pseudonym
Definition: | false name |
Synonyms: | AKA, alias, ananym, anonym, assumed name, handle*, incognito*, nickname, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pen name, professional name, stage name, summer name |
Notes: | an allonym is a pen name that is borrowed, not made-up like a pseudonym |
Antonyms: | name |
The time has come. For three years I have blogged and doodled under (and behind) the pseudonym ybonesy. When we started, the alias was for protection; we didn’t know what kind of weirdos might read the blog. (Now we know, and I’m pretty sure I can best any of ’em. Well, except for one, and she knows who she is.)
The nom de plume served me in other ways. It made me freer than I might have been early on in my writing. It’s strange sending your words out into the ether of the Internet. There were times when I thought, Well, no one gives a damn about turkeys who mate on the patio, or a snake who bathes, or my stress incontinence, but who cares? No one knows it’s me!
OK, I exaggerate. There were enough friends and family who knew it was me such that I was never truly anonymous. And I knew the kinky among you would appreciate turkey sex, wet snakes, and bed-wetting. (Going back to read that one, are you?)
But I’m ready to merge. I’m already a Gemini; having a pseudonym is like being four people. ybonesy has become me and I have become ybonesy. Time to take off the mask.
first, the facts
My name is Roma Arellano. I’m married to Jim. My daughters are not really Dee and Em, but since they’re not old enough to choose to go public, we’ll keep calling them Dee and Em. Sony the Pug, Baby the Bullsnake, Otis, and Rafael have used their real names from the beginning. They can all bite; thus, they never have worried about protection.
I work in high-tech. I love my job. I used to be a workaholic. It took almost burning out to finally figure out how to work and write in the same lifetime. My other big accomplishment is that I haven’t puked since I was 11; I’m now 48. I have emetophobia, so called because those who suffer are afraid of others emeto-ing all over us. Other than that, I’m like any other corporate writing painting wife mother blogger.
next, the hair
Why did God give us hair anyway? Didn’t he realize we’d figure out how to knit? I have the worst hair. One hairdresser used to call it Schnauzer fur. Then I’d pay him $85 to turn me into a retriever.
Long? Short? You get to decide which is better. Voting is anonymous, or you can vote using your pseudonym. I will not be crushed and depressed for two weeks if you hate my new hair. (After all, I still have my no-puke streak, and you can’t take that away from me.)
BEFORE: Looking like a raptor that just spotted a mouse in a field.
AFTER: Aw, I am so shy. Haven’t I proven myself to be shy?
lastly, the stuff
The biggest reason for taking off the mask is that I’m selling my goods and I want to claim them as my own. Part of embracing myself as a creative being is embracing my creations. So instead of ybonesy being my pseudonym, ybonesy is my muse.
And it’s the name of my new Etsy shop. If you haven’t heard about Etsy, it is “your place to buy and sell all things handmade.” You’ll need an Etsy account to buy there, but you will find great items from so many different vendors that it’s worth the trouble setting up an account.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/romaarellano
Wallinga Design, the same graphic design company that created the red Ravine logo, also created my new logo. Professional people and fun to work with. We were aiming for something quirky, bold, emetophobic. Wow, you’re still paying attention?
If you have any questions about my shop, you can ask them here. I have more items to add, and more to make. Keep checking in. I haven’t made a sale yet. I might just shave my head when I do make one.
epilogue
If you want to keep calling me ybonesy or yb, that works for me. Or you can call me Roma. Or you can call me Emeto-dork. Or just dork.
QuoinMonkey, who I fondly call QM, is not taking off her mask right away. But eventually, and she doesn’t look anything like a hawk going in for the kill.
OK. All done now. This feels good.
See? I told you I was a dork.
I like your blouse. :p
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Thanks. I got it at Dillards for 70% off, and it was new but returned, so I’m not sure why they had discounted it. I love Dillards’ 70% off sales.
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I don’t care about long or short. The main thing, Emeto-dork, is that you look happy! It’s about damned time you dropped the anonymity! Freeing, isn’t it? 🙂
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It is freeing. Funny how that switched. Blogging under a pseudonym was freeing for a while, but now this feels right to me.
I was thinking, most of our blogging friends who are poets, painters, and other folks regularly putting their work out there, blog under their real names and have since we’ve known them. I think the pseudonym served its purpose, but once I became serious about getting my works out there, I needed to claim my identity.
