Here we go! Welcome!

 Welcome to Manners Matters, a site where I'll answer your questions on etiquette and psychology and relationships and sex and grammar and some legal questions.

Note: I'm not a licensed clinical psychiatrist or psychologist, nor a practicing attorney.

What I do have is half a century of experience in dealing with disastrous family dynamics; terrible and good relationships; legislative and legal analysis; writing everything; thinking too much; perhaps 10,000 pages of etiquette books read; and many, many health problems. 

Suicidal ideations are a daily occurrence.

I've also swung from being a feminist to knowing better.

My political views are based on an understanding of history, psychology, government activities and economics.

I've created a YouTube channel but have yet to post because frankly, I'm not a big fan of hearing myself talk. 

I've been answering a lot of questions on Quora about the above-listed topics. I started answering questions in earnest on Christmas Day 2020, while in the hospital after having been found in my home in a catatonic and delirious state. My diagnosis was toxic encephalopathy and sadly, I haven't died from it yet. (If you saw my list of more than 60 diseases I'm dealing with, you'd understand.)

Yet while my parents raised me as an atheist, in March 2003 I had a vision/dream, in which I was carried to heaven by an angel (she was large--and had short, blond, wavy hair and wore a light blue gown), where I experienced my own salvation and heard the Voice of God. (You know it's the God because--well--it's God. There is no doubt in your mind about it when it happens. Even when you're an atheist.)

I received six Truths and they are the foundation of Abendism, a sect of Calvinist or, more accurately, Monergist ideology. (Hmm--I'd better start a page on Wikipedia about it ASAP. I am the founder, after all.) These Truths are listed on my Quora board, Abendism. ("Abend" is German for "evening," the time of day in which I in particular am most active, and therefore the best time to contemplate God.)

I'd never read the Bible and knew almost nothing of Christianity; my parents were raised Catholic and decided to give their parents a big middle finger by becoming atheists. I was baptized, but my very-junior sister was not.

I am writing a book on Abendism and will self -publish, most likely, and sell the books on Amazon, Etsy and eBay. I believe I'll make a separate entry here that will go into the ideology in some detail: it involves Christianity, but also Hinduism.

Each people, each religion, has a slice of the Truth pie.

I'm also writing a book on etiquette and relationships--they're interlaced throughout the world, forever.

I'm a bit scattered here and that can happen; please be patient with me. I'm not who I used to be anymore and I'm still trying to figure out this new creature that came out of the hospital at the end of 2020; what went in isn't what came out.