I thank God every day for spell check.  Maybe more people should invest in it?

So... who's gonna tell Dave?

How many people in this neighborhood will notice? (I barely did. I made Richard turn around to be sure I saw what I saw, and then to take a picture for proof.)

I want to go through my processes, but I don't want to be processed. I don't want to end up on the other end, looking like everyone who went before me,... or will come after me.

I want to be more than just another... mother, friend, sister, co-worker, companion, wife, bitch, crazy lady... writer, author, millionaire... I want to be something that no other person in this world has ever been before... dazzling and spectacular... or maybe not, but different still.

Every time I take another step, I still can't shake the feeling that there's got to be so much more... lead the way.

(I bet you thought this was going to be about meatballs.) 

"The Yearning for Zion ranch, owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was raided two weeks ago by state authorities in search of a 16-year-old girl who claimed her husband beat and raped her.

Child welfare officials have removed all 416 children living there from the custody of their parents. The 16-year-old has yet to be found."

Just as an unspoken rule, people tend to hate, loathe, abhor, utterly despise anything that isn't like them... anything that doesn't fit the "norm", and will go to great lengths to squash out what they disapprove. With that being said, I hope Children's Protective Services in Eldorado,Texas burns in hell...  and I said that without batting an eyelash. Let me explain:

I do NOT have a problem with them conducting an investigation regarding the Eldorado, Texas religious sect that may or may not be abusing their children. However, I do have a problem with the way the state, county... whoever is in charge of this "investigation', is going aobut their business at hand.

I was watching the "Today Show" this morning, where one of the sect-families said they have five kids. Two kids are in one part of Texas. Two more are in another part of Texas, and one is off alone in yet another part of Texas. The mother said she literally has children at the top of Texas and the bottom of Texas, "and Texas is a pretty big state." One daughter is 23-years-old and is being held against her will because "authorities" don't believe she is 23. Her mother gave documentation to support the girl's age, and they simply disregarded it. Another child has not been assigned a case worker and, because of this, has not had visitation with her parents since this entire ordeal started.

Is everyone guilty of child abuse and polygamy? Are the male children in danger too? Wouldn't it have been easier, and a lot better, to establish a No-Contact order against the men than remove all the children? How well was this bullshit thought out? Or is it that because these people are so different from the "norm" that no one cares how humanely or inhumanely they are treated?

*sniff..... sniff.....*

Do you smell that? ... smells like smoke.