Artist Type: Writer


Age: 50+


City: Tulsa OK


Hi there, my name is Zelda Zebra.


I have used other names, but they do not illuminate my present. Becoming Zelda on line has been easy. Allowing her to illuminate my life has been a challenge, but I had to, my survival depends on it.


People in my RL and on line have told me that Zelda is who I am. I thought I was keeping that part of me secret, I felt like Plexiglas when I learned how many people saw what I tried so hard to hide.


For years I felt something was wrong .... I hid.

When I knew it could never be ....I pretended.

When I heard that it was a nasty thing ... I fought it.

When I knew it would never leave .... I tried to die.

When I could not hide or pretend or fight or die ..... I lost hope.



When I asked for help..... I took back hope.

When I felt it as a part of me... I knew need.

When I felt it as me... I knew want.

When I feel at peace with it .... I will know me.


In case you have not already figured it out.

I am and always have been a woman.

I had to live most of my life as a man.

I have struggled to understand just what that means.

I work now on the details of looking and living what I have always been.


Z.


These are the main people in my writing.


Zelda Zebra = me some times known as Erin

Patty Pinto = The life partner I hope to find and may have found in Xerena we will find out when she gets back from over seas.

Jeanette Le pue = Who I thought I waned to be.

Ed = who I tried to be

May West = my dark side ;-))


Look me up in SL as Zelda Stipe


I will add more when the household drama falls off.