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Home Is Where The Heart Is...

8/9/2016

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​After celebrating 10 years of marriage this past weekend with my husband, Clay, I am humbled, extremely happy and proud. Family means more to me than just a group of people you are related to. Family ties run deep for me and always will. Although my definition of family has changed over the years, and is still in a state of evolution, as I find age has given me the wisdom to expand the definition of “family” to meet personal needs and who will make up my family. 

​I never thought that being a father was something I would experience, but when I married Clay, I also took a vow to be a father to his two children, Nathan and Nataya. As the years passed, laws were fought, challenged, and finally defeated, a constitutional amendment made it so the nation recognized our marriage. This change and recognition had far reaching effects. This meant that I could adopt Nathan and Nataya without Clay having his rights terminated on his adult children. Yes, you heard me right, adult children. If I had adopted Nathan and Nataya prior to the Supreme Court overturning the law that banned same sex marriage, Clay’s rights would have been terminated. Asinine for sure. But the story doesn’t end there. A young adult had entered our lives a few years back, and her name is Lupe. Lupe had touched the heart and soul of our family, had become one of “ours,” just like Nathan and Nataya. When I was able to adopt Nathan and Nataya, the law now cleared the way to allow both Clay and myself to adopt Lupe as well. 


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Convoluted story to tell, and even more complicated to write down, but little did we know that what we were doing was monumental and life changing for our kids, but it was for the state of Oklahoma, and even the national foster care system. The adoption was picked up by a Tulsa World reporter and columnist, Ginnie Graham, and was published in the Tulsa World and The Oklahoman. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), did a feature article on the same sex marriage adoption, that coincided with Lupe being awarded the White House Champion of Change for her tireless work in educating, reforming and giving back to a system she grew up in. You can still go onto the White House website and read about Lupe being awarded the Champion of Change award and Lupe’s blog published on the White House website.

I think that Brandon Burnett told the story of our family the best. What started out as a high school senior project for an aspiring film student with the Tulsa World article in his hands became a story that has the potential to change many lives. You see, some people are still looking for their “Forever Families” and have yet to find them, but our family found forever, when two men met, fell in love, got married, one adopted one child, while the other adopted three, add a son-in-law and a granddaughter, and they live happily ever after. 

​Even when one has found their forever family, stereotypes and bigotry rear their ugly heads, as was evident by NBC’s Al Trautwig being criticized for his ignorant and misspoken words on Simone Bile’s adoptive parents. Trautwig tweeted “they may be mom and dad but they are NOT her parents,” but his tweet has since been removed following the bombardment of criticism he was faced with. Such irresponsible remarks have no room in today’s discussion involving adoptions and even adult adoptions.
Through Brandon’s eyes, our family story was captured into a beautiful, tear at your heart story, of how a young girl, who grew up in the foster care system in Arizona, found her forever family at the beautiful age of 32.

​Brandon told it so well, that he was awarded 2nd prize winner of the 2016 C-Span Student Cam, Gold Medal Awards from Scholastic Arts and Writing for Regional and National. He was recognized at Carnegie Hall on June 2nd. Home, was accepted into the 2016 LA Film Festival and Brandon was the only high school student that was selected to showcase his short documentary at the DeadCenter Film Festival.
​Sit back for 8 minutes and listen as our daughter brings it Home.
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AHS: Hotel, Breaking Down 2 - 4