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Oh, that reminds me, Sam, I often smile big when I take a photo. I had a drivers license photo like that when I was in my mid-20s, and after living in Spain for a year and getting disillusioned by what I was doing there, a friend noticed my drivers license and said, You’ve got to return to the US. You were so happy then and so unhappy now. He was right.
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Hi, Roma, well done!
Scary to go naked, no?
I’m kind of doing that with this latest film and our growing social media presence, just stripping right down to the bone it feels like sometimes.
So far so good.
Love the new logo and the short hair!
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Nice to meet you. Really.
I joined a writers group recently and was added to their website. Some clicked on my blog and asked if it was the right one. For many blogging buddies I am only Anhinga, but the writing group is a place “where everybody knows your name.” What to do, what to do. I’ll follow you to see how it works out. Have already followed your Twitter links to your charming jewelry. Best of luck with that.
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Roma,
It is good to see you make this step. I remember earlier blogs about maintaining anonymous to the world when I started blogging. At the time I felt it gave a sense of security like a cocoon allowing me to have my opinions read without the filters we apply to those we know. I think this is the next step in the blogging evolution.
It is good to see that this is a freeing experience because I know how you struggled with making this step at times. I am proud of you and love the pictures. As for the hair, I love it the way it is now but I don’t have a reference for when it was longer.
Congratulations on your new store, I am so happy you did this because I was feeling a little sad that I wasn’t closer so I could have attended the art festival.
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I didn’t see many pix of you with long hair, but I like the short, pixie do. Of course, I am a short hair fan personally, so that may sway me. I am hoping with the leader, Anna, on the new V show sporting a short sexy do, short hair will be back in vogue again. I think Halle Berry looks best in short as well. 🙂
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Adorable pictures! I love the hair both long and short.
So excited for you that you’re now selling your artwork and claiming your multiple identities. A new chapter!
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Hail and well met, Roma! The pictures are great and so is your short hair, which looks kicky and not at all like shaved Schauzer.
It is funny that you mention hair of dog. back in the time, when i kind of considered myself quite presentable, i went to an Italian hairdresser who riffled through my hair and then yelled out in Italian, “Heh, hair like a dog!” His brother came out from the back of the salon and they pawed me hair, sort of like judges examining a breed dog. It was weird and funny.
Going to check out your Etsy shop and look for treasures.
I still want to call you Ybonesy, tho – that is a catchy pseudonym. G
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Woohoo!! Love to really “see” you! What a awesome, life loving grin you have 😉
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Roma!
Delightful.
You look exactly as I pictured you from your avatar except the part where you have beautiful skin and lovely hair!
Your pendants and art are great on etsy by the way.
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Roma,
Roma, Roma, Roma! I’m glad I can use your real name. I’ve been paranoid a time or two that I’d outed you accidently by forgetting to call you ybonesy.
I hope that one necklace you posted is on Etsy. It’s mine.
See you in Albuquerque on Sunday!
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Roma: I long for your hair.
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Roma/ybonesy: Your haircut looks great!
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ybonesy, sounds like you’ve made two sales at your new store! Did you shave your head yet?
I like your hair short. But I also like it long. I think you need to give folks a better comparison photograph of you with the long hair. You look good, no matter what.
This is fun post. And a big step for red Ravine. Though you’ve been working up to it for some time. I’m a bit slower, but I won’t be too far behind. Though as we all know, I’m the Cancer turtle to your Gemini hare. (It’s a good balance, isn’t it.)
You are rocking on your art and it’s an inspiration. I feel so much gratitude every day that you’re my friend and blog partner on red Ravine. And that you are who you are. I look forward to seeing what develops this year. Congrats on the next steps in your journey.
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LOL. No, I haven’t shaved my head yet. But I will shave my legs soon as celebration. Ha!
Thanks, QM. You have been a great sounding board, talking with me about the timing and everything else. Now that it’s done, it doesn’t seem that big of a deal, but it *was* a big deal. And the fact that the store launch is a part of it. I’ve appreciated all your input on the store, as well. You’ve got a great eye. All those years now that we have, catching typos for one another.
