My Memoir, Part 19-O: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy https://youtu.be/TqnyTqH55jw "Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver." Mark A. Clement Taking up where I left off in my blog "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald…
Part 19-N: Esther LeBaron Spencer, me and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir, Part 19-N: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy From left to right: My Uncle Ervil M. LeBaron; My father, Floyd Otto Spencer; My mother, Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer; and My husband William Preston Tucker/ Bill The Virginity Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose From his first…
Part 19-M: Esther LeBaron Spencer, me and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir, Part 19-M: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy "To handle your self, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. George Bernard Shaw Taking up where we left off in"My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy -- Part 19-L": Bill's second wife, Lolita, played mouthpiece for "the family" when,…
Part 19-L: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir Part 19-L: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- More Perils of Polygamy Two of Bill's Mormon French-missionary friends, LDS "Saints" "Dick 'n' Peter" "By their friends, ye shall know them." Biblical Adidge Taking up where we left off in "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy, Part 19-K": I said in an earlier…
Part 19-K: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir, Part 19-K: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- and More Perils of Polygamy "True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders." Warren G. Bennis Taking up where we left off in "My Memoir Backstory: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy, Part…
Part 19-J: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir, Part 19-J: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H.G. Wells Taking up where we left off in my last blog, "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy -- Part 19-I": My husband William Preston Tucker/ Bill Had…
Part 19-I: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir, Part 19-I: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy Beulah Stephany Spencer-LeBaron in 1972, age 26, and soon to graduate from UCLA after escaping polygamy in 1967!! "Man, created in God's image and likeness, is not just flesh and blood. The sexual instinct is not all that he has: Man is also,…
Part 19-H: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir, Part 19-H: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy "History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Edward Gibbon I left off in "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy -- Part 19-G" relating how I had come to realize people did not just…
Part 19-G: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir, Part 19-G: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy "Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."…
Part 19-F: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir, Part 19-F: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy "Leadership is not wielding authority – It's empowering people." Becky Brodin I left off in "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy -- Part 19-E" on the following note: I Now know my mother's brother, Ervil LeBaron, was a psychopath and sociopath…
Poem I wrote: Cougar Lives To Love Another Day
Cougar lives to love another day Cougar Lives to Love Another DayBy Stephany Spencer-LeBaron2008Hey King Kay, Your cougar lives To love another day,To further bond With wondrous King Kay.Cougaress never dreamed It could be this way: First he was her friend, Then her boyfriend; Now her husband – Her Kind King Kay.Cougaress lives for him each day.People call her a cougar.You've robbed the…
Part 19-E: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir:Part 19-E:Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, And More Perils of Polygamy Circa 1961: Beulah/Stephany Spencer-LeBaron, age 14, on our homestead in Colonia LeBaron,clotheslines and grapevines in the background An important question for leaders: 'Am I building people, Or building my dreamAnd using people to do it?' John Maxwell I left off in MY MEMOIREsther LeBaron Spencer, Me, And More Perils of Polygamy Part…
Pt 19-D: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy
MY MEMOIRPart 19-D: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me,And More Perils of Polygamy "The successful leader Is the one who makes The right move at the right moment With the right motive."John Maxwell Continued from:MY MEMOIR Esther LeBaron-McDonald-Spencer, Me,And More Perils of Polygamy, Part 19-C NOTE:I'm a poet but my medium is prose In parts of the following memories I disclose: I'm barely sixteen, parked…