11/4/2015

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​AHS: Hotel Episode Two
Opening scene:
JBW: We aren’t going for the art dumbass, we are going for the hunt.
Lupe: I’m in love with Liz Taylor’s robe. Totally freaked out by the kid blood bank.
Clay: Quit thinking about it and eat your juice and cookies.
Second scene:
JBW: Stay off the internet….it will just make your head spin.
Don’t bend over in room 64.
Getting high used to be how you imagined heaven…pure light…even in me…I got lost…kept climbing higher and higher.
Lupe: He was just numbing himself from his job…made me think of Lamar Odom overdosing.
Clay: Hanging onto your sobriety like it’s the last train out of dodge…bring him a ginger ale Cleopatra.
Third scene:
JBW: Skinny jeans is out, fringe is in…poncho’s are forever.
Lupe: I want talking with my eyes lessons from the Countess…call me Lady LuLu.
Clay: If you have lost one child, I would think you pay more attention to the second.
Fourth Scene:
JBW: I made a rule to stay away from junkies, but I am going to make an exception for you.
Lupe: What took you so long….
Clay: I grew up…why didn’t you…kids are the best.
Fifth scene:
JBW: Jesus Christ, I would do me.
Lupe: #TeamBomer….It went from Hotel Cortez to #HeartBreakHotel
Clay: Ask nice and give a lady a drink.
Sixth Scene:
JBW: I envy you…my curse was making my fortune too early…my point being are the appetites of the filthy rich are very specific, the differ from the common man.
Lupe: The founder, James Patrick March, is every serial killer in one.
Clay: I would like you to go first sir, so I could launder your sheets, but I guess there is no time for that.
Scene Seven:
JBW: Just because I am sucking on some dude, doesn’t mean I am gay….you want some…I would rather watch.
Lupe: He got his first kill from Vinder…LOL…the vampire Tinder.


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AHS: Hotel Episode 3

​Opening Scene
JBW: You are the greatest serial killer of all time…how do you know all that….I googled it….that sounds obscene.
Lupe: Even serial killers need mentors.
Clay: Get your paws off me…I am not here to be a deposit in you spank bank.
Scene Two
JBW: He stopped their tongues from wagging…though shall not bear false witness.
Lupe: I don’t like how angry the mom is at Scarlet.
Clay: That will teach her to not wash her face properly before bed.
Third Scene
JBW: Why are you wasting your time on junkies…we only hurt ourselves….it’s not like breaking the ten commandments.
Lupe: #VampBlocked
Clay: Now that is how Stella Got Her Groove Back! Everyone thinks your funny when you are young and beautiful, and then you get old…and you wonder why nobody’s laughing.
Fourth Scene
JBW: What if I told you Will Drake had to die…then you know the truth, the well is dry. You have been comfortable for far too long…you need to burn, so you can rise. I will call you later…btw, you’re hard.
Lupe: She’s a blood digger.
Clay: Maybe you should get a real drink…it’s obvious you need one.
Fifth Scene
JBW: Don’t haunt my hallways, bitch!
Lupe: Hotel-NoTel…that hive ain’t got room for two Queen B’s. #ThatDingoGotMyBabies
Clay: She dumped me last Tuesday.
Sixth Scene
JBW: And I have a floppy appendage between my legs that keeps me from wearing a pencil skirt.
Lupe: Well now there is some twisted poetic justice.
Clay: Does this belt go with this bag?
 
 
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​AHS: Hotel Episode Four
Opening Scene:
JBW: Help…there is a killer after me….and one in front of you too.
Lupe: Two infamous serial killers in less than three minutes.
Clay: She swore…fair is fair.
Second Scene:
JBW: Why didn’t I pay attention…It’s like I am walking in a nightmare…Would you like a Sherry.
Lupe: Not the dog…. #MommaShowdown
Clay: It’s every boy’s best friend.
Third Scene:
JBW: I saved him like I save all of my children….I saved them from neglect.
Control is an illusion…tonight I surrender to the illusion.
Lupe: I give them health, vitality, and everlasting life. #GiveMeSome #VampiressForOne
Clay: You are too drunk to see how ugly that woman is….I’m too drunk to care.
Fourth Scene:
JBW: This is my problem with cops, you care only about evidence, evidence, and evidence until your evidence becomes a mistake.
Lupe: We are the Mount Rushmore of murderer.
Clay: Suck my left tit Clark Gable.
Fifth Scene:
JBW: He is flying on an eight-ball of china white…this should buy me a year of being left alone.
Lupe: That was one hell of a trippy, scary, horrific hallucination John had.
Clay: You have to surrender, to allow yourself to be ripped apart. You will feel like you’re dying, and perhaps you are.

