Intro

I was born in Indiana (USA) between the Spring and Summer Equinox in 1970. Nixon was president...Viet Nam, Watergate. Hiphugger bellbottoms and wooden clogs were in style (as they are again unfortunately as I write this). My mother was not married, that was a BIG no-no back then, so much that my grandmother didn't even know about me until I was a couple of years old.

I have vague memories of Indiana at that young age. I remember thinking the Brady Bunch lived next door and Mr. Green Jeans lived down the street. My mom worked all the time so I stayed with Mrs. Gibbs who lived below us (big house divided into apts). She was elderly..in her 80's at the time, but I loved staying with her. I remember strange things about her...not strange as in she was strange, but strange as in they are odd things to remember...I reacall that she had a large crucifix above her recliner, and that she used to eat lettuce with sugar on it. I remember us walking to the catholic church on Wednesday nights for spaghetti suppers that the nuns made for the needy. When I spent the night with her we always had vanilla ice cream with Hershey's syrup over it before going to bed. We also watched Lawrence Welk together (all the bubbles!).

My mom went to school to be a secretary and she did that gig for a while (where she met my father, how cliche is that?) but as a single mom she ended up quitting that and working 4 or 5 pissy jobs at a time to pay the bills (of course my father didn't pay any child support to help out). My mom loved to watch TV, I remember watching Dark Shadows with her. I've tried watching it as an adult on the Sci-Fi channel, but I honestly think it sux...it would be great if it was updated I think...should I contact Sci-Fi about making a "Sci-Fi Original" series? I may do that actually...

While living in Indiana my mom explored different religions, Buddism, Rosicursionism and a slew of others...I really didn't know much about it until I grew older, being a small child the only thing I knew about religion was that nuns made good spaghetti. She was Wiccan when she died at 29 (leukemia). Another family secret, but unlike ME, this was a secret that was never revealed....Mom was talented at mirror scrying, she used to try and teach me, but I just couldn't do it. She used to try and teach me to move things with my mind...I don't know if she could do that or not, I never saw her. Thinking back, I often wonder if she was just trying to get me to sit still and be quiet for a while :D'

We lived in Indiana until I was 6 and at that time moved to KY where the majority of the family (including my father) lived. During the first grade we lived in a small apt above a drug store down town, I remember the whole bldg was consumed by coch roaches. They would come out in broad daylight without fear. I remember reading books such as Moby Dick and White Fang....I remember getting into trouble for sneaking off to go to the library without telling mom where I was going....I took down my childish poster of Batman to put up a poster of Dracula, my one true love. My first boyfriend Frankie kissed me during recess....I remember Star Wars!

Second grade was uneventful. I had a horrible teacher named Mrs. Vermillion that was way past the age of retirement and mean as a snake. We moved to another apt where I did not have access to the library :( I was devistated as I could never get enough books...I remember an astrological chart on the wall above a GIANT statue of buddah on the table by the front door. The house was haunted and hands would reach out of the floor to try and pull me down into the "Underworld". I slept-walked alot and talked in my sleep in that house. We didn't stay there long, thank the Goddess, we moved into a trailor in the trailor park down the road from our old apt. Yeah, a trailor park...at least we had the biggest trailor of them all! I don't remember anything about that trailor except it was white,, I DO remember that my cousins trailor (a few above us) flooded terribly.

The summer after the 2nd grade my mom was hospitalized for what they thought was appendicitis...it wasn't...It just occured to me that maybe she lied to the family in order to keep them from worring over her...Hmmmm....Anyway, my mom had just successfully sued the pants off my father and she took the money and bought tickets for Gray Hound & we spent the entire summer traveling all over the US! We met lots of "interesting" people. I learned how to spell Mississippi. I went through one activity book after another...