[taken from my site's "ABOUT" section:]

My name is Tracey Gaughran-Perez, formerly Tracey Gaughran, of the Jersey Gaughrans (screw those Pennsylvania Gaughrans! I spit on them!!). I am married to the utterly fabulous Jamie Gaughran-Perez, formerly Jamie Perez, of the Basque Saint Perezes (not the Hispanic Rosie Perezes, for those keeping score at home). We have a 3-year-old daughter, Mina, whose middle name is James, just to confuse you further.

Prior to engaging in all this nomenclature weirdness, I was a graduate student in English Literature...for most of my adult life. You know how it is -- you finish one degree and yet another beckons... Somewhere in there I also taught college English and Humanities at a bunch of places, worked as a writer for AARP (yes, the old people), wrote some poetry, toiled as a grunt in the online trenches, experimented with hair dyes, and lived a somewhat Holly Golightly-ish existence in both the wilds of Michigan and Washington, DC.

Then I got married and had a baby.

I now live in Charm City, USA (Baltimore, MD, to all you non-Hons out there), in a restored 1914 four-square located in the bestest neighborhood in the whole wide world, Lauraville. I presently stay at home with my daughter, aiding her in her daily efforts to cover every square inch of our television screen with crayon, remaining in my pure silk dressing gown all day long, sipping cocktails, eating bon-bons, and throwing back handfuls of valium.

My site, sweetney.com, chronicles my everyday existence, my desultory thoughts and compulsive obsessions, plus some random stuff I just happen to find interesting and/or amusing. i adore jon stewart, all things pirate-y, science geekery, elliott smith, and underdogs in all their various incarnations.