I recommend listening to Doris Hanson's YouTube interviews. She had her own independent TV show for many years. Now she produces her shows on YouTube.I've learned much from listening to these excellent interviews she has done of especially mainstream Mormons, but also Mormon fundamentalists who have left or escaped the Sect/Cult they were raised in.…
Memoir: I won and I Lost … Or How More Is Less
My family in 1958 (I'm 2nd to left, middle row) (NOTE: Not Hurricane High School: But this photo is the best depiction I could find of how I recall Hurricane High back when I attended 6th-8th grades there, between 1957--1960.) A Memoir Story by Beulah Stephany Spencer-LeBaron It was the 1959–1960 school year in small-town…
Pieces by Stephany Spencer LeBaron: SB102: Legalizing/Decriminalizing Polygamy
Circa 1962: Three weeks after I was married off in an arranged marriage, at age 16 to 26-year-old Mormon polygamist William Preston Tucker--who already had two other wives--one 6 years older and the other 15 years older than I. On Feb 10, 2020, a Bill was on the table in the Utah senate to reduce…
Poetry/Song by Stephany Spencer- LeBaron: “Painted Spring:” Take-off from Spanish Traditional Song “De Colores”
A Lesson Too Late In The Learning: Write It or Regret It Recently, at the California Writers Club, a fellow poet and guest speaker, Deborah Edler Brown, advised: "At the moment of inspiration, record it. Don't wait! For it's like babies lost you can never retrieve if you don't record your inspiration when it comes."…
STEPHANY SPENCER-LEBARON: 