I got a letter in the mail today from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. It is in response to my letters to Ronnie's parole board. It is dated September 15th.

(The last time I checked, Ronnie's parole date wasn't going to be until the 25th- this Friday!! They must have made up their minds early?)

The letter says that my name has been added to ( Read more... )

I want to post about a significant challenge that I have encountered in abuse recovery. This is an excessively controversial subject in Survivor circles, and I do not doubt that someone will read this and disagree with me bitterly at some point in time.

So allow me to take a moment and say: I'm not like my brother, Calladus, who has posting rules ( Read more... )

I've ummm... done some remodeling to the Journal.

So now that I've finally placed the story I've been wanting to tell on this Journal, it seems to have taken over. However, this is not my intention. The fact that I'm a survivor of abuse is only ONE aspect of my personality. Among other things, I am still very much a skeptic, an artist, a lesbian, a ( Read more... )

Introduction:

For a few years now, I’ve been meaning to write in this Livejournal about a defining part of my life. I want to discuss the abuse that I encountered as a kid. I want to do this in depth, and place everything on this Journal that I’m willing to speak about in such a public forum.

There are several reasons why I want to do this:

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