I wish Etsy allowed much more in the way of HTML code. It’s so basic. I’m used to the creativity we have with WordPress. In Etsy, it’s all about the product, the price, and the photos. Hey, in Marketing, they call ’em the 4Ps: Product, Price, Placement, Promotion. At least, that’s what I remember from college. But my brain is rusty.
I do need to give a better depiction of long hair. I have a pic on my FB from when my hair was longer. I tell you, it doesn’t grow much past my shoulders. It does, but it curls so much that it doesn’t ever seem very long.
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BTW, QM, I just noticed all your tree photos on the sidebar. Those are beautiful. Is that GA at your uncle’s place?
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Thanks for all the comments, guys!
Teri, I made three of those necklaces and sold two at an art festival and gave one to a friend for her birthday. But I have everything to make more. It’s all just a matter of time. I doubt I’ll have one ready by the time you’re here, but now that the store is up, you can get one once I get a chance to make a couple more of them.
G., love your vivid description of the Italian who was fascinated by your dog hair. Ha!
Lesley, I think short hair is back. I know when I went to get my cut, there were so many short ‘dos to choose from. It’s not the best season for short, but it gives me an excuse to wear hats. 8)
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ybonesy, did you already sell the D.H. Lawrence chair? You just posted that and I clicked on the link just now and it’s sold out. Holy Cow!
Yep, on the sidebar, those are Georgia pines in my uncle’s back yard on Clark’s Hill Lake. My bedroom was up over the lake. And on the mornings when I got up early enough, I could catch the sunrise and fog rolling in from the change in temperature. Beautiful. Thanks for asking.
BTW, Georgia was so nice in the Fall compared to the humidity and heat of Summer. I had forgotten how beautiful Fall is there.
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I did the same thing, QM! I went to click on it. I had just posted it also to my FB account (gawd, my friends are probably thinking, Etsy has created a monster!) and it was gone. I think that was my last one of that one. But when time allows, I will make more.
QM, those shots are gorgeous. I love the changing colors of the lake and sky. Wow. They look so good in a row like that, almost like a film strip. You should post them in a blog post. I bet you wrote a haiku or fourteen inspired by the place. 8)
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anhinga, I wanted to say that I had seen your photo on one of our mutual friend’s FB page. I think it was stevo. I recognized you and I considered sending you a Friend request, but I wasn’t sure how you’d feel about going from being known as anhinga to being know by your name.
I do wonder how much the explosion of social networking sites, and especially those like FB or Etsy that have different purposes…how they are all intertwined…and whether this has something to do with my own decision to take off the mask. Having all these identities started to feel crazy-making, like I was becoming compartmentalized.
QM and I talked about that at length. These are interesting times.
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yb, I just saw that your tree of life piece is sold out, too. Yes? Wow, they are moving like hotcakes. Are you going to make more before the Holidays? I’m going to have to move a little faster on the purchasing. 8)
Oh, and thanks about the Georgia pine photos. That’s a good idea. Maybe I will do a blog post on them, filmstrip style. I’ve got a few more to release, too. I decided to post all my BlackBerry phone shots on Flickr. And I post them in the order I took them. It’s freeing. And fun. Those pine trees are phone shots.
These are interesting times. The social networking is exploding in so many ways. I’m the kind of person that dives into something fully, learns it, then goes into maintenance mode. I’m pretty close to a Facebook account. But I want to plan a little more and think about the integration pieces. Just me.
Personal branding is becoming so important. The logo you had done is great. Really fits you.
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I just sold another, QM. Wow, this is soooo fun! The Day of the Dead.
Hey, since Etsy doesn’t allow me to do my normal discounting (the pricing is just straight up for each item, so no way to discount the second or third one in the same purchase), I’m offering Buy 3 get one Scrabble tile free. I posted that on my shop, but I thought I’d do it here, too.
Yes, more will be coming. I’ll set aside time on Sunday, but they take a couple of days to cure. And I still have more inventory from the shows I did, although those are getting low. I have lots of domino collages and haven’t begun posting those but will start in the coming nights.
Oh, the tree shots are from the Blackberry!? Whoa! See? Many people say, I could take better shots if I had a professional camera! Hmph. Great photographers take great shots no matter the camera.
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yb, it’s encouraging and inspiring that your art is selling so well. I’m going to have to reserve a D.H. Lawrence chair and a tree of life in the future so I can buy them!
