Testing The Waters

"A Life, Taken" is inspired by my personal experience with sexual abuse. Before writing this story I never spoke about what happened to me as a child. Sitting down to write my story wasn't a conscious choice it was more like I was led to do so by a force greater than myself. I had no idea the effect it would have on me and my life. I can still remember the day I finished the first draft (over year ago), somehow I felt lighter, like a w eight had b e en lift ed. I know now that by writing my story and getting it out I had dropped the heavy weight of shame I had been clinging to all these years. My silence insured that I held tightly to this shame as if it were some kind of life preserver instead of what it really was - a 10 ton weight. I chose to stay quiet and not speak about what happened to me. I thought this would make it "go away".  Boy was I wrong.   This is like putting a bag of garbage in a closet in the ho...

  Sadly, we have become a nation of SAMENESS. We live in a time of Homogenized TV and Political Correctness -it makes me wanna SCREAM! It's like High School all over again - you remember High School and its Social Structure; where only a select few are chosen to represent "THE NORM" and everyone that falls short of the standard are labeled "NOT GOOD ENOUGH", "FREAK" etc. Those were fun days weren't they????? How have we become a Nation where it appears EVERYONE is buying their cloths at "The Gap" The Individual is not celebrated anymore... I sadly wasn't old enough to be raised during the PUNK era - but man are we in serious need of that fad coming back... Sorry to ramble...I will get on with it... This morning I watched the interview Mel Gibson gave and I JUST LOVED IT... When I watched it I gotta say it was better than drinking my ritualistic morning cup of coffee. Mel has always been and still is not afraid to speak "his own t...