About Me

Ellen Keim (Miteypen)

Ten things about me (not in order of importance):

• I am a mother of four and grandmother of one.
• I am married to a German citizen I met on the Internet.
• I am fourteen years older than my husband.
• I am a recent convert to Islam.
• I earned my bachelor’s degree when I was 53.
• I have been a feminist since 1971.
• I am a writer.
• I was a Hillary supporter who ended up voting for Obama.
• I am (slowly) learning Arabic and German.
• I live in the inner city.

It’s hard for me to believe but I’ve been around for over half a century. Born only seven years after the end of World War II, I’ve lived through the Civil Rights and Women’s Liberation Movements, the assassinations of two Kennedys and Martin Luther King (as well as John Lennon), the Korean and Vietnam wars, Watergate and the resignation of a President, the first venture into space and the first walk on the moon, Marilyn Monroe and Twiggy, the fall of the USSR and the Berlin Wall, the advent of the Internet and the personal computer (not to mention DVDs and cell phones)—well, you get the drift.

I like to think that I’ve learned a few things along the way, things that inform the way I see the world and process information. I hope to incorporate my experiences and whatever wisdom I possess into the content of this blog.