Thank you to Robert Birming, for hosting this first ever Knowember, a way for bloggers to get to know one another.

A photo

Listening to the best man’s speech at our son’s wedding. He remembered eating a lot of soup at our house, when they and their buddies were in high school. I remembered the glorious moment I realized that you can feed a fair number of teenage boys with a big pot of soup.

Me, wearing sequins. Rare.

Name or nickname

My name is Anna, and most people call me Anna. My mother almost named me Katharine, so she often calls me “Katie.” I’m not sure why she didn’t name me Katharine (…or Catherine, or Katherine, or…) Katharine is a great name, except for all the spelling variants. But Anna is much easier to spell, plus the letters are reversible in case one side wears out; so there’s that.

I have names I almost named my kids, as well.

Where in the world I blog from

Inspired by annie’s existential angle, I blog from the compulsion to make things, especially things made in writing.

🇺🇸 And also I blog from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia. When I was a child, I lived in the Colorado Rockies, so it is hard for me to think of East Coast mountains as serious mountains, but they can definitely block GPS signals. Plus, there are some great wineries around here.

What my blog is mostly about

Oh, goodness. I have three. For the last year I haven’t been doing much public writing, but am trying to get back to it.

This one, annarama.net, is what I think of as the “chit-chat” blog. Cat pictures. Miscellaneous thoughts and quotes. Things that amuse me.

I write about what we can learn from intentional communities about organization, productivity, and taking real time off at annahavron.com. Sometimes I write more personal essays there as well.

My other blog is analogoffice.net. I write here about thinking and organizing with paper-based tools and systems. Office supplies! Pocket notebooks! Things to do with them all! I also occasionally post recordings of old school office machines.