About

My name is Cosette and I’m a Cuban-American woman who met an Australian man. Now I’m discovering a strange and beautiful new land.

I started blogging casually many years ago in the AOL Journals community. I began blogging because I enjoy exploring new technologies and communities. I blogged to share, discover, and process. Now I also blog to keep in touch with family and friends when we are a vast ocean apart.

I was born in Havana, Cuba in 1977, immigrated with my family to the United States on the Mariel boatlift in 1980, and grew up in Miami. My education is in English, Women’s Studies, and Religious Studies. I’m passionate about culture, spirituality, and social justice. I’m also a big lover of social media, online communities, and virtual worlds. I’ve worked as the Social Networking Coordinator for Cherry Hill Seminary and helped build the Pagan Newswire Collective.  My blog Second Mode is about the virtual world Second Life and I’m an enthusiastic user of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Flickr. I’m gratefully employed by the Metaverse Mod Squad, which provides client and customer support for online communities and virtual worlds.

When I’m not working or playing in the metaverse, I enjoy spending time with friends and family, reading, exploring the world and the Craft. I’m a Pagan, specifically an initiate of the Georgian Wicca tradition, and an uninitiated daughter of Ogun.

To learn more about me as an American living down under, please see my interviews at Expat Blogs, Expat Focus, InterNations, and Blog Expat.

I love hearing from people so if you’ve got a comment, question, or a tip on where to go, who to read, and what not to miss, contact me. I love comments so feel free to leave them; you can review my comment policy here.

If you’re interested in exchanging links or guest blogging, please contact me as well. Please note that this blog does not accept advertising or sponsored posts.

My original content in this blog, including photos, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License, which means you are free to share and adapt it as long as it is not for commercial purposes and you attribute the work back to me. Other content that is not by me is used with permission and is credited at the bottom of the entry.