Since I'm using the cover of one of Julie Schumacher's great novels for this post, I'm linking to her web site here.  You can also find her bio and  more of her great books by clicking on the image itself.   If you're a creative writer, you might also think about sending your work to the r.kv.r.y. quarterly literary journal, for which I serve as Editor-in-Chief, website designer, manuscript reader and chief bottle washer.

Introductions over, welcome to memetag.

A memetag is the blogosphere's equivalent of a chain letter. It requires a blogger to request another blogger to post on a particular topic.  This memtag post is Five Things You Didn't Know About Me.  The tagged recipient must "tag" others to pass it along.

No dire warnings of misfortune or promises of great wealth accompany these requests.  They are their own reward.

This memetag comes from my blogging mentor, Diane Levin at the Online Guide to Mediation.  Diane asks.  I cannot say "no."

Five Things You Don't Know About Me MemeTag Post

I'm teaching an employment ADR course at the Straus Institute, Pepperdine University School of Law this semester with master employment mediator Stefan Mason.  One of the class assignments is to write regular self-reflective journal entries on employment issues.  

I am journaling along with my students on the class ADR blog .  The linked One Page Identity Journal Assignment  requires the students to dig under the surface of their own experience and write about the way in which their identity is intertwined with their status as law students or lawyers, business people or teachers, writers, doctors, academics, etc. 

The journals are necessarily personal. I'm certain my entry includes at least five things you didn't know about me.

I tag Blaine Donais, Diana Skaggs,  and Paula Lowhon.