Photo by Nextvoyage from Pexels You don’t know what you don’t know. Keep going. Self-publish your book. Writing my first book almost broke me. I self-published. I believed that self-publishing would take the delay out of the process. I was wrong. Self-publishing added an overabundance of new non-writing related tasks that took time to learn to …
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Image by skeeze from Pixabay 123 pounds Lost. Counting down the last 15 pounds. (Part 11) Today my weight is the lowest it has been in many years. I am 173.3 pounds. I should be happy. I’m not. I’m exhausted. I have been fighting the same 15 pounds for eight weeks. I was bouncing back and …
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Image by Jose Antonio Alba from Pixabay In my mind, my choices were to live a boring life of poverty or run off with a much older man who promised a glamorous, expensive lifestyle. I ran off with the man. I didn’t know it but the man, Leo, wanted me to fund that seductive lifestyle by …
Photo by RUN 4 FFWPU from Pexels Love was supposed to make you better, not worst. Why was I jogging straight into a life of unbelievable spiritual and physical humiliation? I’m a survivor. I’m living proof of the fact that it doesn’t matter where you started. It matters where you end. At seventeen, I ran away …
Sprinting Toward a Horrific Destiny at 17 Image by piundco from Pixabay He was in full control of my life. I did whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, however he wanted it done. Why did he need control of my child, too? I’m a survivor. Leo needed total control. He already had established who held the power …
Running Down the Road Toward Hell at 17 Image by hamperium from Pixabay He had stolen my heart, my mind, and my common sense. Why did he need to humiliate me and take my dignity too? I’m a survivor. I knew better. Looking back now, I know that I willfully ignored the signs that I was in …
Image by George Bond from Pixabay Why is my spouse worried? I’ll treat his things as well as I do my own. Better, even. I married my spouse in California. We did not have a prenuptial agreement. We were young working people living from paycheck to paycheck when we got married. We married for love. There …
Legacy Cooking Gumbo Collard Greens Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay How better to learn about your family history then through cooking? I was cooking “gumbo greens” the other day when it hit me I never fully understood the emotional complexities of preparing food from an old family recipe. Gumbo greens is an old Crowe family recipe. …
