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…
COUSIN HOMER'S KISS From my Memoir Blog: Part 19-C:Esther LeBaron Spencer – And More Perils of Polygamy(See: stephanyspencer.com) Beulah Stephany Spencer-LeBaron in 1962, age 16 on our ranch in Colonia LeBaron, Chihuahua, Mexico. Nearly all men can stand adversity,But if you want to test a man's character, Give him power.Abraham Lincoln COUSIN HOMER'S KISSIn Cousin Homer's kissThere'd be no connubial bliss.Though my first…
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…
ADVERSITY'S STRENGTHENINGby Stephany Spencer-LeBaronI was born into a cult.When I fled that sect I'd known,I was shunned, demonized,Left on my own.Presently I'm steeped in pain,Purpose that once shownNow faces the abyssSitting on a throne.The vicissitudes of lifeHave left me loss full-blown,Heartaches unquenchable,And so alone!Come! End this anguish!Put Justice in its place!Do not tarry long.I can't…
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 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, though my…
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,…
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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