My Brilliant Uncle Ben Gone Bonkers Instrumental:A memoir of madness, medication, and musicJames Rhodes In blog "Pt 34-J," I discussed the novelty of my Grandpa Dayer LeBaron and his son Ben -- and probably his son Ross Wesley Sr., too [1] -- holding concurrently the Johnson mantle/Right of the Firstborn/OM&S scepter of power.That's not only…
Pt 34-K: The LeBaron Madmen: Button, Button: Who’s Got the Button?
Musician, Writer, and Mormon Fundi, Esther LeBaron-McDonald Spencer "Whether your memoir ever gets published isn't finally the point. There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with getting published. Whatever we call the form–autobiography, memoir, personal history, Family history–writing about one's life is a powerful human need."Writers are the custodians of memory, and…
Pt 34-I: The LeBaron Madmen: Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?”
Hangdog-face Pedo-plyg Alex Joseph with his 12-year-old child bride---part of his harem [1] "I was once the world's greatest polygamist and I got cut out by Alex Joseph. He is smarter than I am. He's got more wives than I have ... He's in the herb business ... Ginseng ..."Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr [2] I…
Poetry & Songs by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: Bio Ballads in Verse for Better or Worse
Circa 1958: 11 of my parents' ultimately 14 children(I'm age 12, middle row, 2nd to left) Bio Ballad in Verse for Better or Worseby Stephany Spencer-LeBaronI was born some time agoAway out in the sticksIn Mexico’s Rocky Mountain RangeIn 1946.Then raised in Mormon Fundy cultsWhere self-righteous hicksThink it sinfulWith…
Media of Stephany Spencer- LeBaron’s Extended Family, Friends, and Fundamentalist Mormon Cults
Media on My Extended Family, Friends and Fundamentalist Mormon Cults Note: Much of what I have posted here was posted years ago. I've not updated it although I know there is much more I could now Post if time allowed. E.g.: Daughters of the Cult, a Docuseries on Hulu. Deliver Us From Ervil, a Podcast…
Poetry by Stephany Spencer- LeBaron: My Life’s a Wreck!
LIFE'S A SHIP WRECK! LIFE'S A SHIP WRECKMy life's a shipwreck! Or should I conclude That ship has sailed Like two ships passing in the night Coming unglued? I could say Life's a train wreck. Or has that train Left the station too, Like two trains Passing a wreck or two? I've lived a long time ...…
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…
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…
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 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: My Mama Esther LeBaron Spencer and Lesbian Love In…
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…
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 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…
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-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…
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-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-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 41-F: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Pt 41-F: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and "More on" LeBaron Madness Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr's son Ross LeBaron Jr with first wife Diana Leany *NOTE: An acquaintance sent the following interesting but old news clipping she found on Tumblr: "Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr's oldest son, Ross LeBaron Jr, famously has his own cult in which…
Poetry by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron:Homage to Detective Sam Brower, Author of “Prophet’s Prey:” A Chronology of Warren Jeffs, the FLDS, and Short Creek/Colorado City
Author and Private Investigator Sam Brower The Book "Prophet's Prey," was authored by outstanding LDS Mormon Leader, Activist, Detective, and Private Investigator Sam Brower. It is among the best books written on life within Mormon fundamentalist clans and enclaves. A film by the same title, "Prophet's Prey," opened in theaters on September 18th, 2017, based on…
Song I helped write: Short Creek/ Colorado City, Arizona-Utah: “They Changed the Name of Our Hometown”
Sing your song, Dance your dance, Tell your tale. ---Frank McCourt, Modern-day Dickens, Author of best-selling classics: Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, and Teacher Man They Changed the Name of Our Hometown* 1— They changed the name of our hometown the other day, But in the hearts of some Short Creek will always stay; The cliffs so high, the…
Pt 40-C: Esther LeBaron Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy
1953 Short Creek Raid arrest of my Fundy, 58-year-old father Floyd Otto Spencer; in front of our rock home in Short Creek, Arizona (Courtesy of Utah State Historical Society) Pt 40-C: Esther LeBaron Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy UTAH POLYGAMY: PANDORA'S BOXAlthough the box is full of evils, we must remember there…
Pt 40-B: Esther LeBaron Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy
