Oh, Just To Be Me! (A poem from my Diary as an adolescent Mormon girl)I’m in middle row, 2nd to leftRelated Oh, Just To Be Just Me!I was born some time agoWay out in the sticksIn a Mormon colony in MexicoIn nineteen-forty-six.My parents moved to the U.S.When I was only one –Right after The Great DepressionAnd…
NOTE: The following is a Review of The Sound of Gravel, a Memoir by my cousin Ruth Wariner.(“Wariner” is Ruth’s MOTHER’S maiden name. My mother’s brother self-proclaimed Prophet Joel LeBaron was Ruth’s father.) By Stephany Spencer-LeBaron:I’ve read once, listened thrice to Ruth Wariner’s book, The Sound of Gravel, giving it higher ratings with each read. So it paid to peruse her Memoir more than…
Poemby Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: PONDREIN' and WANDERIN': Conversation With Self Ponderin' 'n Wanderin':A Conversation with SelfAt seventy-one I'm hungBy protruding nailsOn my ladder's last rung,Wonderin' what else I might've won.Should I try for more Before Life's done?Or should I commit to recreation,Cease ambition and aspiration;Cease trying to make more of myself;Simplify life, put struggle on the…
Review by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: THE LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS by Ethel Ann Schaffer The Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a spicy memoir written by gorgeous nonagenarian Ethel Ann Shaffer who reconnected at eighty with a classmate, fell in love, and got married. In this steamy story, Ethel Ann shares with honesty what…
Farewell to Floren McDonald LeBaron: The Last of The LeBarons FLOREN MCDONALD LEBARONThe Last FarewellIN MEMORIAM "THE BEST IS YET TO COME!"(My Uncle Floren's favorite saying)~~~On February 17, 2019, Two months before his 92nd birthday, Floren McDonald LeBaron Left this earthly helmTo join his familyIn a heavenly realm. Fourth youngest of thirteen children, Floren was my favorite uncle,A one-of-a-kind.They broke the form When he was…
THE SANDS OF MY HOURGLASS FIGUREIN MY TIMEBy Stephany Spencer-LeBaron THE SANDS OF MY HOURGLASS FIGUREIN MY TIMEThe sands of my hourglass figure Gradually disfiguring meSay my time is almost up, I've little left To complete Life's journey.Still Time ticks away the minutesLike the handsOn my inner circadian clock.I can't make the sands stop,Nor my heart Pit-pattering tick-tockLike…
MY LIFE'S A WRECK Photo by Christopher More on Pexels.com My LIFE'S A TRAIN WRECKMy life's been something of a wreck, Thanks to moronic Fundy fools Who raised me in "Heck"! Distress and deprivation Have often been the worst! Wonder why I've been so cursed. Though lately my life has reversed'Cause I regularly rehearse Gratitude,…
LIFE'S DASH My Cousin the Famous Eddie LeBaron There'll be two dates on your tombstoneAnd all your friends will read ‘em;But all that's going to matterIs that little dash between ‘em.Kevin Welch LIFE'S DASHby Stephany Spencer-LeBaron1- Between the dates of birth and death,There's always a little dash –To me it depicts life's runtimeSo I call the line life's…
Poems/songs I Wrote: 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…
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