INTRODUCTION I was born some time ago,Way out in the sticks,In a valley of old Mexico,In 1946.(So begins my saga.) “I am conscious that my narrativesavers of incredibility:The fault is in the subject,not in the narrator.”~The City of the Saints,By Richard F. Burton,1861*(Quote borrowed from Irving Wallace'soutstanding biography,"The Twenty-Seventh Wife")1961 The Cards of LifeLife dealt…
Pretty City Chic: A Bit o’ Bio in Verse
Stephany Spencer-LeBaron, age 38 Pretty City Chic Dearest friends and fans,Please note: This tongue-in-cheek song I wrote Is half-finished so I don't gloat,But pray my poem won’t get your goat; It's late -- blog's due “mañana;” Check the song later on ... uh ... You'll find it's been “re-wrote”... "Needs work" is my last quote. But please enjoy…
Thanksgiving Day Medley
Our First Thanksgiving Day: A Thanksgiving Medley Across the Atlantic Ocean, a long time ago Came pilgrims on the Mayflower, a new world to know. Freedom of religion was what they sought; Starvation and illness were problems they fought. But the people worked together, And some friendly Indians taught These pilgrims how to better use…
Bio Ballad in Verse, for Better or Worse
I'm 12, middle row, 2nd to left Bio Ballad in Verse -- for Better or WorseI was born some time ago,Way out in the sticks,In Mexico’s Rocky Mountain Range,The year 1946;Was raised in a Mormon Fundy cult,Where renegade,Self-righteous hicksBelieved it sinfulWith “the world,” to mix.Like the egotistical foolWho'd seldom been…
Review of Ester Shifren’s “Hiding in a Cave of Trunks”
'* Note: The following is a book review I did of an acquaintance's book,"Hiding in a Cave of Trunks." Unfortunately, when I copied and pasted my review, as usual, it didn't turn out looking nearly as nice as it looks on Goodreads.com, but it will do. Read My book review of Esther Shifren’s “Hiding in…
Review of Charlotte LeBaron’s “Maud’s Story”
Post updated.View Post In 2017 I bought and read, on Kindle, Maud's Story, a 2013 self-published or "Vanity Press" book written by my Aunt Charlotte LeBaron (My Uncle Verlan LeBaron's first wife). It's a short biography of Maud Lucinda McDonald LeBaron; but consists mostly of a published collection of letters supposedly written by her* -- and some run-together, often hard-to-decipher…
Review of Luna Lindsey’s “Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control”
(*NOTE: My Review doesn't look as nice as it looks on Amazon.com, from whence I copied and pasted it after I wrote it there. But at least I was able to post it here, for better or for worse. ~Also, below this Book Review is an essay I used by permission of a blogger friend, Bruce Holt.…
Notes, Quotes, Jokes; Pokes, ‘n’ Anecdotes
Bimbo Weeps: I'm sittin' alone in the moonlight, At the Heartbreak Hotel Café, Abandoned by women and men; And here's all I have to say: “I’ll never eat garlic nor onions again -- Not till my dying day --They've driven my possible friends away, Kept romance and intimacy at bay!"By Stephany Spencer BIG LOVE Bimbo…
Bio Ballad of a Cult Survivor: My Bio in Verse, for Better or Worse
My family in 1956 -- I'm in middle row, 2nd from left Bio Ballad of a Cult Survivor:My Bio in Verse, for Better or Worse(by Stephany Spencer) 1- I was born some time ago, way out in the sticks,In a Mormon cult in Mexico, in nineteen forty-six;By the time I was eleven, we were a…
