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The web has a number of Rebecca Allens. I am The Poster Formerly Known As Rebecca LeAnn Smit Crowley, resident of Acton, Massachusetts, former rabster, ex-software engineer, amateur genealogist, blogger, etc. I used to work at DECwest, Spry, and Amazon.com, and was briefly on the Library Board of Trustees in Brookline, NH. I have lived in Shoreline, Washington and Seattle. I attended the University of Washington, Computer Science. I've been to visit family in Friesland, including a brief visit to the church in Achlum. I have a lot of Mennonite relatives in Canada. Lots and lots of Dutch people in my ancestry. Names like Poldervaart.
Long, long ago, I had a web page. It had a searchable catalog of my library, three years worth of book reviews, a resume, notes on a number of projects I was working on or had recently worked on and my first faint efforts at an online cookbook. I wanted to be able to refer to stuff I couldn't quite remember, no matter where I was, and be able to easily refer people to certain kinds of information. That web page went away, due in part to being really busy for a couple years and in part due to an unreliable host. Thanks to The Internet Wayback Machine, I got some of that website back and have been adding to it ever since. I've maintained very partial versions of a cookbook, advice on relationships, travel notes and book reviews, and added sections on parenting and bicycles.
Roland is a Member of Technical Staff at AMD. I'm not sure when we will next be visiting Seattle. If you miss us, you should come visit us. We have plenty of room for guests, bikes to borrow and are within walking distance of the train to Boston.
Here are some other places to find me on the web:
Photos of people other than me, with a few exceptions, are private. The publicly visible photos are mostly from travel/hiking I did prior to the kids. I'm working on putting together some sets/collections/galleries so you can find things that are actually interesting, as opposed to an undifferentiated, minimally tagged Photostream.
Not the original catalog from way back when, but better. However, somewhat out of date, in part due to a switch to ebooks and associated reliance on Amazon to remember my library for me.
Daily activities, book and other reviews, some geneablogging, news commentary (particularly the transition to ebooks), Obsessive Interest of the Moment, etc.
It's locked down pretty hard so you'll have to friend me to see anything.
Roland and I not only have children, we are tenth-ish cousins, so it's a shared tree.
Primarily a contemporary supernatural fantasy novel set in a small town called Shadowsbrook which is a joint effort with my walking partner, but there are and will likely continue to be other short fiction as well. If you want to read Shadowsbrook from the beginning, you'll need to pick the Shadowsbrook tag, go to the earliest post, and navigate forward from there, or you'll wind up reading it backwards.
I did NaNoWriMo in 2009, cheating slightly by writing autobiographical fiction that isn't, strictly speaking, fictional.
I put together some cheat sheets to help me survive some of the turmoil while I was a Trustee. These sheets would be of very limited utility outside New Hampshire, or for groups which have adopted a different parliamentary authority.
Spot a broken link or other problem? E-mail me. Have fun.
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Copyright Rebecca Allen, 2004.
Created: January 16, 2002 Updated: July 19, 2013 Updated: December 31, 2019 (LJ switched to DW)