Pt 40-B: Esther LeBaron Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy Gifted Susan Ray Schmidt was part of my Uncle Verlan LeBaron's harem. After escaping polygamy, she penned the above super memoir. Her writer's voice reads like a 19th-century Jane Austen novel. “The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing…
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 35a–38c: More LeBaron- Spencer Family History
Pt 35a--38c: More LeBaron-Spencer Family History “The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.” ― Francis Bacon 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 Sr "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but…
Rebecca Kimbel: Producer, Artist, Ex-Mormon Fundy, Human Rights Advocate, and Community Activist
NOTE: The following is a re-post of a past blog post. Since that previous posting, some things have changed: E.g., Rebecca Kimbel recently published her monumental 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…
Pieces by Stephany Spencer- LeBaron: 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…
Part 42-A–E: Megalomania and Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind
Pt 42-A:Megalomania and theMaking of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind Handsome Mexico-LeBarons Ervil, Joel, Verlan, Alma, and Floren Somehow we learn who we really areand 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 of everyone---and always…
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 by Stephany Spencer- LeBaron: THE LEBARON STORY by Esther LeBaron Spencer and Verlan LeBaron
Joseph Smith, Benjamin Franklin Johnson, Alma Dayer LeBaron, and Joel Franklin LeBaron Review by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: THE LEBARON STORY by Esther LeBaron Spencer and Verlan LeBaron"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…
Memoir: Chapter 1: My House of Cards
The Cards of Life Life dealt me cards — I played my hand With confidence — I had it planned … When, later, life revealed the score It shook me to my very core! I wondered then — still wonder now: Could I have changed my life somehow? And — if life dealt this hand…
Memoir Introduction: I Was Born a “Saint”– a Slave!
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…
Review by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: MAUD’S STORY by Charlotte LeBaron
In 2017, I bought and read Maud's Story, a 2013 self-published/Vanity Press book written by my Aunt Charlotte LeBaron -- my Mother's brother Verlan LeBaron's first wife. It's a short book consisting mainly of letters supposedly written by Maud Lucinda McDonald LeBaron* -- letters run-together in often hard-to-decipher paragraphs more akin to vignettes. It appears, at the time of this book's…
Poetry by Stephany Spencer- LeBaron: My Hypnotic-Regression “Rebirthing” Session: Nascency in Mexico Down Past the Rio Grande
My Hypnotic-Regression "Rebirthing" SessionIn 1986 I learned it was possible to be hypnotized and taken back to the moment I was born. Being a curious person undergoing personal growth, self-discovery, and healing, I hired an excellent psychotherapist who specialized in doing psychological “Rebirthings.” Through my hypnotic-regression session, this licensed Mental Health Provider guided me back to the…
Media of Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: Famous ‘n’ Infamous Relatives
Famous 'n' InfamousRelatives "We all come from the past,and children ought to know what it wasthat went into their making."Russell Baker The following book by Diana Spencer's brother, Charles Spencer, the ninth Earl of England, chronicles the story of his Royal family. It may be of interest to Spencer families and anyone related…
Pieces by Stephany Spencer- LeBaron: 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, 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…
Review by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: 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 some years ago when Anna Le Baron's first Memoir came out. I hear she's now in the process of writing her second book. Follow her on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. And…
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…
Part 42-E: Megalomania and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind
Part 42-E:Megalomania and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind 1953 Short Creek, Arizona Raid:My Mormon fundy mummy Esther LeBaron Spencer under arrest--her seven barefoot urchins in the forefront---plus another past-due in her tummy (Courtesy of Utah Historical Society) "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as…
Part 42-D: Megalomania and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind
Part 42-D:Megalomania and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind Circa 1964: My mother Esther LeBaron Spencer Leaving a cult is a lot likedriving at night with your headlights on:You may only see a few feet in front of you,but you can make the whole journey that way.Stephany Spencer-LeBaron(Takeoff from E. L. Doctorow): "Writing a novel…
Pt 42-C: Megalomania and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind
