I started my biz in August of 2000 under the name Mama Specific Productions. I sold various zines about different aspects of my mothering experience for some years, then branched into publishing books. Several years ago I decided to branch into producing other types of work including video and music, as well as publish more books about topics other than motherhood. I kept the MSP from Mama Specific Productions for nostalgia, and MSPmedia was born.

Trula Basics
Age: 37
Occupation: Writer
I have a Bookstore, also work an outside job at a bigboxcorp
Mood: Happy
Cultural Identity: American Black
Marital Status: Married
Children: 3 wee ones now big ones
Dietary: Vegetarian
Fitness: Running & Yoga
Eco-Friendly: Yes
Horoscope: Capricorn
Why Mercury: Sci-fi name
Languages: English fluent, limp along French & Spanish
Gardening: Avid
Religion: Spiritual, no affiliation
Fashion: Earthy

and YES, it’s all my real hair!

Print publishing projects for 2009 include:

Positive Emergence Magazine. Online publishing includes documenting my fitness & weight loss journey, I’ve lost 70 pounds since January 2007! I am happily married and we have 3 great kids, two boys and a girl. I am so blessed with my children and so thankful to be their mother. My sons are currently ages 14 and 11; my daughter is 19. Yes, at 37 I am young to have a grown child, I was a teenage mother. In my
free time I like gardening, reading, sewing (I love making quilts and skirts), running, karaoke, salsa dancing, and biking. I’m a vegetarian, tree hugger, thrifty, DIY, body-pierced, indie, recycling, old-school kinda person.

What else? I know how to chill.
My favorite color is pink.
It took me 15 years to earn a college degree!
I have been lucid dreaming since I was a child.
I am a very slow thinker due to a head injury.
I LOVE Sesame Street!
My favorite theorem is the Mean Value Theorem.

I am an avid reader and book lover as well as writer so I’m currently in the process of opening a used bookstore in Elyria, Ohio and also sell used books on Amazon. Most of the books I sell I have read and quite a few are well-loved copies. Look for my own books to be listed soon, I’m sending them to be added to the Amazon catalog.

You can follow me on Twitter
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Check out my bookmarks on del.cio.us
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See my videos on YouTube

Interests: biking, yoga, running, swimming, vegetarian stuff, cowrie shells, reading, writing, web design/web stuff, physics, business, politics, art, animation, body piercing, house plants, organized space, futurism, African history, afro-futurism, community gardens, reading, contemporary art, science fiction, indie presses, speculative fiction, personal style, DIY, agriculture, dirt, href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_diving">dumpster diving, survival, unschool, blogging, straw bale houses, small scale farming, indie publishing, reconstructed clothing, upcycle fashion, web design, social media