Yes, the one’s I’ve posted on Flickr so far are from the BlackBerry camera. I did take photos of Clarks Hill Lake and fog with my Canon G6 a couple of mornings. But I haven’t gone back and looked at them since I got home to see how they compare. Well, shucks, I sure appreciate your compliment on the photos. It can be the composition a lot of times that makes the shot. The eye of the photographer. Thank you! I did want to say, that with the camera phone, when I was in really bright light or taking photos at night, those two extremes, that’s when I noticed a difference between the BlackBerry camera and the larger format Canon G6. Then the G6 did a much better job. It seemed like with the fog photos that morning, the light was pretty even.
Hey, good buy on those, buy 3, 1 free. Hey, when you shot your photos for your store, did you shoot them in a smaller format? Or like regular photos? Just curious. What camera did you use? And what lighting?
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Come on Roma…the woman in the pics is 32 at best 😉
You are a beauty… but I knew that just from the way you make me laugh. Great short locks…you’d look good in big danglee earrings too… BTW…the more modern name for Dork (of which I am a VIP member) is “soup sandwich”. As we head into 2010, I feel the need to keep you up with the lingo. And I know perfectly well I’m “that weirdo” 😉
I’m coming out too. My name is really Ellsworth, I speak through a megaphone just to annoy people and I’m very hairy in places you can’t see… but wish you could.
OK QM…show us that blue hair!!!
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This unmasking, coming out of the closet thing is kind of unnerving, but I do feel that it has become almost a movement. I’m sure Facebook has a lot to do with it. There we all post whole names including maiden so family will recognize us. It’s as if we went from Victorian dress to standing naked in class–of course after we forgot to study for the test. I have a feeling I’m going to get used to it in increments. I remember feeling safe posting that tiny little avatar of my face until it appeared on certain blog templates blown up to billboard size. Or so it seemed.
But back to your mention of FB. I would be delighted to befriend you. Just remind me who you are when you send request. Meantime, I’ll try to remember Roma.
Congrats on your amazing sell out, too. I am not surprised.
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Ha ha! I just noticed that someone voted for my “What about the nose??” option.
I went into your Flickr account and Favorited those shots. I just love them. I love the gentle colors. I noticed that you said you couldn’t get the full frame with the Blackberry camera, so I suppose one of the differences with the Canon G6 is that you got the tops of the pines. Hey, those would make gorgeous note cards, if you decide to make any with your photos.
Lighting on my shots for Etsy? Well, very low-tech. This weekend I sat at the table next to the sliding glass door and waited until the east sun was no longer shining in. And then I used the natural lighting. It’s a very light and bright area without any artificial light. Some of the shots, depending on what else was in them, had to be adjusted. But very little overall. One shot, of the Dios Mio pendants, the morning sun was still pretty strong coming in. You can tell with that one that there is a shimmer of light in the background. I want to reshoot that one, since it is a little faded looking on account of the light.
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ROTFL…can we still use that, Ellsworth, or does it date us as being stuck in Jan of 2009 instead of Nov? OK, was it that easy to guess that you were THE weirdo I was talking about? 8) 8) LOL. And please, no shots of the hairy back! Unless it’s after you’ve allowed some tape sculpting.
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Hi YRoma
I do like your hair style now. However, I remember when you had long wavy gorgeous hair in high school and SF. I loved and envied (only a bit) your hair. Still, I like the look now. All hairstyles seem to fit you. I also like the pics of yourself, they are Roma at her best! LaNicia
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anhinga, your pseudonym is cool, btw. If you do start using your real name, I hope you’ll keep anhinga as well.
Yeah, it’s unnerving for sure, but I think of the truly courageous things people do each day, and then I realize, eh, it’s not all that big of a deal.
Hey, what’s your experience with FB been? Do you use it regularly? I know I do, but a few of my blogging friends don’t. Either that, or I’m not on their list that they publish to all the time. But I wonder if it all just becomes so overwhelming, esp when you’re trying to maintain a blog.
But I like FB. It’s a real mix of different things. Good links, family photos, mind flotsam and jetsam.
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LaNicia, me gusta how you came up with YRoma. If we say it in a good New Mexico accent, it’s EiiiRoma! You’re so hateful! 8)
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I’ll ever get those thick wavy hair days back. Hair today, gone tomorrow.
