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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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