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AHS: Hotel - The Premiere 

10/21/2015

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Ryan Murphy comes out of the gates leading the pack with this wildly sexual, violent, horror filled story based in a hotel in California. Each week promises to build upon itself and intensify as in seasons past to its blood filled ending. 

What will follow is purely fun commentary, insights and some of our favorite quotes from the multi-faceted characters. 

Opening Scene:
Lupe: I wouldn’t have stayed because of no wifi, everyone can relate to a musty hotel, check the sheets, but don’t cut the mattress.
Clay: Sleep tight bitches.




Second Scene:
JBW: Adultery, glue, spear, Viagra…and Liz Taylor, oh my. I love you Sally.
Lupe: Feeling the Shining and Freddie Kruger…Giving me the vibe of Seven….a horrific way to die.
Clay: Dare to Say No, Drugs will kill you. 
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Third Scene:
JBW: Gaga is down with the tongue….I want to tear you apart. It’s not the getting ready, it’s the clean-up…call housekeeping.
Lupe: Clay was all down for the after-party, I was all down with the movie in the park.
Clay: Matt Bomer’s ass and Lady Gaga, I would be all up in that mess.
 
Fourth Scene:
Lupe: I don’t like it when little kids are used in scary movies….they are little and helpless…it scares me more. I knew she was the one that was going to see the murder.
Clay: Many people suffer from IBS.

​Fifth Scene:
JBW: The perverted white saran wrap man is pretty freaky. He really drills deep into your fears.
Messes are always forgiven…the first time.
Lupe: Lady Gaga a vampire and a baby snatcher??? And that dad, leaving his child on the carousel.
Clay: Lachian, don’t touch…fingerprints are hard to clean off.
 
Sixth Scene:
JBW: Don’t mess with momma…she will throw your ass from the window.
Your boy has a jaw line for days…..
Lupe: Ryan Murphy…what a genius song choice…Shout out to Hotel California.
Clay: Don’t get between a mother and her cub.
 


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BLOOD MOON Has Risen...

10/2/2015

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I am so happy to announce that my second book in the Bad Moon Rising Series, Blood Moon, is now available on Amazon.com. The Kindle version is only days away from being available. I hope you all will take a moment and help me celebrate this mile stone in my author journey and order your copy today. I know with your help, enthusiasm and word of mouth, we can take this book all the way to #1 on the Amazon Top 100 charts.

Don't delay, get your copy today!

It is also available in a Young Adult (YA) version which can be found on Amazon.com.

Join us for the Offical Blood Moon Launch Party on October 10, 2015 from 8:00 - 10:00pm at Area 18 (21 years and older).


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My Daughter, Champion of Change

5/18/2015

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Tomorrow the world will be calling her a White House honored Champion of Change, I call her my daughter and my personal inspiration. Sitting on this news for the past few weeks has been a blessing and a curse. The curse was, we wanted everyone to know what an amazing young lady Lupe Ortiz-Tovar is, but the blessing was it allowed us to help her process this before it was announced by White House press release and the flood of questions and well wishes poured in.

Typically, Lupe is reserved and collected, very guarded with her personal life. But we also know a side of her that is fun, witty and learning to let her guard down. I made her uncomfortable when I gave her some guidelines for answering the questions below. Knowing Lupe and that she is always striving to put her most polished foot forward, I told her I would ask a question and that she had sixty seconds to answer the question, to give me the first thing that popped into her head and just be in the moment. During the interview, she laughed a lot, cried and in the end gave some very heartfelt and sincere answers to the questions below. 


Lupe witnessing President Barack Obama signing H.R. 2883 into Law on September 30, 2011, read more about the provisions here: http://bit.ly/sm0Ku3

JBW: Tell me about your favorite teacher.

Lupe: She told me that I should apply to be on the student council president for elementary school. She told me the steps of how to do it. The family I was with, at the time, made ribbons and bows “Vote For Lupe” and I won.

JBW: Tell me about some of your friends.

Lupe: My friends are inspiring, driven, funny….they like to get together and talk, not about work. We laugh so much and I love it. We can all sit in a room and watch a movie, cook dinner together and have the best time just doing nothing.

