to Do Something, but what? For years, actually, her whole life, she has worked. She does okay in her job, but it is not really a career. She’s 45 and never made that decision about what she wanted to be when she grew up. So, life happened.

The children are wondeful and perfect and beautiful and smart, and occasionally horrible too. Nice to know they’re normal human beings. Neil is a beautiful person inside and out, although for some reason, he is often in RubyJean’s bad books! And then there’s Gran. RubyJean loves Gran very much, but that’s a story for a whole ‘nother blog.