Part 19-C: Esther LeBaron- McDonald-Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy
MY MEMOIR Esther LeBaron-McDonald-Spencer, Me and More Perils of PolygamyPart 19-C Nearly all men can stand adversity,But if you want to test a man's character, Give him power. Abraham Lincoln MY MEMOIR Esther LeBaron-McDonald-Spencer Me and More Perils of PolygamyPart 19-C COUSIN HOMER'S KISS In Cousin Homer's kissThere'd be no connubial bliss.Though my first kiss and date,It was barely a kiss and hardly a date.But"Profit"of Evil Ervil…
Pt 19-B: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy
MY MEMOIRPart 19-B Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy The middle photo is the way I remember myUncle Ervil M. LeBaron in the 1960s A wise leader inspires and motivates, rather than intimidating and manipulating.Henry Ford Continuing where we left off in the previous blog,wherein my life was being hijacked in the name of…
Part 19-A: Ma, Pa, Me, and Perils of Polygamy
MY MEMOIRPart 19-A Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me,And the Perils of Polygamy No influence is so powerfulas the that of the mother. Sarah Josepha Hale Picking up from: MY MEMOIREsther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer:Ma 'n' PaPART 18 As I've bemoaned before, Mummsy couldn't live polygamy herself – at least not during her twenty-two years of marriage…
Pt 33: The Mexico-LeBarons and Familial Incest
Pt 33: The Mexico-LeBarons and Familial Incest * My maternal great-grandparents Lucinda Mariah Emmerson and William Wesley McDonald "The heart of the mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."Honore De Balzac Incest on my maternal grandfather Alma Dayer LeBaron's side definitely contributed to the mental illness prevalent in…
Poem I wrote: In Love With a Narc: Unrequited Love
In Love With a Narc: Unrequited LoveBy Stephany Spencer-LeBaron Unrequited Love In Love With a Narc: Unrequited LoveWhy didn't I turn and run the other directionWhen I felt no empathy, Nor genuine affection?Thought I would win this lover over, This sexy simpatico handsome rover.His double-messages took me by storm. He love-bombed me beyond the norm!But this Dr. Jekyll-Mr.…
Review of “It’s Not About the Sex” My Ass!
An update of my January 9, 2017 Review of "It's Not About the Sex" My Ass: Confessions of an Ex-Mormon Ex-Polygamist Ex-Wife: I don't usually do Book Reviews, for lack of time. But this book was so super, I listened to it straight through, on Audible; then listened to it again two times more -- then…
Pt 40-A: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy
Pt 40-A: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy Maud Lucinda McDonald LeBaron on her land in Colonia LeBaron, Mexico; with four of her sons, left to right: Floren, Alma, Verlan, Ervil "When a task is once begun,Never leave it till it's done;Be the labor great or small,Do it well or not at all." A…
Poems/doggerel I wrote: 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…
DAVID M.’S LIFE STORY: (Anna LeBaron’s Half-Brother) The story you are about to read is true.
Caveat … The story you are about to read is true and I never killed anyone unless it was a justifiable homicide. Fulano's Blog Search Guest Blog: David Marston's Life Story (A Brother of Anna LeBaron) Posted on November 7, 2010 Caveat…The story you are about to read is true and I never killed anyone…
Pt 39: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade
Pt 39: Ma, Pa, Me, And Polygamy on Parade My Mother: beautiful brainiac, talented, Esther LeBaron-McDonald Spencer "What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin."Henry Ward Beecher Our habits of perfectionism are deeply harmful: Perfectionism distracts us and keeps us from moving forward, out of a fear of messing up…
Pt 38-A: Esther LeBaron & Floyd Spencer: Fights, Plights, and Physical Punishment
Pt 38-A: Esther LeBaron & Floyd Spencer: Fights, Plights, and Physical Punishment My older sister, twin sisters, and I: Mama had her hands full! When you lead your sons and daughters in the good way, let your words be tender and caressing, in terms of discipline that wins the heart's assent."Elijah Ben Solomon Zalman Whatever…
Pt 36: Mom, Dad, and Dayer LeBaron’s Death
Pt 36: My Mom, Dad, and Dayer LeBaron's Death My mother Esther LeBaron Spencer with the 7 youngest of her 14 children "Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible." Author Unknown In one or two places, my Grandmother Maud LeBaron is recorded as having said: "Joel "must be…
Pt 35-A: Alma Dayer LeBaron, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, and “Who Got the Button?”
