Who Am I?

Quick Note: I'm going to play a little catchup and do multiple articles in one day, but my goal is to post in this blog once a week.

Who am I?
I've always struggled with the idea of blogging because I never could figure out why anyone would bother to listen to what boils down to essentially my personal opinion on various issues.  However, I've been involved with Legend of the Five Rings for many years now and people seem to want to know, so I best start this blog for real with an explanation of who I am and how I relate to the community.

My name in real life is Jeanne Kalvar.  Professionally,  I'm a computer software designer and business systems analyst, though my background is in Geology, with an MS in Geology and twin BAs in Geology and English.  I'm a mother of three teenagers.  My husband, Shannon, is a Business Consultant, but he spent many years a Role Playing Game designer working for Mongoose and Fantasy Flight games. 

I first encountered Legend of the Five Rings in graduate school in 1995/1996, introduced by Brent Keith (Shosho, the Mujina Wrangler) who would go on to become Lead Designer for the CCG for a number of years.  I was adjacent to them until 1998, when I started a long term RPG, and then got involved with the community, writing a fan fiction, Makoto, that ended up creating quite a stir in the L5R community.  At a tournament in Toronto, the lead story writer, Ree Soesbee, granted me the title of Kenshinzen for winning the Honor award at a tournament, and I've been involved with L5R ever since, arranging community events, writing fan fictions, and basically trying to help out. 
I took  along break from about 2006 to 2012, but came back at the end of the CCG era to watch as it was ushered over to FFG, and been with the game since then. 
​I hope to see it move forward into whatever comes next.