Everybody’s got a Story. Tell us yours! Question #8: August 14, 2013 Lee’s Story: Thank goodness I’ve had people in my life who have at times given me some profoundly simple, yet important advice. The one I’ve learned the most from was from my Nana…. Nana and I were very close. We would sit on her back porch, have a cigarette – when we all smoked – and listen to the birds which is how I learned to identify […]
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Everybody’s got a Story. Tell us yours! Question #7: August 13, 2013 Lee’s Story: I was named after my grandfather, Lee, and my first name is spelled like his. My middle name is the surname of another family member. So if you put all the names together my name is androgynous, and can be either a male or female name. Back in the day, 7th grade was the beginning of junior high. It meant a new school, […]
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Everybody’s got a Story. Tell us yours! Question #6: August 12, 2013 Lee’s Story: Well….I did a lot of things in my 20′s some good, some not so much, so I’m one of those people who think that sometimes it’s better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission. I don’t want to be one of those people who, on their deathbed, finds regret in what they DIDN’T do. However, there was a point in my life […]
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Everybody’s got a Story. Tell us yours! Question #5: August 9, 2013 Lee’s Story: Growing up in the ’70′s my mother had a career, was involved in many functions and groups; raised a family. So consequently, those of us raised in the 70′s just presumed we would do the same things: go to college, have career, be involved in many functions and groups, get married and raise a family. What we didn’t presume is that trying to be […]
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Everybody’s got a Story. Tell us yours! Question #4: August 8, 2013 Lee’s Story: Up until my parents divorced when I was in my mid to late 20′s, our immediate family had consisted of 5 people: mom, dad, me, 2 brothers. When I was in my late 20′s my dad started dating a women who had been his sister’s best friend in high school. Dad was divorced with kids, she was divorced with kids. After a few years […]
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Everybody’s got a Story. Tell us yours! Question #3: August 7, 2013 Lee’s Story: When I married the first time, I was 22. WAY too young and very unaware of who I really was as a person. It was during the almost 10 years of this marriage – which felt like 100 – that near the end, I realized I had traded myself for something I didn’t recognize anymore. I had overlooked my husbands issues before we […]
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Everybody’s got a Story. Tell us yours! Question #2: August 6, 2013 Lee’s Story: I’ve had a few lucky breaks in my life and most have been job related. Here’s one: When I was married to my ex-husband, we had moved across the state for his job. We had both graduated from college and this was the first “real” job for him, and the first really hard job search for me. My degree was in English Language since […]
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Everybody’s got a Story. Tell us yours: How would you re-chart your future? Question #1: August 5, 2013 Lee’s Story: If I re-charted my future there are several things I would change. I would never have married my ex-husband. He was angry, told lies as easily as most people tell the truth, and became an abusive, raging alcoholic. It was almost 10 years of trying to fix somebody who didn’t want to be fixed and being scared […]
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