In My Own Words
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Truth & Tourism – A Horror Story
Imagine being four years old. Your name is Dorothy Good. Your parents are unstable both financially and mentally, making your homelife chaotic, and your mother is pregnant again. You suffer…
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Dressing for a Funeral
I purged my closet this summer. A big purge that included almost all of my long pants that aren’t sweats. I’ve just started replacing the winter stuff I need now…
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Hey, November!
Where are you going? Woo-eee! Well, it’s been a month and two days since I last wrote on this space I keep promising myself to visit weekly! If you missed…
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Special Announcement!
So much has happened since the release day in July and I haven’t been able to get it all written out yet! Life has been a whirlwind these past few…
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What Does One Wear for This?
When I was a little kid, I wore a lot of frilly dresses. The tail end of the 70s merged with the 80s, and fashion wasn’t what I worried about.…
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The Myth Maker – CH 2(in part)
A sneak peek! Thank you for following me on Substack! I’m excited to share these first sample pages of The Myth Maker. I hope this introduction to Detective Cassidy Cantwell…
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Where it all started
My little kid journey into becoming an author If you scroll back through this site far enough you’ll find a rambling post about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on…
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy – Part IV
Part IV – Making it to the end I spent an hour in hysterics after hanging up with the midwife. I didn’t think I would recover from being told no…
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I hope you fly
I realized I didn’t hit publish on the final installment of my personal pregnancy story last week and I will publish that one tomorrow. I’m moving this one forward because…
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Getting Real About Teen Pregnancy – Part III
Part III – Get over it, whiney girl… Somehow politicians and strangers are still arguing their right to control the bodies of anyone with a uterus. Often times those people…