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Becoming Lady Angela / Staying PlaySmart

Feb 022013

I wrote this for friends on FetLife. It contains information bombs for blog readers: 1. My first name is Angela. 2. My username for my personal profile on FetLife is PlaySmart. When I was first starting phone sex, around my 40th birthday, I wrote about choosing the name Galiana, and whether or not Galiana is my real name in some sense. Along the way, I told a few callers my legal name, for various reasons. The guy I met real-time with sugar daddy tendencies. The first caller I told that I loved him, and from the same blog entry, the man who fell asleep to my voice for a while. The one who helped me start accepting my Inner Whore. The guy in a wheelchair [read more...]

Question of the Day

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May 102011

Since my two other usernames have been dormant for so long while I’m (ostensibly) rewriting them, I am considering renaming them as well as reworking them. The one that was known as “Mistress Galiana” (which I’m about halfway done rewriting) will be changing to “Ms Galiana”. I considered and rejected “Lady Galiana” “Queen Galiana” “Domme Galiana” “Vixen Galiana” “Minx Galiana” “Goddess Galiana” “Galiana In Charge” “Galiana Leads” and plain old “Galiana Chance”. My reasons for rejection were many, but it basically boils down to “I think too much about details like this, but fer fuxx sake just pick one already”. I was planning on leaving my hypnosis-focused username as is: “Hypno Galiana” but a long-time caller suggested the possibility of “Galiana Trance”. I can’t decide [read more...]

My Real Name

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Sep 212010

My “Real Name”… well, that depends of your definition of reality, doesn’t it? I have always believed in Santa Claus, the Velveteen Rabbit, and Snoopy. Honestly. Santa may be fiction, but there have been poems, songs, movies, books, dolls, and decorations by the millions made of him, and we know, in our gut, what Santa would and wouldn’t do in any situation, as much as we know what our own parents would do. Just because he’s fiction doesn’t mean he isn’t real. I spent this weekend talking and thinking about why I chose the name Galiana Chance for myself. Why I named myself that, nine years ago. I blogged about it here, about what it meant when I chose it, and what it has come [read more...]

Happy Birthday, Galiana

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Sep 182010

… aka: How I Named My Alter Ego, And How Galiana Became Not-So-Alter After All Do you remember how you felt on September 18, 2001? I do. I was still a little bit in shock at the events of the week before, but I was still choosing to live life to the fullest at every turn. I had gotten on a plane on September 16th to travel for vacation, just as I had previously planned to do, and the act of walking through the well-armed airports made me feel strong, proud, defiant, and unutterably sad. I was also a little in shock because I was starting to admit that my marriage was no longer working (I eventually divorced him). I had joined an online writer’s [read more...]