So, I haven't talked about what I do when I'm not on the ranch, but it's taken me a while to kind of settle into it. I knew working with music was going to be the way to go. I tried going to a couple churches to see about choir directing, if you could believe it. I tried going to schools, from day cares to UNM. Nothing really panned out until a ( Read more... )

Jo sent me a picture that she found yesterday. And it makes me feel old, because it's me with dear_stars when she was a baby. And now she's here, being Aunt Gigi to Sally, and proving she's not a kid anymore.

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Today I got a FedEx envelope from Italy. In it was a bribe carefully disguised as my mother's will. I don't know whether to be angry or feel sorry for her. But I think right now I'm hovering somewhere in the middle ( Read more... )

As expected, with a few months of me not responding to my mother's cryptic message her partner emails me. I have never liked this guy. He's always talked trash about Dad, about how wrong he was for driving my mother to do what she did with his mistreatment. Honestly I think he's way more in love with my mother than she is with him. And I think he ( Read more... )

My mother sent me a peace offering

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This isn't going to make sense to hardly anyone, really only Jared and Ali, but... This was almost exactly... I don't know how it got so close to being almost exactly like the song Mom and Dad sung just before we... started over . It was filled with so much pain and fear. An anguish of having to leave behind ( Read more... )

I've been trying to figure out how to... how to word what happened. How to describe what it feels like to lose complete and utter faith in someone. In your own mother ( Read more... )

Jo and my sister are flying in in a few hours. Because my mother told me she was going to be here Saturday. Which probably means today since my mother would never actually tell me the correct time if she was trying to teach me a lesson.

Teach me a damn lesson. Like she didn't actually threaten to take my daughter from me if I didn't do what she ( Read more... )

I  miss my step-mother's hot chocolate. Jo runs a confection shop. She got recipes from all over and her cocoa was no different. It's not the super sweet variety. It's dark, the slightest bit bitter until you add a pinch of cinnamon.

She's sent powdered versions before, to tide me over. But there's something about how she makes it. Maybe it's ( Read more... )

Somehow or another my mother found out where I live. And she is coming to "talk sense" into me. Get me to leave with Sally. Or she would be "compelled" to take Sally herself. Because exposing my child to polyamory is... oh what word did she use. Deplorable. Funny that the woman who tried to kill her child is throwing around words like deplorable.

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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... it's not how you'd think the story of Joran Grant would begin. But then again, there is more to Jory than he'll ever let you know. And if you can read all this... screw the cookies. You get a four course gourmet meal. And a pony.

( What he'll tell you )