My name is Eden Marriott Kennedy. I grew up in Littleton, Colorado, with my parents, my two older brothers, and a big, red-haired dachshund named Claudius. My dad taught me how to do a crossword puzzle and my mom taught me how to knit. My brothers taught me how to light firecrackers without blowing off my hand and drop the puck in a street hockey game without losing my teeth.
Despite having all those valuable skills, I never became a hockey fan, all the good fireworks are illegal where I live now, I only knit when it's cold and I need something to keep my knees warm, and I gave up doing a daily crossword when I let my New York Times subscription lapse.
Then I discovered blogging.
When I had a baby and lost my editing job back in 2001, blogging became a good way to record my history and teach myself a little HTML. For instance, here's an early post where I describe what it was like to give birth in my own bathroom. Here's this other thing where I took a picture of my head every day for three months so that curious onlookers could watch my hair grow.
Because of the time and energy I've frittered away online I've been mentioned, quoted, featured, and/or interviewed by The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, Frontline, the BBC, The Santa Barbara Independent, and The Santa Barbara News-Press.
My dear friend Alice Bradley and I wrote a book that was published by St. Martin's Press in 2011. I leaf through it once in awhile and wonder why we haven't been given a Nobel Prize.
It went out of print in the spring of 2018, and I’ve only got two copies left myself, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . You can buy it used from Amazon. I think it's funny (and it got a nice review in The Washington Post) but if you don't agree and want to get rid of your copy, please mail it to:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, Henrik Ibsens gate 5, 0255 Oslo, NORWAY
When my son was tiny and my schedule wouldn’t let me get to yoga class, I channeled my frustration into a site called Yogabeans, where I blogged under the name Elastigirl. But as my son got older and I was able to leave the house again, the urge to mock the practice I loved receded, so in 2016 I moved all the archived posts over here and let the domain expire.
Some of my posts are in this book, and in this book, and I have an essay in this book, and this one, too.
If it's too much work to go through my archives, you can always just read my interview with Leahpeah or get the bare minimum from my About Me page.
In August of 2023 I started writing at Substack on a little page I like to call The Platypusary. It seems like a good way to grow readership, make a little money, and rekindle some of the fun I used to have with early-days blogging. We’ll see how it goes!
My Adam and Eve logo was designed by Michele Howley Boudreaux.
My formerly-alive husband’s website: Coast Village Builders.
This site is hosted and powered by Squarespace.
Do you use a feed reader? Here’s the link to add my blog.
EVERYTHING else is copyright Eden Marriott Kennedy, edenkennedy.com, edenmkennedy.com, emkennedy.net, fussy.org, whatsthefuss.com, yogabeans.com, and yogabeans.net, 2001-2023, all rights reserved.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Privacy Policy
Any personal information you share with me, including your name, address, phone number, fax, e-mail, and PayPal info, will NEVER be given or sold to anyone. There may come a time when I am required to hand such things over to the authorities, but let's all hold hands and pray that never happens.
Emkennedy.net does not put cookies onto your computer. If you click on an ad the advertiser may do the cookie thing, and may be interested in what you view and how long you view it for, but they won't get any personal information unless you give it to them. (If you would like more information about third-party cookies and to know your choices about not having your information used by advertisers, click here.) I do occasionally look at my site stats to find out who's reading what and where they came from, but those logs are not shared with anyone.
Emkennedy.net cannot be held responsible for the sites that advertise here, and cannot guarantee the content or services offered by these advertisers. If you have any questions about the privacy policies of advertisers, do not hesitate to contact them directly.