I have to tell you…my hairdresser said that one of her clients gets lasered off those little wispy fuzz hairs that some people grow at their hairlines. Isn’t that weird? I mean, the fuzz is annoying, I have it, but why would anyone take away hair when there’s really not that much to give up?? But maybe that person is hairier than me.
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YYYYYRoma – Yo no tiene polite que no?! Que lastima. LOL!
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I don’t think I could ever give up Anhinga. It’s me now. My real name would have to be lower case.
I didn’t know what I was getting into with FB, but have come to really enjoy it for the family and friends contacts mostly. It seems one-by-one people I have known throughout my life stroll in and make my acquaintance again as the more mature people we all are. It has been very rewarding to me. As for blogging buddies, I believe I have only one on FB and she had a hard time finding me. Perhaps that is key. We don’t know who we know. 🙂
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You are definitely not a dork! I like the hair but most of all, I like that you shed the YB when it was time, on your own terms. It’s good to see you and know who you are!
I love the etsy store. I’m waiting for you to add the ones I want! Although the addition of Dios Mio, I may just jump in and not wait for the others.
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Hey, Corina, if there’s one in particular that you’re interested in, let me know and I can see if I have it already made and then upload it. I love the Dios Mio, btw. I had to go in and rework the original doodle, as I have with several of them, to give them more contrast and depth. But that one came out nicely. It was one of my early ones, and I didn’t have a pencil with me when I started drawing the face, so I just used a pen. It’s a bit more raw than some of the later ones.
I like your description of FB, anhinga. Yes, these one-by-one connections. I look at my Friends and see people from seemingly separate phases in my life, from elementary school to now. I have a few friends who I met only through Flickr and/or blogging, and I so enjoy hearing what they’re up. They’re among the best at keeping their status updates current, probably because they’re used to being out in the broad internet.
Corina was fun to find on FB. I didn’t know her last name but saw on her own blog that she had posted pics from her trip on FB, and I wanted to see them! When I saw the FB photo, it was a different one, but I knew it was her when I saw that Stevo was a mutual friend. (That’s where Stevo came into the FB picture.)
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Hello, Roma! It’s nice to meet you and see you. 😀 And I don’t think you are a dork at all.
I’ve been out there anonymously and with my real name (both of my current blogs are under my real name). I have reasons for liking both, but prefer being just me, Robin.
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C. Who cares about the hair? I think you look cute in fact! 8) I love the “shy” and bathroom photo shots. Very cute.
And I think I’ll stick to yb. It has grown on me. I love the alias/muse name and it suits you. Thanks for the hilarious, unmasking post. This made my day. 🙂
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You are a beautiful person with long hair or short hair, but I voted for short in the survey. Hate those “either/or” surveys.
Haven’t been able to part with any of the pieces I bought. My friends keep asking when they receive their gifts from my last trip to Taos. I keep putting them off. Congratulations on the success on Etsy.
yb/Roma…Don’t know which I will use in the future. Have grown fond of yb and QM both. Aw well. Change: it keeps on coming.
Great “coming out” photos by the way.
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Hi Robin, A~Lotus, Bob. yb works, yb/Roma is fine.
Bob, you crack me up, hanging on to your pendants. You knew exactly which ones you wanted. I love that kind of decision-making. Do you always know what you want when you see it? I tend to. But when given the option to choose more than one thing, it’s the third or fourth or fifth that I start to hedge on. The first and second, though, I always know.
A~Lotus, yours is a wonder alias as well. I imagine it has important connection to your heritage. But maybe that’s just me thinking it has that meaning.
Robin, you strike a balance between what to reveal and what not to reveal. We get to see photos of your son’s wedding, yet I know husband as M. It seems like an appropriate amount of knowing for the internet.
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There you are! You look awesome both ways. I like the feminine feel of long hair, but it can be a real drag. Your face is so expressive! I knew it would be, though I had a little bit different idea in my head. You’re a total cutie-patootie. (But I won’t call you that)
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Wow!… I mean… (The Deist jumps around all giddy) WOW!!!
just…
Wow!!!
