A Portrait of Norma Then came summer vacation before Jr High Long days of summer to interact with friends And let’s not forget uncles, aunts and cousins Parks, barbqs, road trips, and just because with kin Sleepovers with girlfriends while imitating singing groups Applying make-up, and talking about boys About what we would do once […]
Most websites agree that all sexual abuse reports are under-enumerated mainly because they are under-reported. When I read statistics on the matter, I sometimes at least double many of the given projections. The World I billion children across the world are exposed to violence in childhood each year. That’s over half of the world’s children
For the most part abuse is deliberate. I can’t defend my actions. They too were deliberate. Still, I would like to think that I gave my children a lot of the things my mother gave me, as I remember them. Still I know my offerings were convoluted. For instance, as a child I was never
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It was one of those situations that happens rather spontaneously. ELSJ2 worked in the plants there and maybe we could make it there a little better. It was decided that we would move to Michigan. That was February of 1978. It was the last Tuesday in the month. Happy Days came on that night. At
Daddy, Uncle Good Deeds by Good People I think people may read this and say boy you had it bad, that once your mom died you didn’t have a chance in hell. That isn’t exactly true. I did get a chance but I was too immature to know it. With that thought it dawned on
As near as I can recall, we moved to oldest brother’s house in the late Spring of ’76. School had already let out for the year and there was no travelling to and from the westside to finish out the school year. Just me and lil’ brother fully enjoying a summer. At any rate, my
By the time I had to make sure Somebody’s son was taken and picked up from kindergarten, her husband had left her. As I entered Jr High, things changed again. Now she wanted freedom. Her desire for freedom meant that I could be sitting in class and suddenly, I would be summoned to the principal’s
Title: Fear I did not want to title this one fear because that sounds so bad. And fear is not a bad thing. In fact, it’s a propellor. Still, sometimes, it’s a negative thing. Fear makes you try things, it makes you overcome things, or it makes you not try anything at all. Case in
It was about this time that I called the police. There was a payphone across the street from the second apartment at 4131 West End. Clarence owned the store across the street, and it had a payphone in front of the store. I was 11 or 12 at this time and I wanted freedom, I
Contrary to Mama Well after the Spring of ’72, Somebody told me a story. This came from a household that was not big on Aesop’s Fables. When my mother was living, we lived at 1307 S. Tripp St. in Chicago Ill. Her story went, there was a candy house on Keeler St., the block behind