Pt 35-A: Alma Dayer LeBaron Lou Gehrig's Diseaseand "Who Got the Button?" Maud Lucinda McDonald LeBaron, Joel Franklin LeBaron, and Alma Dayer LeBaron "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." Cardinal Mermillod Joel Franklin LeBaron -- namesake of his Great-uncle Joel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin Johnson's…
Pt 34: A-P: The Mexico-LeBaron Madmen and Their Messianic Missions
Pt 34-A: Esther LeBaron Spencer, The Mexico LeBarons, and Hearing Voices The young and the old of my Grandpa, Alma Dayer LeBaron "There is only one way to bring a child upin the way he should goand that is to travel that way yourself."Abraham Lincoln IF it's true Grandpa Dayer's grandfather B.F. Johnson held a special…
Pt 34-A: Esther LeBaron Spencer, The Mexico-LeBarons, and Hearing Voices
Pt 34-A: Esther LeBaron Spencer, The Mexico LeBarons, and Hearing Voices The young and the old of my Grandpa Dayer LeBaron "There is only one way to bring a child upin the way he should goand that is to travel that way yourself."Abraham Lincoln IF it's true Grandpa Dayer's grandfather B.F. Johnson said he held a…
Review of My Aunt Rena Chynoweth’s “The Blood Covenant”
This Memoir, written over thirty-five years ago, struck me as the work of an immature apologist and revisionist. Its bias toward my Uncle Ervil's cold-hearted cult hangs like a cobweb over this tale co-authored by my Ex-Aunt, infamous Rena Chynoweth. The last I checked, this book was still in the public libraries. But sadly in…
Pt 32: Esther LeBaron Spencer, The Mexico-LeBarons, and Mental Illness
Pt 32: Esther LeBaron Spencer, the Mexico-LeBarons, and Mental Illness "The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surrounded them;their notions of good and evil are the result ofthe moral atmosphere they breathe."Jean Paul Richter We left off last week with this assertion: People should take responsibility for their actions; not project blame…
Pt 31-D: Esther LeBaron Spencer, The-Mexico-LeBarons, and Mental Illness
Pt 31-D: Esther LeBaron Spencer, The-Mexico-LeBarons, and Mental Illness ~Picking up where we left off on "Pt 31-C: My Mama Esther LeBaron Spencer, The- Mexico-LeBarons, and Mental Illness": X-- Another factor leading to mental problems in the Dayer and Maud LeBaron family is: They held much in because they were supposed to be perfect Mormon…
Pt 31-C: Esther LeBaron Spencer, the Mexico-LeBarons, and Mental Illness
Pt 31-C: Esther LeBaron Spencer, the Mexico-LeBarons, and Mental Illness My maternal Grandpa, Alma Dayer LeBaron "He did the wrong thing for the right reason." Stephany Spencer-LeBaron Repeating what was said in previous blogs, both my mother and Grandmother Maud LeBaron believed the cause of mental illness in their immediate family was mainly due…
Pt 31-B: Esther LeBaron Spencer, The Mexico LeBarons, and Mental Illness
Pt 31-B: Esther LeBaron Spencer, The Mexico LeBarons, and Mental Illness 1920: passport photo of Dayer and Maud LeBaron with their first six out of 13 children they would eventually have "As you work on your memoir, write with fidelity to your own experience while knowing that memory is fallible. Write with respect for your…
Pt 31-A: Esther LeBaron Spencer, the Mexico LeBarons, and Mental Illness
Pt 31-A: Esther LeBaron Spencer, the Mexico LeBarons, and Mental Illness Grandpa Alma Dayer LeBaron and his second oldest daughter Lucinda LeBaron Butchereit "No influence is so powerful as that of the mother." Sarah Josepha Hale As I said in the previous blog, both my mother and maternal grandmother Maud LeBaron believed the cause of mental illness in their…
Pt 21-29: More Memories of My Parents Esther LeBaron and Floyd Spencer
~ Pt 21: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade “Civilization is social ordersupporting cultural creativity.”Will Durant Taking up from "Pt 20-A-J: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade," it bears restating that one of my Mormon fundamentalist sisters who married so many Misters never ever caught on ... never bothered to catch on how to check out, before she…
Me, my twin sisters Judith and Sharon on Mom's lap, and my sister Doris “Home is wherever I'm with you.”“HOME” by Edward Sharpand the Magnetic Zeros “Home,” by Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros https://youtu.be/LzPPAw5tnqs "Home is whenever I'm with you."Edward Sharpe* Beginning where we left off in "Pt 27: More Memories of My Mama Esther…
Pt 27: More Memories of My Parents Esther LeBaron and Floyd Spencer
My father and mother standing on their land "the Galeana Springs" Pt 27: More Memories of My Mom Esther LeBaron and Dad Floyd Spencer "One I love with all my heart,Mother, dear, it's you;And I want to make you glad;Yes, indeed, I do!I will help you every day,Smiling as I go,And I'll never make you…
