Anniversary

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Lorraine is gone for the summer and I am going to miss her terribly during this hiatus; even though I am also excited that she's on such a creative high that needs to be taken care of NOW. It's the kind of rushes a lot of us creatives get in fits and spurts --and it makes us jelous when others find the key to turning it into a test of endurance. I'd love to have one of those long distance writing moments over my kabillion writing sprints, anytime.

Yet, Lorraine's hiatus got me thinking again of how long I have been at this thing here called culturekitchen.

I went through my records and found out that I got the domain back on December 21st of 2000. Once I put a little page up with the name while I contended with breastfeeding and terrible twos tantrums.

Sometime in the Spring of 2001 I already had put some stuff up --I was working on a couple of website projects at the time and so did it during ebbs of my consulting flow. This, by the way, while I also accepted a job as a technical writer --and yes, I was still breastfeeding.

2001 proved to be a banner year for us here in more ways than one. I quite my job because the cost of going back to work in hard money was far greater than my staying at home with the kids. My body also had not healed from the multiple injuries and ruptures I suffered while giving birth to my little one.

2000 had proven good to us in terms of art funding. Napier had gotten funding from Creative Capital as well as grants from the Jerome Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA, and other sources as well as privite collectors comissions --not the least in part to the great advice we got from Kathy Brew, the woman who used her position at the Lower Manhattan Culture Council to bring digital and netart to the attention of the New York art scene.

Then the world changed on September 11, 2001.