Autobiography

Fresh Beginnings ( Pt 3 )

Dear diary...my first year working at the car parts factory went pretty quickly. With Christmas coming and going, the festive season had been much...
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Poem of the week

The Return

Another piece by my daughter, Julia (Overthetop1). It's important to me that she lives on through her writing so I am wading through a fat file - some scribbles on backs of envelopes, others neatly typed. Not an easy task, but an essential one. Coral Jane (seashore)
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Selfies

You extroverts make me look boring your audiences always applauding we're blind to each other's colour on the way From your selfie stick to my...
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Eighteen part one

Depression. The word gets thrown around so much these days that its almost commonplace to know someone with it, or who claims they have it. Ditto...
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Fresh Beginnings ( Pt 2 )

Dear Diary...one of my fondest memories of when I was in the Woman's Refuge back in the early 1980s, was when I and some of the other women would sit...
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Grow up or give up.

We all make mistakes. I'm not sure of this is one of them.

Leggings - Last three weeks...

Leggings, Lets meet up... I've been....

Des Moines, 1979

Chapter 1 The shoes in the corner smelled like iron. Perhaps I compassionately sensed the last vestiges of slaughter from the tanned leather that was...
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Fresh Beginnings

Dear Diary...There were times in my life where I never thought I'd settle down, constantly searching for new challenges, wanting to experience as...