JBW: Who are some of your heroes?

Lupe: My fathers, for seeing something in me I don’t, but I am trying to. For being an example of a family unit. My siblings, who look up to me and I look up to them and they are there for me when things aren’t good, when I am struggling with something. To have people there when you are not always on, I treasure that. I don’t have to be happy and perfect all the time and they accept. Without their examples, I wouldn’t have, in my mind, people I could aspire to become, whether that be in their profession, as parents, as partners or as friends.



JBW: What's your superpower? 

Lupe: That is a good question. Embracing people as they are, first, and then helping them see themselves as I see them because I make them comfortable and open to sharing their truth. I don’t think it is something that I knew I had until I had met somebody that has asked me for advice or says to me “do you remember 5 years ago when I met you and you helped me.” I want young people to know about their greatness and I want them to see it. 

JBW: What did you do with your first paycheck? 

 Lupe: You know what, I think that is when I first started reading Glamour magazine. I was a senior in high school and I went to try and put one of those outfits together that was in the magazine. I didn’t have sisters around to help me. 

JBW: Describe your first job. 

Lupe: Well I considered the volunteering I did when I was fourteen-years-old a job, a candy stripper at the hospital. I was the 6a.m. coffee cart person, I was the first person the senior citizens saw in the morning when they woke up. They were all there because they were sick so I always went in with a smile and I didn’t leave until they were smiling too.

JBW: What was your favorite job and why? 

Lupe: The work with the Young Adult Training and Technical Assistance Network because I was able to help teach young adults from foster care some leadership skills that they could utilize not only in their foster care work, but also was transferable to their personal and professional life.

JBW: When have you been most satisfied in your life? 

Lupe: (Laughs) I think it was father’s day of this past year when I was asked to be adopted. I went home and called Valerie (bio-sister) and what she said to me was like a broken puzzle had come together. I don’t know what to call that day, I didn’t know there was a void until someone else found it and filled it.

JBW: Who is your role model, and why? 

Lupe: I think it is the adults in my life who made me pause and celebrate milestones I had accomplished. They push me to work harder for my goals and keep pushing me to dream bigger and plan further without paying attention to my fears…(Laughs) or insecurities. 

JBW: What things do you not like to do? 

Lupe: Well, what do I not like to do? I don’t like to answer questions in sixty seconds, I don’t like to always put clothes away right after they are dried. For some reason I don’t like to put my shoes away right when I come into the house (laughing) and I don’t like to wake up to an alarm clock. I don’t like to read about hate. I don’t like to hear about people who get lost in the struggles or memories of their past.

JBW: Tell me about a project or accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your career. 

 Lupe: Hmm…I think demystifying people’s conceptions of what older people from foster care are able to accomplish. Even though I am known as being agreeable and perky, I can speak up and say “you are missing a crucial aspect of this work.” I honestly don’t know where that courage comes from. 

JBW: What is your opinion of the state of affairs of Child Welfare today? 

Lupe: Somewhere I read a statement that said “child welfare saves lives but also hurts lives.” I agree with that statement, but somewhere, in the last ten years, there has been improvement because of partnerships between child welfare professionals and young people working together. I think that collaboration has been instrumental in the legislation that has passed in the last few years promoting “normalized” activities for young people being raised in the construct of a system being their families. I think the only way it will get better, is if young people and foster families are at the table when decisions are being made for ways to improve the system. 

JBW: Tell me about some of your favorite songs (also books, movies and television shows). 

Lupe: Because I’m Happy by Pharrell Williams it makes me do a mental check and dance wherever I am….basically anything with a hip hop beat will keep me going at the gym. It’s been my saving grace when I get stuck in my head…cardio is my #MentalHealth…acoustic soul and country music is where I get lost in the narrative and get recharged…I love music so this is really hard.

