About Me
I’m a systems librarian with a husband, two kids, and a cat. I spend most of my spare time reading. My favorite genres are science fiction, fantasy, and mystery with an occasional romance book sprinkled in for variety.

I grew up on the internet back when we didn’t use “real” names so I go by Kiesa online. This was a name I thought I made up and I pronounce it Ki-essa.

I use she/her pronouns, mainly because I’m use to them.

About This Blog
The purpose of this blog is to keep family and friends informed about my life and interests as well as to double as a personal journal (albeit one the entire world can read). Most of my posts are written for a very limited audience and will bore the vast majority of people on the internet.

Comment Policy
I reserve the right to disallow or remove any comments submitted to this blog. The types of comments that may be disallowed/removed include, but are not limited to, comments that are abusive, upsetting, inappropriate, off-topic, or spam.

Most comments will automatically go to moderation. This does not mean your comment will not appear, it just means that I have to notice they’re sitting in moderation which may take a couple of days (usually I get one or two real comments a year).

Social Media
I’m not a heavy social media user but I do have two Mastodon accounts: one primarily geared toward family and one for everyone else.

@kiesa@octodon.social was setup as a replacement for my old Twitter account. I tried to make it as straight forward as possible for my family to read. Among other things, this means there are no content warnings. This server is going away on 2025-04-03 so as of November 29, 2024 this account moved to @kiesa@sfba.social.

@kiesa@wandering.shop is my primary Mastodon account and the one I’m most active on. I’ve been on it since 2017 and use the content warning feature liberally, often as subjects. Most posts are unlisted unless I’m talking about books. I like a fairly quiet feed so I follow a relatively small number of people.