Introduction

Russian speakers will certainly recognize my last name. For their benefit I will tell you that yes, there was an actual person with this last name. Yes, he was my distant relative. And no, he was not a bookkeeper. From what I know, he was quite a respectable and educated man - nothing like bookkeeper Berlaga in the book.
For those of you who are not russian speakers and not familiar with "The golden calf", my name does not matter. I am simply a stay-home mom. I raise my two boys, ages 8 and 4, and sometimes I will write about what it's like. I have a bachelor degree in computer science. I used to work as a software engineer, and I liked it at first, and hated it at the end. I promised to never return to programming, and sometimes I will write about that too. My political views are conservative, and sometimes I will write about politics. I will write because I have always liked writing, but never got around to actually doing something about it.
When I was in college, there was no such thing as blogging, so I had to take three semesters of creative writing instead. I did not espesially like it. When I went to work, I had no time for writing - sometimes I did not even have time for anything, because I was working during the day and moonlighting at night. That was not fun either, but I needed the money. Then I had kids, and finding the time for writing (or sleeping, or taking a shower) became a problem again.
Now my kids are a little older and may even entertain each other for 10 minutes without starting a fight. My older son goes to school, and my younger one will start school in September, so I promise to devote some time to writing... unless I find a job that interests me.
Till next time,

--Tanya Berlaga