I second what Am just said, I did picture you a little differently and you are oh, so a cutie puhtootie. Knew you would be though, you’ve got such beautimous toes!… how could you not be? : )
When I revealed my name and identity, it was kinda like what you said about afterwards not being really a big deal but yet it “was” a big deal.
Nice to meet you, Roma!
~jules
p.s. i can’t remember the last time I threw up. I think I was in my 30s. Not nearly as long a streak as you being that I’m 42.
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Hey Roma! Great to see you – the real you- again, if only in photo form. I loved this post, very funny! I think it’s great you’ve revealed your true identify. You’re a talented artist and you deserve to claim your many creations under your true name. I believe you when you say you can handle whatever the cyber-aliens throw your way.
I voted for your hair short because it’s very cute but I remember how it was in the Zendo – a curly cloud that I would occasionally glance over at and envy. Me with my straight-like-wire hair. My hair dresser tsk-tsks over my head whenever she has it in her hands. “Tsk-tsk-tsk, what thick stubborn hair you have. Who in your family was Native American?” (alas, no one) I would have given my teeth (well, maybe just a few of them) to have hair like yours when I was younger. As it was, I spent hours and many dollars getting big huge perms in the 70’s and 80’s.
Are we never satisfied with what we’re born with?
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Dork? You’re gorgeous. And while I generally LOVE long curly hair, if you’re just going to pull it back, then I say cut it. Then you can have the look without the bother.
Welcome to being out in the world. It’s a scary place, but at least thus far has proved safe for me.
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Thanks, J. I think it’s generally pretty hard to have healthy long curly hair when you hit menopause. Curly hair is already usually dry. But you know, if I would have been better about using hair product, as they call it, I could do longer hair. I just don’t have the time, truly, to maintain longer hair.
Jude, we are never satisfied with what we have. It’s human nature. But there’s also goodness in that. It keeps us moving, changing, inventing. YOU have great hair. I love straight hair. And you wear it well.
Aw, Julian and amuirin, you two are such adorable dweebs, I mean, peeps. 8) I am impressed with your no-puke streak, Julian. If you ever want to fly next to me on a plane, I’d be happy to have you as a plane-row mate. I appreciate any person who has a stomach of steel.
BTW, isn’t it funny how we have these mental pictures of people in our heads and how they are almost always pretty different from reality? Same thing happens with phone. It’s normal for me to talk to some work colleagues for a long time, sometimes I’ll have known them for years by voice only from phone meetings, and when we meet, they almost always look so different than I imagined. But then almost instantly, seconds later, their faces fit their voices.
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You are everything I imagined. I’ve been away visiting family & today was my first chance to check the blog in a week. QM told me that you would be coming out soon, so I was really looking forward to this. I must say you crack me up!Of course I had seen your photos on FB, so I already knew how darn cute you are! I voted for the short hair. It looks great & much easier to care for!
Love the Etsy shop! I’m gonna have to take some time & check out all of your links.
Also, if you are a dork, you’re my kinda dork! 🙂
Great job, Roma! D
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yb: I have sprinkled my real name here and there on the net. Some people know it, others don’t. Over the years, I have revealed a bit about myself but still prefer to distance myself from writing if that makes any sense. I run into many people out there who think that what a poet writes has happened to the poet when in actuality, whatever the event is–it has not happened personally to the poet. So, I like signing my name with an pseudonym. It makes things easier that way for me. However, I do put my real name on my profile page (sometimes) as I always invite readers to get to know me. 8)
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P.S. Yes, my pseudonym has a bit to do with my culture as well as my personality. 😉
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Late chipping in here as I’ve been off-line for awhile but…
Hiya Roma!!! I love it when people decide to reveal themselves to their readers. Nice to see you!! Like others have said you have a very cute and expressive face. The short haircut suits you (tho I usually prefer longer hair). Short likely works better in New Mexico’s heat.
Best of luck with your sales venture. You have some wonderful creations that people are going to love possessing.
Hmmm… stick with yb or switch to yRoma?? Time will tell.
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Thanks, Norm, for chipping in. I know you’ve had other things to occupy your time versus commenting on friends’ blogs, so I do appreciate you taking the time. 🙂
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5 stars on the last pic.
