Hey Caroline - I have no idea where Chris1 is.. I just always favor even numbers for some reason. Chris was taken so I threw on the 2

I checked the link you gave, and yes, I'm toying around with ideas about avatars and "obscure photos" as Lynn mentioned. I feel like that issue will now be easily resolved thanks to the group here! (Thanks All!) I'm actually trying to figure out where I can get a real Zebra for about 15 minutes to shoot some photos of me (only the back of my head) with a live zebra to use on my site... could be interesting! Since I don't know any zebras personally, I'll probably end up using a photo or avatar-like zebra though.

Regarding identity - What is so maddening is that I'm not a complicated person and try very hard to be as real as I can in every aspect of my life, but where this and my mom's situation is concerned, I have no choice but to make all this way harder than it should be. I feel like I'm creating "drama" of something that should be stupidly simple (a name, for crying out loud). Unfortunately, it's necessary.

The good thing is, as I mentioned earlier, is that my mom and the people that know her (including my own relatives) don't have a clue about what my life has been for the last 12 years, or who I have become in that time. So I feel like I can share on my "about" page details about myself and my life that will not reveal my identity to these people at all. This will allow my site readers/visitors to know a bit about me in order to feel like I'm a real person, with real stories and a valuable message to share with them.

As for videos, what can you tell me about the voice recognition thing? I'm intrigued! Do you mean that there is software that I can use that would alter my voice (hopefully without sounding like it was altered)? Can a techno-idiot (like me) run the software?

Just so you know, I won't be doing videos anytime soon (I have no webcam and no other equipment to shoot videos with right now) but I do want to be heading in that direction by learning a bit about what I'll need to do.

Don't worry about the mic thing.. hey, I've never even used it so.. you're ahead of me!

Take care!