Bonjour! My name is Robyn O’Rourke Pollman and I’m a SAHM (a.k.a. “girl of reduced social responsibility“) -and- un connaisseur de vernis à ongles. I consider myself one of the top yoga pant and ironic t-shirt domestic fashion influencers (‘45-54‘ category) in New England. I’m currently living out my Gilmore Girls real-life fantasy in Stars Hollow, CT, following an almost 25-year long detour in Tampa/Orlando and Atlanta after leaving Oklahoma.

I served as an unwitting Chinese Drywall home product tester from 2007-2010 and then subsequently became an involuntary medical trial & research subject from 2010-present.

My hobbies include photography, cooking, collecting tick-bourne illnesses, dusting the house in my tiara, the OU Sooners and Tampa Bay Bucs football teams, the UConn men and women’s basketball teams, UConn football and hockey, and hoarding cosmetics and pretty packaging supplies. (Not necessarily in that order.)

I have a passion for politics, the inability to return e-mails in a timely manner, and an irrational fear of mariachi bands that dates back to childhood.

I was the type of ‘mom-to-be’ that not only played classical music, but also Weezer, to my sons in utero. You know, for balance. Last but not least, I now consistently achieve a SleepIQ™ Score of under 40.

You may have known / followed me during my almost-25 years of former online lives at WhollyMatrimony.com, blogblogbaby.com/tampatantrum.com (“Aint too proud to blog”), as ‘shutterblog’ at shutterblog.com, Professional Photographer Magazine, Flickr, Twitter, buttonsandbowsphotography.com, paperieboutique.com, ATLanticipation.com, and/or as the founder of the Blogger Boobie-Thon charity drive.

My former blogs were featured in 2007’s “The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging with Moxie“ and I co-wrote Chapter 15 on blogging in “Online! The Book” by Dvorak & Pirillo.

Still dying to know more about my life online? Fortunately I made a whole post about that very thing!

“Are you what you are, or what?” —Edie Brickell