My name is Diana LeRoi-Schmidt and I’ve been happily married to Craig for 9 years, we have two cats, Melody and Jazzmine and live in Connecticut.

I typically go by the title of web designer, but I do everything from print design, web design, email design, the occasional PowerPoint, light front end web development and more recently photography.

I took on my first client doing web design in 1998. It was a rocky first start. I stopped trying to do client work until I finished college. I then went onto work for a dot com that was not successful.

In 2001, while between jobs Craig and I decided to take CRIANA from being our wedding website, to being our company.

I really enjoy taking photos with my camera and spending as much time as possible with Craig.

My interests are varied, below is a list of the current ones.

• black and white photography
• philosophy
• psychology
• simplifying my life and possessions
• gardening and homesteading
• web design standards
• knitting
• law (intellectual property and environmental)
• wine

Some little known facts about me:

• I have been working consistently since I was 15
• I know how to change the oil on my car and do a 4 tire rotation
• I like to go off-roading
• I’m shy but once I feel comfortable I can be a chatter box
• I rode horses for 6 years. I prefer to ride English
• I played softball for 4 years
• I graduated from college, got married, bought and sold a house all in 2000
• I am an only child
• I like to dream of all the possibilities, known and unknown
• I love astronomy and meteorology

Behind the Name

The title of the blog came from Craig and I talking one day while driving somewhere, and I said, “I really feel like I’m always trying to find the road not taken. I do everything backwards from the rest of the world”. And so it stuck.

“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. ‚” Howard Thurman