The last book I read was Blue Moon by Johnny Bryan Ward and I read it to support my dad and it scared the heebbie jeebies out of me. (not prompted at all)

One of my favorite movies is The Secret Life of Bees with Queen Latifah….it’s the last movie I watched with Valerie and it’s about sisterhood. But my favorite genre movie, and I think people would be surprised by this, is mafia movies. I love mafia movies. 

I am really liking CSI Cyber, but I like social media a lot, so it kind of freaks me out.

JBW: Tell me about some of the places where you've been happiest. 

Lupe: When I am in a room surrounded by people who accept me unconditionally and who have been in my life for the last ten years…because that is the longest (outside of my bio-sister) that people have been in my life. I think what I love the most is that they can bring up a memory, whether happy or sad, and they can tease me about it. I just think it is so fun to have ‘inside jokes’ with people.

JBW: What haven't we talked about that you'd like to discuss in the time we have left? 

Lupe: Two things. One, creating roots in a place is something I was always scared of because I was never in a place for longer than a few years because of foster care. There is a sense of safety now, when you know where home base is. 

Second, for the longest time, I just had new people that came in my life, but no one stayed, but in last ten years people have stayed. Now I am making new connections, building lasting relationships and I have a new puppy, Sparkie #IWillSendYouAPicture.

JBW: If we're sitting here a year from now celebrating what a great year it's been for you since the Champion of Change event, what did you achieve? 

Lupe: Well, to live up to what the honoree saw in me. To stay true to the good that I see in child welfare and to work towards making it better in my own small way I play in it. To challenge myself to move further in my career and education. I think in order to continue to give back, you also have to give to yourself.

JBW: So, Lupe, what's your story? 

Lupe: I have no clue. I think it’s bigger than me. It’s different now that I have a family. I think I believed in the impossible for so many years, I could have chosen an easier route, and sadly…live up to those expectations that young people have of children in foster care, but I just never thought that a person’s life was meant to be filled with only hurt…even in my loneliest and saddest years I knew there was more. People said you can’t do this or no one believes you can do that…someone taught me to dream and I still believe in that. 

 JBW: Tell me how you got there? 

Lupe: By everything being taken away from me and holding onto, like, that glimpse of love or hope. To me, it was the love of my sister and a dream to graduate in the class of 2000, people thought the world was going to end (Laughs), but little did we know that in a few years Facebook would be around. In a time when I had nothing, I had a memory of something great and I just wouldn't give up until I got back to that. 

 JBW: What next? 

Lupe: Family…hopefully love…and going after a master’s degree and continuing to choose happiness above it all. 

For more information, please read the article in The Oklahoman by clicking the following link http://newsok.com/fostering-change/article/5419837 
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AHS - Freak Show: Season Finale

1/21/2015

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American Horror Story – Freak Show – Season Finale

What an exciting and thrilling season this has been. It ranks right up there as one of Ryan’s best. It has challenged my fear of clowns and indulged my love of the macabre. I hope you have enjoyed Clay and Lupe’s take on the scenes. They enjoyed doing it and always had an emotional or funny take on it. So let’s sit back, relax and see what the finale has in store for us.

Intro: Bitch Slap of a Momma’s Boy

Lupe: #LoyaltyAmongFreaksTrumpsCryBabySerialKiller

Clay: I had a boss like that once, but I quit.

Scene Two: The Cleansing

Lupe: Dandy is such a coward; he is so broken, nothing will ever please him.

Clay: They will think of something, two heads are better than one.

Scene Three: And then there were three.

Lupe: Time to get a taste of your own medicine, DANDY!

Clay: Should always think about the prenup! Where’s Mini Meep???

Scene Four: The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth

Lupe: That final act was one to die for.

Clay: That boy is a star.

Scene Five: Because Herding Cattle isn’t the only hard work.

Lupe: She could only run so far from her lies with wooden legs (Clay made her say it)

Clay: A sex tape never hurt the Kardashian’s.  

Scene Six: We could be heroes just for one day.

Lupe: I loved when Mordrake told her “You place is not with us.”

Clay: I’m disappointed…but it was nice to see Twisty.

