When I started blogging I had one focus : Write. That's all I really wanted to do : Express my self, my ideas, my values. Yet it's becoming increasingly difficult for me to just sit down and do the writing.

I now spend a good half to two-thirds of my day dealing with emails, conference calls, etc. etc. Not that I mind.

There is a lot of offline work that needs to be done most of the time before I can even do my work online. It's just that I feel "broken down" by all the "other work" I am expected to do but can barely accomplish.

I am living in the flesh that sexist comment about "I need a wife" (was it Gloria Steinem in one of her more inspired times?)

Yet, I mean, I am a wife. A working mother and wife. Grock knows I don't need a damn wife. What I really need is a staff.

I need not only an assistant. I need a housekeeper, a bookeeper, an events coordinator, a tutor for the kids and an afternoon babysitter.

Of course, the truth I "need those people". The problem is that I need a substantial operating budget --and that money I just don't have.

I have been playing quite a lot with Twitter, but feel empty inside. For one, I have and awful lot of things to say that do not quite fit there (for they take up more than 140 characters) yet neither at culturekitchen, since they have to do more with the minutiae of the blogosphere.

So, here I am. Let the ranting begin.

It's been an incredibly challenging year with both the good and the bad.

Your help in paying for my computer's repairs means the world to me.

Thanks for taking the time to do this!

My computer is dead and I am trapped in the digital claws of a Dell PC but I have not been able to run out the door to get my Linus to the mac hospital.

Today is Tuesday and it's the day I have to take the kids to their gymnastics class. What does that entail? I'm glad you asked:

1. Prepare their afterschool snacks

Liza Sabater is a feminist culture critic, techactivist, web producer and a first wave net native who has been online for 20 years, publishing on the web through different media for over 10 years and blogging for a little over 5 years.

She is the founder of culturekitchen (2001) [http://culturekitchen.com], which has been described as a progressive's dream with “a little attitude, a lot of scholarship, a good dose of humor and plenty of enlightening stuff”. It is the founding blog of the Feminist Bloggers Network and the Digital Ethnorati Project. She also publishes The Daily Gotham (2005) [http://dailygotham.com], a member of BlogPAC’s 50 state initiative; and described by New York politics insiders as "the 800lb gorilla" of New York City’s grassroots. It is one of the founding blogs of the New York Progressive Bloggers Caucus.

Liza has advised, contributed or worked with a wide variety of organizations including Blogher, Colorlines, The Distributive Creativity Project, EchoDitto, Eyebeam, New York Home Educators Alliance, The Nation, New America Media, New Democratic Majority, Rhizome.org, Personal Democray Forum, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and Sunlight Foundation’s Open House Project.

Whenever she is not working on her blogs, traveling across the US, Canada or Europe presenting her work at various conferences and universities, or being featured in articles and documentaries, Liza returns to the heart of New York City and to her secret identity as a gym and soccer mom.