This was me. This is what I looked like in high school around the time the abuse by my stepdad was ending. I was on the tennis team. I was in honor classes and made mainly A’s and B’s. I was quiet and kept to myself for the most part. I was a naive and…
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I Did It! I Finally Got It!
A little over a month ago I found myself doing something I had wanted to do since I was in High School. That’s right, I got a TATTOO, baby! Like I said, I’ve wanted one since High School but have never settled on anything where I thought, “Yeah, I want that permanently on my body…
Sweeping Under The Rug
Quite often we think if we sweep something under the rug it will go away. All those things we sweep under the rug eventually pile-up, and we end up with a lumpy, bumpy rug which we trip over whenever we walk across it. Sometimes it’s best to address situations when we come across them, instead…
It Hurts My Heart
Something happened yesterday that just hurt my heart. I found out that my oldest (who I will refer to as Kay) has been getting bullied in school for about a week, and this is only the second week of school. This student has been threatening my child by saying things like: she would shoot my…
The 9th Anniversary Date
The anniversary date for when I went to court is coming up. It’s been 9 years since court, at the end of August in 2007 I finally was going to have my day in court. It only took 5 different DAs most of which didn’t want anything to do with my case, 5 years of…