Pt 26: More Memories of My Mom Esther LeBaron Spencer
Pt 26: More Memories of My Mom Esther LeBaron Spencer My mother Esther LeBaron-McDonald Spencer at age 21 "You can never go home." Sinclair Lewis Another variable in the equivocation, as to Mom's virginity on her wedding night, is the following (Perhaps I'm throwing a hand grenade into the equation?): When I was about fourteen, Momma told…
Pt 25: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Pa, Me, ‘n’ Polygamy
Pt 25: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Pa, Me, 'n' Polygamy My parents and nine of their then 10 children in 1956 or 1957. I'm around 10 or 11 years old in this picture--just got back from cherry-picking in a friend's orchard so my hair is all mussed up. "Never complain about what your parents couldn't give…
Pt 24: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade
Pt 24: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade Life's HighwayTo everyone their openethA way, ways, and a way;And the high soul takes the high way,The low soul takes the low;While in between on the misty flatsThe rest drift to and fro.But to everyone their openethA high way and low.And everyone decidethThe way his soul…
Pt 23: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade
My Memoir: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade -- Part 23 "People see what they want to see till they want to see." Dena McLean (My cousin) I left off in blog, "Pt 22: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade," saying: Mama preached polygamy and told people they would go to hell if they did…
Pt 22: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade
Pt 22: Ma Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade As you work on your memoir,tell your story true, artfully and with courage,writing with fidelity to your own experiencewhile knowing that memory is fallible.Tracy Seeley.My Ruby Slippers, Repeating what was said in "Pt 21: Ma Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade, "I'm not proud of what…
Pt 21: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade
~ Pt 21: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade “Civilization is social ordersupporting cultural creativity.”Will Durant Taking up from "Pt 20-A-J: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade," it bears restating that one of my Mormon fundamentalist sisters who married so many Misters never ever caught on ... never bothered to catch on how to check out, before she…
Pt 20: A-J: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade
Pt 20-A: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy-On-The-Down-Low Tom Weston said you can tell God created people in his own image because he hates all the same people, coincidentally, that you do. (The Christian far-right) I left off in "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On the Down-Low, Part 19-Z" remarking on a trip…
Pt 20-J: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade
Pt 20-J: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade People see what they want to see, believe what they want to believe; It's impossible to reason with an irrational person. Stephany Spencer I left off in "Pt 20-I: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade" saying in the cult I came from, a Mormon fundamentalist man usually…
Pt 20-I: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade
Pt 20-I: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on Parade My family in 1964 -- one sister absent) Abuse: “When fear rules, Obedience is the only survival choice." Toni Morrison "God Help the Child" My parents, though trying prodigiously to do what was right, foolishly spawned a bunch of foot-washing fundamentalist children bound by fear and…
Pt 20-H: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy Parasites
Listen on YouTube to my Aunt Irene (Kunz-LeBaron) Spencer's half-sister, my aunt-in-law Rebecca Kunz Kimbel's outstanding interview of Author Ed Kociela who wrote two excellent books I recommend: "Plygs," and "Plygs 2."* Till we learn from past mistakes, we're bound to repeat them and pass them on to our progeny ad infinitum in the form…
Pt 20-G, Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy Parasites
My Memoir: Pt 20-G, Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy Parasites “Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: The last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor Frankel "Man’s Search for Meaning” Continuing where we left off in "Pt 20-F, Ma,…
Pt 20-F: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on-the-down-low
