Apr 27 2012
Trust In Me! Don’t buy the Devil’s Sell or Your Life Can Become Pure Hell. I didn’t spot that slogan on any road sign, interstate billboard nor am I quoting the saying off any church display. It simply popped into my head while sitting at the Easter Vigil on April 7th, 2012. I was bent …
Apr 26 2012
Amy VonAllmen spent her teenage years in Western New York. As a teenager, she worked at the 7 Eleven not far from her house. Upon high school graduation, she enrolled at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York. It wasn’t until 2006 that she relocated to the South and called Atlanta, Georgia home. As a way …
Apr 06 2012
When I awakened the morning of April 6th, 1994, for some reason, I just knew it wasn’t going to be an ordinary day. I had slept late and didn’t crawl out of bed until around eight a.m. Having no food in my pantry or refrigerator, I slipped out of my night shirt, threw it in …
Mar 27 2012
Many great memories were made near the The Don Cesar Hotel on St. Pete Beach! I was offered a court reporting job in Florida. Instead of the owner of the agency persuading me to take the position, it was actually a public defender, who I came to know while interning with a fellow co-worker in …
Mar 21 2012
Some might gasp and gulp at the fact that – having lived only five hours away – I’d never been to New Orleans. So on March 16th, 2012, a friend – who’d also never visited The Big Easy – road tripped to Louisiana to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Upon arrival, we wasted no time checking …
Mar 06 2012
Trying to pinpoint why I was so sad on such a beautiful spring-like March Monday was beyond my comprehension. I was caught up with work. My taxes were completed, such a lifted burden. I had had a great weekend. Yet, there was an emptiness inside my soul that I could not define. After lunch, I …
Mar 04 2012
With all the talk these days about celebrities throwing up their middle finger, I want to share my extraordinary story wherein I used the same gesture. Background details from January 1992 as follows… If it wasn’t enough that I’d moved from St. Petersburg, Florida two hours east down I-4 to Orlando, once I arrived at …
Feb 20 2012
Years ago, I resided at an apartment complex that I would swear was built out of cardboard and sand. Being on the lower level, I could hear every footstep the couple above me took. Obviously, the apartments had not been upgraded or renovated since being built because the concrete in the floor of the unit …
Feb 16 2012
No one will ever forget Saturday afternoon, August 31st, 2007 when news broke that Diana, The Princess of Wales, had been involved in a car crash. The world gathered before their television sets, in the hopes that the information being given would either turn out to be false or the accounts of the injuries sustained …
Feb 13 2012
No one can ever know the surprises a day will bring. Roll the clock back to October 2011. I was online and in the phone directory trying to locate the address and/or number of an old friend whom I had been separated from for ten years. Her name was Portia, and she was the landlord …
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