by Kirk Melson
I’ve always thought of myself as a pretty normal guy. I
mean, I’m an engineer, nothing odd about that. and just for the record, in my
mind being NORMAL was a good thing!
But early in my wife’s writing career, I noticed that she
and other writers referred to being normal in a very odd context. I tried to
ignore the overtones of derision, but it became harder as life went on.
Truthfully, when Edie and her friends mentioned normal, I
didn’t understand why they found our behavior so funny. To me, not
hearing voices seemed a lot more reasonable than hearing them…and admitting it.
And going on to assign those voices to imaginary people gets even weirder. Then
to finally argue out loud with those made up characters made me think they had
all gone a little nuts.
