fannishliss

I was brought up on a farm in rural West Virginia, as an eighth-generation West Virginian.   We didn't have a lot of money but we had a lot of resources and were well-educated.  As a result my class origins are pretty strange for an American.  I have the relationship to money that someone who's never had it, has. Yet I have the orientation towards non-profit and charitable work of someone from a much higher socio-economic class. I have done manual labor...  but now work in the artists and thinkers class, as an editor, arts programmer, music teacher, and performer.