Hi, I'm Linda, and while I'd love to include something really zany in this introductory post like, "I have 87 body piercings and they're all below the waist," unfortunately I'm kind of boring: 30-haruumph years old, living in the suburbs, married, the beamingly proud and only occasionally horrified parent of two little boys.

When I'm not wrangling my kids (as of this writing my older boy is three years old and the baby is seven months), I work part-time for a small software company, tackle various freelance projects and studiously ignore the growing piles of laundry in my house.

I enjoy comic books, horror movies, profanity, beauty products, Starlight mints, blogs, the way exercise feels when you're done with it for the day, and Netflix. Oh, and parenthood. Ha ha ha, of course I relish every single moment of parenthood, and have never once considered stuffing my children into mailing tubes and overnighting them to the Australian Outback, attn: Any Nearby Ravenous Pack of Dingos.

This little corner of the web will be devoted to the random topics that cross my increasingly enfeebled mind: motherhood; fitness; work/life balance; my personal quest for finding a bra that completely reverses the ravages of gravity from those post-baby hooters, if you know what I mean, and I think you do; whether or not Clive Owen is the tastiest man-biscuit this world has ever seen; and, of course, zombies.

If you're wondering what on earth "Purple Is a Fruit" means and why I picked it for a blog name, it comes from a Simpsons episode that I feel nicely sums up my parenting expertise:

Homer: "Donut?"
Lisa: "No thanks. Do you have any fruit?"
Homer: "This has purple stuff inside. Purple is a fruit."

I hope to see you around!