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Poetry by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: Ode To Chava Chavarin And The Tres Camarones Team

Tres Camarones = Three Shrimp Dr. Luis Alberto Urrea’s audiobook Into the Beautiful Northinspired my following lyrics: Ode To Chava Chavarin*And The Tres Camarones Teamby Stephany Spencer-LeBaron Hey!What's in a name?I can't say,But the vowels“Chava Chavarin”Ring in my ears today,Though I finishedListening to the novel yesterday.Like music in the rain,This sonorous nameIs motivating my muse'sPenning poems for play!So what's in a…

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Review By Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: The Sound of Gravel, a Memoir by Ruth Wariner

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…

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Review by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: Luna Lindsey’s “Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control”

Review by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron: Luna Lindsey's "Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control" Luna Lindsey "Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control"By Luna Lindseyon FaceBook In October 2016 I discovered the excellent writer Luna Lindsey. Then I learned she had written and published a book I, an ex-Mormon fundamentalist, needed to…

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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 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…