Chapter Six: Violets and Bulls in the Graveyard

by | Nov 9, 2011 | Amazing Grace

After my long illness, deep changes in my metabolism emerged and the beginning of life-long health issues started to manifest in full force.  For the next three decades, I seldom felt completely well again.  This is typical for people with auto-immune disorders, as I...
Chapter Five: Jane Eyre Redux

Chapter Five: Jane Eyre Redux

by | Nov 9, 2011 | Amazing Grace

Mother’s new religious zeal was fine with me.  I loved Sunday school, the stories the teacher told with illustrations on the felt board, and singing, and just the whole feeling.  I was reading the Bible (in bits and pieces), and God was taking care of us now for...
Chapter Five: Jane Eyre Redux

Chapter Four: Dead Babies and Iron Skillets

by | Nov 9, 2011 | Amazing Grace

Grandpa decided to arrange for Tom and me to stay with Aunt and Uncle, my mother’s brother and his wife, in Sarasota.  In this way, Mother could keep working on legal problems and we would be “safe”. My aunt put us back in school, I contracted...
Chapter Five: Jane Eyre Redux

Chapter Two: The Lost Boys and Girls

by | Nov 8, 2011 | Amazing Grace

Families are somewhat like planetary systems. In a certain terrain and atmosphere, the members develop and evolve based on the resources available. It seems to me, after all these years, that it’s impossible to understand the deep inner nature of anyone without...