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... )

Where have we been the past 5 weeks?

Where do I start?

Here's the deal. In 2005, we got out of paying for mortgage insurance by getting one of those scary adjustable rate mortgages. Risky, I know- if you get as much house as you can possibly afford. But I qualified on my own, without Johnny's income. If we had put Johnny on the loan, we would have ( Read more... )