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Author: Mary Ellen Edmunds
About Product: It’s been a challenge to write a book about loneliness. I didn’t want to write one that would make someone who was lonely feel lonelier, or that would cause someone who seldom if ever feels lonely to say, “This isn’t my thing.” I have hoped to write a book that would help all of us—in our own loneliness, or in our desire to reach out to those who are lonely.
This is not a book by a professional Lonelinessist or Lonely-ist (can’t figure out how to spell it). I guess there really isn’t such a profession, but I just want to make sure you don’t choose this book because you think it will give you, finally, the answers to exactly what causes loneliness and exactly what cures it. It just is not a “scientific” book.
It is a book that will offer lots of suggestions and lots of hope. Loneliness is a terrible, painful thing, but it’s not terminal. It can be lessened. This book holds some thoughts I hope may be helpful to any who struggle with feelings of loneliness, and any who wish to help.
One of the things I struggled with most may have been coming up with the title. Buck Up, Little Buckaroo! started out as a title I was only going to use until I could think of something better. I wasn’t sure I liked that title because it felt like it made light of something that is very real and very painful (loneliness can certainly be both). One strong impression I had was that to discount loneliness is to become unable to help or understand. But in the end I decided that the cheerful hope in the title made it all right. After all, one of the things I hope people will take away from this book is that, as hard as it is, loneliness doesn’t need to rule our lives. There is so much happiness available to us, not just in eternity but right here and right now!
—Mary Ellen Edmunds
Pages: 146