Pt 20-F: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy on-the-down-low Notes from a Chat Site: "Narcissists make me melt down and cry like a child. It is a remarkable trick Narcissists pull. They are petty and acquisitive -- and have no scruples. They value themselves by how much they can steal from someone else through cunning, manipulation, or simply believing they are…
Pt 20-E: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
"You have to have standards, no matter how low!" Anne Lamott Picking up from the previous blog, "Part 20-D: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low:" Previously I said William Preston Tucker/ AKA: Bill, the 26-year-old polygamist I was pawned off on, was commonly two-faced. It was too important for him to be liked. And in order to be…
Pt 20-D: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
Law 27 "People have an overwhelming desire to believe in something. Become the focal point of such desire by offering them a clause, a new faith to follow. Keep your words vague but full of promise; emphasize enthusiasm over rationality and clear thinking. Give your new disciples rituals to perform. Ask them to make sacrifices on…
Pt 20-C: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
Pt 20-C: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low Advice on How to Handle Overt/ Covert Narcissists: Saying "I do not consent" won't work with narcissists: They don't care about boundaries. They will keep coming at you. Look up "grey rock," quietly let authorities know of the toxic person, and, so you are taken seriously, allude…
Pt 20-B: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
Pt 20-B: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low My parents Esther LeBaron-McDonald and Floyd Otto Spencer "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." Maya Angelou I left off with "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On The Down-Low -- Part 20-A." Let's now backtrack a few blogs…
Pt 20-A: Ma, Pa, Me, and Polygamy-On-The-Down-Low
Tom Weston said you can tell God created people in his own image because he hates all the same people, coincidentally, that you do. (The Christian far-right) I left off in "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On the Down-Low, Part 19-Z" remarking on a trip I went on with Bill to…
Pt 19-Z: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
My Memoir: Part 19-Z: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On The Down-Low Women Beware: Philanderers are Opportunists: Big Pretenders. They will tell anybody anything they want to hear. How can you tell if they're lying? Their lips are moving. If a person will break a marriage contract, he or she will break any…
Pt 19-Y: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
Part 19-Y: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- and Polygamy On The Down-Low A Reflection: Is God then so ignorant of things, so unacquainted with the human heart that He has to find out about a man by testing him? Of course not. It is in order that a person may find out about himself. There are…
Pt 19-X: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
Part 19-X -- Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On-The-Down-Low Online Chat Notes Denote NPD: Narcissistic Personality Disorder Said one woman, "You know, it's so funny: I used to think my Ex was the most kind, loving, good-hearted man I ever met. I used to think he was such a treasure and that I didn't deserve him. When…
Pt 19-W: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
Part 19-W, Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On-The-Down-Low William Preston Tucker and Stephen Silver People don't see what they don't want to see till they want to see. Stephany Spencer Taking up where we left off in, "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On-The-Down-Low, Part 19-V": Being an adolescent nineteen year…
Pt 19-V: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
Part 19-V, Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On-The-Down-Low "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better." Anne Lamott, "Bird by Bird" I left off in "My Memoir: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On-The-Down-Low, Part 19-U"…
Pt 19-U: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and Polygamy On-The-Down-Low
Part 19-U -- Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And Polygamy On-The-Down-Low Left to right: Me, hubby Billy, 1st wife "Overlord" Marilyn, 2nd wife Lolita--both wearing makeup; not I. 'Twas against our religion. "A memoir is your perception of your experience of your involvement in a particular situation in your life. It is not your sister’s, it…