Wow Roma letting it all out, i must say i have been reading for a while, but have never responded, thought if you were taking a leap of faith i would too. 😀
😉
PS : I LOVE YOUR BLOG!! 😉
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Howdy WSD. Glad you took the leap. 8)
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[…] yo, ybonesy! ybonesy takes off her mask to unveil her Etsy store, featuring these new items: daily haiku Post Yours Here guest writers & featured artists Buzz – November 2009 Michelle McCaulley – October 2009 Bob Chrisman – October 2009 Patricia Anders – October 2009 Anonymous – October 2009 Eileen Malone – October 2009 Charis Fleming – October 2009 Jill L. Ferguson – October 2009 Barbara Rick – September 2009 Bob Chrisman – September 2009 Bob Chrisman – August 2009 Louis Robertson – July 2009 Barbara Rick – June 2009 Cathy Wysocki – May 2009 Teri Blair – April 2009 Lesley A. Goddin – April 2009 Bob Chrisman – March 2009 Elizabeth Statmore – March 2009 Linda Weissinger Lupowitz – February 2009 CONTRIBUTORS sloWalker Guestwriter Guestartist poets & poems Keep Poetry Alive! _______________________ […]
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[…] your resin on (three), new resin bracelets by Roma Arellano (aka ybonesy), all photos © 2009 by ybonesy. All rights […]
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Although it’s one that I’ve had for a while, I only now got around to adding my Halloween/Day-of-the-Dead inspired pendant called Taking Jack to the Cemetery to my Etsy shop.
BTW, QM, I had to de-list my Giants Sat Here. I sold out on it during the holidays. I sold out on a lot of inventory, in fact, which feels good, but still. I had said I’d set one aside for you. But I will make new ones of that design later in the month, or in February.
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[…] Luc, learned how to make jewelry from my doodles, did two art shows in the Fall, and set up a small Etsy shop this past […]
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I have some pendants on my etsy shop that I had previously sold out on.
I just listed the Evil Eye Deflector in Mah Jongg tile size:
QM, I made a couple of new Giants Sat Here pendants on Tile Rummy size:
And I listed the new Owl Pendant on Tile Rummy:
More this weekend, I hope.
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yb, OMG, I just saw your comment and went into your ybonesy Etsy shop to buy it! One D.H. Lawrence Giants Sat Here was already sold out so I quickly dashed and snapped up the other one! You now have ZERO Giants Sat Here pendants and I am the proud owner of one of my fave pieces of art from ybonesy. Thanks for letting me know! I can’t wait to wear it! (BTW, I love the owl pendant, too. And the Evil Eye.)
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Thanks, QM! I’ll get that ready to send to you early next week. I hope you like it. Let me know which other one you like best and I’ll give it to you for your birthday.
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[…] Our address is 4605 Corrales Road. You can see more of John’s and Mary’s art there, and my own. You can learn about Movement Studios and the classes that happen there when we’re not […]
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[…] #26, and #27 on the studio tour map). You can see more of John’s and Mary’s art, and my own. You can learn about Movement Studios and the classes that happen there when we’re not […]
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I can’t wait to get a package from you, yb! I’m dying to know how those pendants/necklaces are like! 8)
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Hi A~Lotus, you are so awesome and wonderful and cool! I am grateful for your support. I sent you a note today about the package, which will come in two waves. Ah, thanks again. 8)
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[…] started a fledging business because of the creativity that flowed out, thanks to red Ravine. Because of this blog I’ve […]
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[…] it is with great humility that I embrace the unknown and begin again. I will miss ybonesy and her free spirited and vibrant creative fire on a daily basis at red Ravine, but I know I have to face forward. It’s one of the things she […]
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All the way from Australia and over a year or may two too late, I’m pleased to meet you ybonesy, Roma.
I found you via your post on Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy, the ant and the grasshopper. What a pleasure it is to meet you, assuming you’re still around.
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Hi Elisabeth. I love how you spell your name, btw.
No, never too late. Although I’m no longer a partner here on red Ravine, I am still a member of the community and a good friend of QuoinMonkey, who keeps the blog going.
Glad to know that you found the Ant and Grasshopper post. That was a fun post to write. It took a long time for me to do it, but I so loved the books that each of the authors had written, and I got a lot out of reading them back-to-back.
Pleasure to meet you, too. Thanks for dropping a note, and hope you’ll stop in again to red Ravine.
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