My early years were built around all of the stereotypes one might imagine, as a child born a couple of years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., in the projects of Harlem. My mother divorced my father when I was five and became a "single mom," raising her children in what some considered the ghettos of New York City. This could be a long story, but I won't repeat it here. These early years are not about the stereotypical life I had, it IS about "the secret life" of Geekette '84, who later becomes @digitalsista.