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Deborah Sherman de Santos - Creator and Author

That would be me! I'm a 59-year-old mother with an attitude. Just ask my kids, all grown except for our 16-year-old son, Naji, who is presently being home-schooled. I was raised in an exceedingly abnormal family and found early on that trying to follow the crowd was a hopeless pursuit, so I learned to question everything, and look for answers everywhere. Growing up as a bright, rather uncoordinated oddball with a "wrong" last name in an area with little tolerance for differences in any form taught me the reality of mental pain. The choices that left me were simple. I could succumb and become part of the vast network of victims perpetually looking for comfort or I could say, "screw it" and find my own way. I chose the latter and the resulting journey has been brutally hard, but never dull. Ignorance, hate and mediocrity, the three sisters of mass delusion, have been my biggest stumbling blocks. The knowledge, love and greatness of the individuals I have met along the way have been my comfort and salvation. It is for them that I write- to return the favor.

Edgar de Santos - Author

Yup, that's my dad. He never let me forget while I was growing up that I was somebody special. Every child deserves to have someone who thinks they are something special - and expect them to act accordingly. When circumstances seemed unbearable he did not give me sympathy, he suggested solutions. His life was a hard one, but he always had a ready smile and a bounce in his step. He was still a swinger of birches at 50 years old. He died in 1990, but he left behind the house and valley that he loved to roam and all his writing as well as a huge library of books, complete with hundreds of bookmarks and notations for anyone who wished to continue where he left off. His favorite sayings were, "I doubt, therefore I am," and, "God must have hated the common man because he made him so God damn common!" He did not suffer fools gladly, but he had the biggest heart of any man alive. He never saw any individual as truly common. He would frequently admonish me that being nice and being kind were not always the same thing and when the two diverged one should choose kindness. He always did.

Regan Pride - Webmaster

Regan is the patience behind the action around here. He is also my husband, which would make him one patient hombre. He grew up in Los Angeles and his original area of expertise is as an aerospace engineer. A move to New Hampshire required a great deal of adaptability on his part - not a lot of aerospace out here, but he has been more than equal to the challenges. In fact, I sometimes accuse him of being a closet New Englander. Computers actually make sense to Regan, and he is wonderfully gifted at making them behave and make sense to the rest of us.