What's This Blog All About, Anyway?

If this blog is going to be about anything, it'll describe what it feels like to be an outsider. A lovable rebel of society (and cyber-society). A consummate wit who feels lost in her environment and, thus, underappreciated. I've been such an individual all of my life! First through being adopted, second through being teased, bullied, and rejected at school, third through an identity and spiritual crisis that exploded after an incomplete spinal cord injury, fourth through life lived vicariously in books I read and wrote.

Because my chronic injury's complete healing is pretty much dependent on outside factors I can't control, my life is not only frustrating, but it would be even more lonely and boring without my satirical sense of humor. It's true. Laughter is the best medicine! I laugh at myself with every satirical character I create...and there have been quite a few.

I sometimes wonder how different my life would be if I had agreed to marry either guy who suddenly proposed to me after my injury and rehabilitation in the Chicago area. Neither had dated me, nor had they told me they loved me! My father or parents were listening as if that gave them an excuse for their unromantic proposals. I've concluded they asked out of 1) having fantasized about me, 2) wanting to rescue me out of pity and 3) thinking their god would wish them to.

All incredibly bad reasons!

You will be wondering what kind of books and characters this rebel has created and published. I'll be ignoring two of them. The first from 1999, called Eden in Limbo, is silly and boring with no satire at all, from a past best forgotten. The next is my first, nonfiction book that combines old religious poetry, retrospective commentary, and memoir (From Out of the Desert: Finding Myself). There may be a satirical me in it, but that doesn't count!

So the characters making up my blog are from Dr. Freudine Is In, Memoir of a Writing Porn Star, Eden in Purrgatory, Eden at Play, and Eden Forever.

I imagine them to be reviewing me, their creator, and even themselves and their stories. It'll be satire and, yes, a way to understand my wonderfully madcap outlook on life better. My life may have been very different, but my satirical character? Don't really think so! I hope you'll find my blog a lot of fun and maybe it'll help you to love my books and audiobooks more too. I can only hope, right?!