I'm very happy to have landed in the Gulch... in fact, I've been here a long time already. My 20-hour workdays don't often allow more active participation. I've been designing and making intellectual games and puzzles ("gamepuzzles") for 35 years, hence my "puzzlelady" moniker. I am also an editor/proofreader on the side.

I've been in Objectivism since 1958. I met Ayn Rand in 1965 at a lecture series. My interest in human consciousness--thoughts, ideas, reality and replication--has led to my developing an original meme theory (book in the making), and my other nicknames are Memehunter and Mind Junkie.

Memes are a key to why people so often disagree, sometimes to bloody extremes, and why some folks online just can't seem to resist calling each other names and putting each other down instead of examining their differences objectively and collaborating for mutual benefit. After all, as our greatest teacher pointed out, there are no conflicts of interest between rational people. Now if we can just identify those psycho-epistemological commonalities, those unifying premises. Wouldn't it be great to achieve the next leap forward in human evolution in our lifetimes and banish force and fraud from human interactions forever?