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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Debbianne DeRose is, among other things, a writer specializing in honest, humorous explorations of all things "woo-woo" (metaphysical, spiritual, paranormal, New Agey) with intent to empower and entertain. She’s the author of the memoir “What I Did On My Midlife Crisis Vacation” and the forthcoming primer “How I Met the Man of my Dreams: a Guide to MANifesting Yours”. She was formerly formally trained in the Conservative Arts of engineering and economics, and enjoyed stints as database geek, non-profiteer, college instructor, bricolage artist and inadvertent Portland house flipper before diving into the world of wordsmithery. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area where she can swim regularly in the seas of woo, buoyed always by her Jersey girl sensibilities and sense of humor.

Visit Debbianne.com for thought-provoking, giggle-inducing reading material.