Pt 19-T: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy: My Honeymoon
Part 19-T: Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer And More Perils of Polygamy: My Honeymoon Bill and I "cutting the cake" "The sharing of stories broadens our outlook on life. People identify with and draw strength from reading about the struggles of others. Readers can ‘try on’ the life of the character/s in the story, and see how they would…
Pt 19-S: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy: My Honeymoon
Part 19-S, Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer And More Perils of Polygamy:My Honeymoon Billy and me in 1963, Ages 16 and 26 consecutively “And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love” ― William Blake I left off in "My Memoir: Part 19-R, Esther LeBaron McDonald…
Pt 19-R: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy: My Honeymoon
My Memoirs: Part 19-R, Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy: My Honeymoon My swollen-eyed Honeymoon photo, October 1963. We Honeymooned in a cheap hotel in Chihuahua City, Mexico; no screens on the windows but plenty of mosquitoes. "We all come from the past, and children ought to know what it was that went into…
Pt 19-Q: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy
Part 19-Q -- Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- And More Perils of Polygamy Could This be Bill with his first two wives, "horny toads" in a menage a trois? Sex, drugs, 'n' "rock 'n' roll" -- Rock on! "The truth told with love and consideration is the key. An honest account of what you experienced is…
Pt 19-P: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and More Perils of Polygamy
My Memoir: Part 19-P -- Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer -- More Perils of Polygamy “As I sifted through my memories, my life came to me in bits and pieces, often disconnected, just like my dreams. Even normal memory has gaps, but traumatic memory is even more discontinuous. This is my story, which put…
Pt 43: Esther LeBaron Spencer and Lesbian Love
Pt 43: Esther LeBaron Spencer and Lesbian Love Circa 1935: Esther LeBaron Spencer (right) & companion "All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her." George Washington Pt 43-A: My Mama Esther LeBaron Spencer and Lesbian Love In…
Rebecca Kimbel: Producer, Artist, Ex-Mormon Fundie, Human Rights Advocate, and Community Activist
NOTE: The following is a re-post of a past blog. Since that previous posting, some things have changed: E.g, Rebecca Kimbel recently published her amazing Memoir: Born in Polygamy. I bought the manuscript last week on Amazon.com. I'm now in the process of reading this masterpiece that promises to be the Bible of all books…
William P. Tucker’s Baby and Wife Left to Die by Cult, Sister, & Bill’s Buddy Stephen Silver
28-year-old Bill Tucker and 18-year-old Beulah Stephany Spencer-LeBaron de Tucker with our Six-month-old baby Asenath Marie "Where there's a will, there's a way." William James In July 1967, three months after my/our husband, William Preston Tucker/AKA: Bill Tucker (I say "our" husband because I was one of Bill's three wives), announced to the "church" he…
Memoir: Should Polygamy Be Legal?
MY EXPOSE ON POLYGAMY "Was It really a Divine Revelation from God to Joseph Smith that people had to live this so-called "principle" in order to attain the highest degree of glory in heaven?"* The above question was on the Discussion Board of a mainstream LDS Mormon blog site I happened to run into on…
Pt 1-9: Floyd O. Spencer, Mormon LeBaron Cult Member
PART 1 My Memoir: My Daddy, Floyd Otto Spencer My Daddy, Floyd Otto Spencer, age 19 MY DADDY My Memoir Backstory “My Daddy” takes up where I left off writing “My Memoir Introduction: I Was Born a “Saint.” After I wrote this blog, I realized I'd put the cart before the horse -- started my Memoir bass-ackwards: I got myself…
Pt 1–18: Esther LeBaron Spencer, Me, and Mormon Polygamist Cults Unmasked
A Memoir: FLEEING POLYGAMY: Out of LeBaronism into the Lightby Stephany Spencer-LeBaron PART 1:Esther LeBaron-McDonald Spencer:My Mother: Image “Mother! For love of thee it was begun;In thy most honored name today ’tis done.And though all earthly cares must ceaseIn that fair land of everlasting peace,Love aye is one, and they who love…
Review of Verlan LeBaron and Esther LeBaron Spencer’s “The LeBaron Story”
"The LeBaron Story" is truly a "Vanity Book" -- not only because my uncle Verlan LeBaron paid a publishing company in 1981 (back when self-publishing was not the norm) to publish the book -- but also because it's a revisionistic, apologetic, and biased history of "the Mexico LeBarons;" i.e., my grandparents Maud and Dayer LeBaron and their offspring. What's more,…
