About Me

Greetings and salutations! My name is Frema. Well, not really, but it is my nickname, pegged by some friends from college, and I like it, so Frema it is. And what you're lookin' at just happens to be me.

Originally from Chicago, I currently live in central Indiana with my husband, Luke, and an overactive inner monologue that believes Kiefer Sutherland has the sexiest voice alive, seafood is the curse of the Devil, and Flowers in the Attic is one of the most underrated series in all of literature.

I started blogging in 2004 as an on-going assigment for an autobiography course I took in graduate school, and I loved it so much that I registered for a Blogger account. By fall of 2006, my credit card and I succumbed to the seductive options available through TypePad. My passion for this still-new art form was rewarded in 2007 with an invitation to teach a course for my undergraduate alma mater. Adjunct professoring definitely didn't come naturally to me, but there were reading assignments and quizzes and papers, so my students probably learned something, right?

There have been several weekly columns hosted on this site:

Weight Loss Wednesday: An on-going record of my progress with healthy eating and the scale. I'm still determined to drop some weight, but I've realized I need to do it more quietly. Posting my number four times a month was supposed to embarrass me into healthy living; instead, it just embarrassed me. Time to try something new.

Tragic Love Friday: The online record of Love, Betrayal and a Baby, a baby-momma drama I wrote in high school. I began sharing the fruits of my teenage labor during NaBloPoMo in 2006, complete with commentary on lil' Frema's writing style, and finished posting the sequel in August 2007. Initially, there was talk of a reader-centric Part III, but when push came to shove, the bulk of the writing fell on my shoulders, and I never found the time. I collected tons of ideas, though, so there's a good chance I'll do more with this one day. Just not today.

(For an Idiot's Guide to part one, provided by my fabulous TLF readers, click here. For a synopsis of part two, click here.)

Brain Fest Friday: Where I tried to post funny and thought-provoking questions and solicit responses from readers. It was fun in the beginning but only took a couple of months to feel very forced on my end, which duh, because the only reason I invented Brain Fest Friday was to have something to post in between installments of TLF. These entries now live in the Brain Food and Internet Shenanigans archives.

As you can see, I used to be obsessed with quirky blog features. Now I focus on writing when it means something to me and hope that happens more than once a week.

Lastly, I recently joined the ranks of motherhood. My daughter, Kara Leigh, was born on December 17, 2007, and besides Luke is the greatest joy of my life. When I'm not bragging about her here, you can find me making grand pronouncements at my other site for Parents.com, Parental Discretion Advised, which I'm contractually obligated to post to three times a week. Since that's a gig I actually include on my resume, you'll rarely (if ever) see mention of my Frema alias.

I love All My Children, young adult literature, pens, kicky shoes, spinach dip, "your mom" jokes, cheesy love songs, Dear Abby, personal finance and the "you go, girl" attitude of Suze Orman, pedicures, Clinique, the color green, Peace Frog pajama gear, Lost, and most of NBC's Thursday night line-up. I'm easily confused by religion, sex, politics, and America's obsession with Dancing with the Stars. I hate my pooch. No, I don't mean my dog.

To get a better feel for how I roll, check out my 100 things list. Even though it's almost three years old. Whoops.

You've been sufficiently warned.