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Menage a Trois Under the Big Top

1/21/2015

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American Horror Story – Freak Show - 10

Intro:

Elsa: Why am I the only one in camp who knows the depth of that girl’s soul? He was a grunter, crude and moronic.

Lupe: I feel really bad for Pepper for losing her soul mate; it is always the most unassuming guy who turns out to be the monster, chopping off his head.

Scene Two:

You finished? Good! Now you clean all this shit up!

Lupe: Pepper’s story humanized the story of the circus. I can’t believe she was from an orphanage and she wanted to adopt her. I really saw the human side in Elsa, even though I don’t care for her much, she tried to give Pepper some normalcy.

Clay: RIF….Reading is Fundamental

Scene Three:

Lupe: I am really liking Desiree this episode…”I may not be from the country, but I can smell bullshit and what you are selling me is some bullshit.

I am liking Bet and Dot for taking the high ground and giving their money to help someone who told them that he didn’t love them back.

Clay: Triple Tits…is not playing…she gonna figure this all out!

Scene Four:

Lupe: I hate that Mr. Peterson used his orphan card to win over Jimmy. Dessi is my girl this episode…she is gonna teach herself how to cook that pot roast even though her momma refused to show her. She is also tough, #feminist

Clay: What’s his plan with little Jimmy Darlin?

Scene Five:

Lupe: I don’t know that I am agreement with Elsa taking Pepper back to her sisters so she can move to “Hollywood” but what I think she did right was to let Pepper know that no matter what, she will always have family. I don’t think that people always know that. Side note: Pepper’s sister is on something, she was slurring her words and kept touching her boob.

Clay: Lobster hands????

Scene Six:

Lupe: I have no words, I am so heartbroken for Pepper. And there is a real place in hell for her sister and her sister’s husband.

Clay: Pepper goes to the asylum…full circle AHS!!!




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American Horror Story – Freak Show – Episode 11

Intro: 

Lupe: Don’t drink the sizzurp…, poor Jimmy

Clay: If Jimmy gets out, it’s going to be an eye for an eye, or claw for a claw.

Scene Two: 

Lupe: Marjorie is the freak show version of Annabelle…huh, nutcracker.

Clay: I am so craving a NPH and Dandy moment.

Scene Three:

Lupe: That is the weirdest escapade I have ever seen with a dummy

Clay: Butt quota still going.

Scene Four:

Lupe: I want to know what happened to him at war; I need to know more about Marjorie…you saw her come to life didn’t you???

Clay: It appears that Marjorie is a disappearing, two-timing bitch!

Scene Five:

Lupe: They did not “F” around with retaliation against wrongs done to their own. Marjorie is freaking me out. 

Clay: NPH and Dandy…it was my dream scene…nope, they were clothed. 




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American Horror Story – Freak Show Episode 12

Intro:

Lupe: Don’t mess with FAMILY…dreams cannot be murdered.

Clay: Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Scene Two:

Lupe: I don’t think there is any reconciliation for Maggie…for Chester, if this is the way he is in love, I would hate to see him in hate. 

Clay: It’s Hammer Time.

Scene Three:

Lupe: Dandy showed some heart, in his own way, by saving Bet and Dot. But man, his facial expressions.

Clay: I have to wonder how many CUTs did that scene took. She should have went with her gut instinct. 

Scene Four:

Lupe: I can’t believe Bet and Dot saved Elsa. This is the first episode where other freaks got to see Elsa’s freakism.

Clay: No, not Marjorie. 

Scene Five:

Lupe: He chose his normal.

Clay: Pinocchio you are a real lobster boy. 

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Love Now, Tomorrow Isn't Promised

12/19/2014

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It has been a while since I have wrote on here, but it feels right today. With the holidays upon us, the magic in the air, we need to remember the good in our lives and hold tightly to the ones we cherish. Not the things, but the people in our lives that have left a mark of love and light in our lives.

Yesterday, I said goodbye to a very dear friend. What gets to me is I don’t know if in his final hours he knew just how much he meant to me and the memories I have of him. He was the husband to one of my favorite cousins and the father of my two godchildren. We had not spoken in many years and I don’t know if it was because of the pain we both felt for the loss of my cousin, or if it was just life and time that got in the way. But I regret that I didn’t reach out more, even just a call here and there to keep in touch.