Producer, Doris Hanson
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, and also Mormon fundamentalists who have left or escaped the Sect they were raised…
Review of Cousin Anna LeBaron’s “The Polygamist’s Daughter”
By Stephany Spencer: Review of my cousin Anna LeBaron’s Memoir: The Polygamist’s Daughter *Note:This is a re-post Review I wrote three years ago when Anna Le Baron's first Memoir came out. I'm happy to tell you she is now in the process of writing her second book. Follow her on social media sites such as…
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…
Part 42-A: Megalomania and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind
Pt 42-A: Megalomania and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind Handsome Mexico-LeBarons Ervil, Joel, Verlan, Alma, and Floren Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."Eleanor Roosevelt I've long been on a quest to understand the making of the Mexico-LeBaron mind---its need to be number one, the best; in control…
Pt 41-I: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Pt 41-I: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and "More on" LeBaron Madness Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr dancing with one of his many lovely daughters (Courtesy of Mary Bonnelle Taylor) In this blog, I continue with Tumblr-borrowed newsfeeds (See Tumblr for more such; and photos that didn't copy to these following newsfeeds): "The outcome of Thelma Elena…
Pt 41-G: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Part 41-G: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and "More on" LeBaron Madness "People who think they are great, usually aren't"Old adage Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and first wife Thelma Cox (Courtesy of Mary B. Taylor) *NOTE: The following very old newspaper feeds were posted on Tumblr. (See Tumblr for more Photos of these articles. Clicking on…
Pt 41-A: Esther LeBaron Spencer and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Pt 41-A: Esther LeBaron Spencer and "More on" LeBaron Madness My mother Esther LeBaron-McDonald Spencer "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."Ralph Waldo Emerson In "Parts 39--40-B: Esther LeBaron Spencer;Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy," I discussed issues of perfectionism in my grandparents Maud and…
Pt 19: N-Z: Mexico-LeBaron Mormon Cults, Me, and The Perils of Polygamy
*NOTE: I've edited and rewritten parts of the 26-blog "Part 19" series. I have presently broken this rewritten and reposted series into two different parts consisting of 13 blogs each. ("Part 19: A--M" was recently posted.) This blog, "Part 19: N--Z," is the second half of the 26-blog series "Part 19: A--Z." (Also, I've individually posted each blog in this…
Pt 19: A-M: Mexico-LeBaron Mom, Pop, Me, and the Perils of Polygamy
NOTE: I've renamed and reposted today's blog: "Part 19: A-Z – Mom, Pop, Me, and the Perils of Polygamy," Because I've rewritten segments of it. Today's post consists of "Part 19: A-M," To be followed next week by "Part 19: N-Z." (These 26 memoir blogs in my "Part 19" series Exist as individual posts, also.) NOTE: The following…
Poem/Doggerel I wrote: “Ladies Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places”
- Does low self-esteem Cause the womanizer's chase? And is scoring all Ladies' Men Have going for their race? What the fuck, then! What "luck"! Is this their journey on life’s playing field? Then it's best never to them yield. For their dick has a life of its own to wield! Just wish I…
Original Sayings and Doggerel I wrote : From My Pen to Yours
~ Original Sayings 'n' Short Poems From My Pen to Yours I Think Mice Are Very NiceI think mice are very nice. Some people say they have lice ... Leave mouse tracks in their rice.But with pet mice that's quite rare; So I still do declare, I think mice are very nice! ~Stephany Spencer (My first poem,…
ABOUT
Bio of Stephany Spencer-LeBaron ~ Stephany Spencer-LeBaron is a retired teacher on her endless summer – a Creative: Artist, poet, performer, and musician. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico of American parents, she spent most of her life in the Western U.S.; married young, became widowed at twenty-one. Left with a toddler, she raised her while putting herself through College,…
First Blog
My First Blog Beulah Stephany Spencer-LeBaron, 2015, age 69 7/2016 Hi! I'm Stephany Spencer/AKA: Beulah/ Stephany Spencer-LeBaron. Welcome to my little corner of the world-wide web -- my "virtual" piece of internet real estate! Feel free to click about and find out what's useful. If I may be of help, please contact me. I'm…
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