Well this is a little late! 
DD this is my third time starting from scratch in this place 
I have been gone a number of times and for various lengths of time as "life" demands, but I have never abandoned my original account. I have always returned. I made myself a promise to always be truthful and honest when I created this "persona" (except for my choosing a beautiful female as my avie, this is me and always has been, regardless of what I have been through, including broken arm from just looking in on my neighbor's house, stabbing another neighbor severely in the groin with a rake handle to protect my wife and his live in in order to stop his abuse, jumping over a police line who were ready to shoot a loose bull near a strip mall because I knew how to control it without bullets, having a "surprise" son come into my life, then another one, with kids of his own, making a great deal of my current life about my kids, my garden, my music and occasionally a project involving woodwork. It is all me, just me, including all the spazzy shit with not being able to tell whether I have typed two of the same letters or three or four at times -these days I tend to not post when that happens- and I avoid talking about a fw things that still really bug the shit out of me, because they add nothing to the site and do not seem to help anyone.)
It is all just me.
SO, do I know you from a previous form/entity/persona/screen name?
I have been advised that you are female, so forgive any misuse of gender pronouns, but I was thinking that a phoenix was risen from ashes and had no need of gender.
Maybe you do not need one, being a phoenix and all.
