On Emotions Practicum
Chapter Two of Revival finds me living single in Redding, California. I experience adventures in dating for a few years. I also have...
On Trust
Book 2 Revival opens Chapter One with me settling into dorm life at Shasta College at sixteen years old in 1984. I find a competent...
On The Shades of Success and Getting Help
This chapter, the final one in Book 1: Survival, details my stay at my new group home, Stepping Stones in Redding, California. This was...
On Foster Care
This chapter details my stay in County Mental Health. Two male staff members who work there mess with me. One just says inappropriate...
On Real Help
I have been sent to live with my father for my second semester of high school, where I realize that I am far behind my classmates. I...
On the Black Sheep of the Family and Telling the Truth
Fourteen and in high school, I am disappointed. High school doesn’t live up to the hype. I rarely see my mother. She becomes involved...
On Finding a Safe Haven
(I'm finally posting on time! I rediscovered my iPhone's alarm feature--yay, me!) At age thirteen, I go back to camp in Colorado. I am...
On Death
At age thirteen, I continue to attend middle school. The death of my grandmother, my mother’s mother, rocks my family. I attend my...
On Children in Counseling and Abuse
(Author's note: I somehow got myself out of order. This post should be transposed with my last post. Sorry.) In Chapter Seven, I get...
On listening
In Chapter Eight, I graduate from sixth grade. My uncle Michael takes me fishing with him. I help my mother move into her new house,...