Pt 42-C: Megalomania, and the Making of the Mexico-LeBaron Mind Circa 1942: My mother Esther LeBaron McDonald de Spencer "Whatever we call the form–autobiography, memoir, personal history, family history–writing about one's life is a powerful human need.Writers are the custodians of memory, and memories have a way of dying with their owner.If it's a family…
Pt 41-M: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Pt 41-M: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and "More on" LeBaron Madness Circa 2003: Stephany Spencer-LeBaron, age 57;36 years after fleeing polygamy and the cult "There are no heros. Only heroic decisions. You are never further than one decision away from making a difference. It doesn't matter whether it is a big difference or if it…
Pt 41-L: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Pt 41-L: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and "More on" LeBaron Madness My gifted, crazy, creative Uncle Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."Winston Spencer Churchhill Continued from "Pt 41-L: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and "More on" LeBaron Madness":The following exhibits come from gifted Uncle…
Pt 41-k: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Pt 41-k: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and "More on" LeBaron Madness gifted, crazy, creative Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr “Polygamy attracts the type of men who do not wish to be accountable to anyone; least of all their wives. Marriage was not a partnership.”Karen MILLER: "My Life as a Sister Wife" *Continued from "Pt 41-J: Ross…
Pt 41-J: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Pt 41-J: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and "More on" LeBaron Madness Circa 1921: Dayer and Maud M. LeBaron with first 6 of eventually 13 children to come;Back row, L. to R: Ben, Alma, Irene, JennyFront row: Ross Wesley Sr and Lucinda The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived, and dishonest–but…
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-E: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Pt 41-E: Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr and "More on" LeBaron Madness My Aunt Thelma Cox and Uncle Ross Wesley LeBaron Sr (Thanks to Mary B. Taylor, Courtesy of the Cox family) People who don't have the ability to discern truth will never be able to recognize me as the world's greatest prophet"Ross Wesley LeBaron sR…
Pt 41-D: Esther LeBaron Spencer and ‘More on’ LeBaron Madness”
Pt 41-D: Esther LeBaron Spencer and 'More on' LeBaron Madness" My Bipolar-compromised uncle, Benjamin T. LeBaron I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you’re not ready for Big Love.What you’re ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.” Bruce H. Lipton, The Honeymoon…
Pt 41-B: Esther LeBaron Spencer and “More on” LeBaron Madness
Pt 41-B: Esther LeBaron Spencer and "More on" LeBaron Madness" Five of the seven "One Mighty and Strong" Mexico-LeBaron brothers (Left to right: Floren, Alma, Verlan, Joel, and Ervil) Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see; and they will not be a substitute for…
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 39–40-E: Esther LeBaron Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy
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 40-E: Esther LeBaron Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy
Pt 40-E: Esther LeBaron Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy My beautiful mother Esther LeBaron Spencer, second row, right, in front of our rock house; being arrested during 1953 Short Creek Raid; her then seven kids at front; another in her belly past due. Abraham Lincoln ran on the Republican Platform of ending…
Pt 40-D: Esther LeBaron Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy
Pt 40-D: Esther LeBaron Spencer: Ma, Pa, Me, and Pitfalls of Polygamy Circa 1956: My parents and 9 of their ultimately 14 kids; shortly after leaving Short Creek, Arizona to live in nearby Hurricane, Utah Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. Anaïs…
Stephany Spencer- LeBaron’s Family Photos, Page 3
Please note: When I have sufficient time, I will write under each picture the names of the people therein.
Relatives of Stephany Spencer- LeBaron, page 2
Please note: I have barely begun to post a few photos of family and relatives. There is much more to come down the line. And when I have time, I will better organize the layout of these pictures, plus add names of who the people are in the photos; so you know better what you're looking at.…
Photos of Stephany Spencer- LeBaron’s Relatives, Page 1
Note: When I have sufficient time, I will organize these pictures into relevant groups, writing names of who the people are.
Memoir: An Apology As To Name Changes, etc.
Dear readers, please note: I have changed names in my Memoirs, in various cases, to protect the innocent -- mainly myself! I also acknowledge that in writing my memoir blogs, I know I can't avoid hurting my family, relatives and past friends I grew up with. Anything I say at all against their…
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…
STEPHANY SPENCER-LEBARON: 