Friendships and family are the things I hold dear to me and yet with the busy life we lead, I find myself letting so much time go by in between calls, text or emails that just say “hello”, “how are you” or “I love you.” One of the worst things to live with is the feeling of regret.

I have many close friends and family out there that I don’t reach out to enough. I live my days hoping that they know how much I love them and with each day that passes I tell myself, “I will call them this weekend.” The weekend comes and something always happens, life gets busy and hectic and we just lose track.

But with the coming year and with new resolutions on the horizon, I want to let my people know, and you all know who you are, that I will make a better, more conscious effort to keep in touch. You all mean so much to me and my life has been shaped, enhanced or brightened by each of you.

Be kind to each other. Don’t hold onto grudges and resentment, life is just too short and we never know when our last day here on earth will be. Tell someone you forgive them. Tell someone you are sorry. Tell someone that you love them.

I hope this holiday season finds you all with the most magical of times and that you fond memories of lost ones and are making even better memories with the ones who are here with you now.

Have a peaceful night!

Johnny Bryan Ward


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The Serial Exposure: Dandy's Ass

12/10/2014

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AHS 9

Intro: The puppet master!!! If you want it long and hard, I need you soft and wide.

Lupe: #BowTieWednesday…he is such a momma’s boy he had to make a puppet of his mother. He just couldn’t let her die. #mommapuppet

Clay: There is nothing worse than an alcoholic with bad hygiene.

Section Two:

Things are definitely heating up. Johnny is on a path of destruction. Dandy is getting very interesting. Liking the serial killer vibe going on.

Lupe: Johnny Darling is not so darling…he is on a downward spiral.

Clay: Is he just a gigilobster.



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Section Three:

The best way to send those girls off is to give them exactly what they want.

Dandy is getting warmed up. He is taking serial killing to a new level. The power of bathing in blood.

Lupe: That is one Tupperware party, turned pool party I am glad I didn’t attend. Dandy is on rampage. Team Bet!!!

Clay: Dandy’s ass is a reoccurring character. And he doesn’t have a bad body.

Section Four:

Your secret shame, is my secret shame. You should see it when its anger.

You keep your shame on the inside; it eats away at you like of rot.

Lupe: Put down that rope and get your freak on.

Clay: That is a lot of digging for a millions dollars.

Section Five:

Lupe: I feel sorry for Dot; now it’s Bet’s turn to love Dandy.

Clay: I don’t have anything on that section….it’s a very odd ménage a trois!

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The Past of Freaks, is Still a Past

12/3/2014

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AHS 8

A week off from AHS – Freak Show has left some of us going through withdrawals. The turkey and family gathering was fun, and a family road trip was amazing, but I am ready to get my freak on.


Intro:

Lupe: Dandy has one hell of a case of “mommy’s boy”.

Clay: A mother’s burden never ends.

Second Section:

Someone’s actions whether good or bad, will always be taken into consideration when things go bad, get dark and people are grasping for understanding for an indefensible crime. Elsa may be innocent in Ma Petite’s death, but her actions have given rise to justifiable suspicions.

Lupe: Elsa snuck in on that draw.

Clay: She needed that like another hole in the leg, but then…..



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Section Three:

So Dandy posed a question…can you can someone’s power by eating their flesh or just by bathing in their blood. Hmm, thoughts???

Lupe: I hope they don’t have Regina for dinner.

Clay: Freaks are dropping like flies, but they will have their revenge.

Section Four:

Eat up darling…there is more where that came from.

Lupe: Elsa is sick!!! Sisterhood and the traveling circus.

Clay: Soup’s on….


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Section Five:

Lupe: Dandy has no impulse control. Creepy as hell….Then Lupe went to get us cookies…maybe taking a bath in his mother’s blood will make him a better person.

Clay: Dandy is the dark horse of the show….each week, I get more and more impressed with him.



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