Robert StGenis Voice empowered

Evidently Amanda spent more like 5 days in a mental health facility and the incident largely contributed to her not being granted custody of her children with rather limited visitation. Autumn finally has read my blog. She will be comforted if I again reiterate that this is a story, actually will be a series of stories, based on actual events but not a documentary and entirely factual. It certainly is all from my perception. I wouldn't be able to pick out Amanda in a crowd. I've never even seen a picture of her, let alone met her. It's been over a decade since I've seen Dave. According to Autumn he has aged a lot and is very heavy. Note, according to Autumn. That is all I have to run with, the comments of the hateful ex-wife.  My overall objectives here are looking at various relationships, the trials and tribulations of them. We all learn from each other,  whether things to emulate or that we would never want to copy ourselves. It took Autumn 4 1/2 years after she r...

Contrary to many's belief, dogs are not everyone's best friend. Anymore than everyone loves pizza or hates broccoli. There are cultures that are afraid of dogs. Some people are simply fearful of them. I was unexpectedly bitten by our neighbors little shit dog  when I was about 4 or 5 (I don't remember the breed, it just was small and I am saying this as a memory when I was small)  and it took until I was a teenager before I was again comfortable if a dog suddenly lunged at me. People's background's  and mindset have a lot to do with how they think of dogs as well. Some think they belong out in the wild, running in the fields. Others, think they belong in your purse. There are people who make dogs members of their family, buy them wardrobes, throw them birthday parties. There are others that find this pathetic. This is from the 14th annual New York Pet Fashion Show... While people seem to hype about their allergy to cats more, the reality is ...

It was 107 degrees recently in Downtown Los Angeles. That is excessively hot for us; really should be excessively hot for most anywhere barring Palm Springs, Phoenix and a few other places in the summer. I was coming down the elevator at the athletic club we belong to with a guy who had also just left the locker room. He had a cycle helmet. We had 5 floors to travel, roughly 45 seconds to 1 minute (I know this ride as well as the one in our building at home). I commented "you braved it and decided to ride here" with a approving smile. He replied "It's only a mile and by time I get in the car, out of the car, it's just as sweaty anyway." We were parting the door and I responded "fair enough" and we went our separate ways. Hardly a necessary conversation, but it seemed like a reasonable excuse to initiate one. Again, this was a day of rare record setting heat. I am often complaining that I hardly know anyone at this club and socialization was a large...

I've intentionally been running off of raw memory rather than referencing Autumn for facts to make the story my own recollection from a very long journey I traveled with her from across the country. So, as I have mentioned before, there are things I am forgetting, things probably not quite in the right order, things I am intentionally omitting. Believe it or not there is even more to this seemingly endless divorce saga but she is but one I plan to share and I have friends and family adding to them as I am writing hers! Back to Autumn... I don't recall how Autumn initiated the contact, but she reached out to Amanda's husband, Jerry. They immediately bonded about the surprising number of disenchanting similarities in each of their to be ex spouses and their equal goals for vindication. Jerry had hired a private investigator or was planning to do so. Autumn followed to do so as well. She didn't have the funds, but her Mother and Father and provided them. Autum...

The tension between Autumn and Dave had been percolating to a point of overflow for some time; long before her return. This tension not only was clear in her general demeanor but in phone disputes that were witnessed within her office. Add to this there were some added tensions between her and the direct report which she was having a relationship or affair depending on your perception. Prior to the tree incident and her moving back in with Dave, my husband and I came to visit DC. We were in town for a fundraiser on which I was on the board. Autumn came as a guest at our table which was greatly appreciated. Trying to get guests at a table for a $200 or $250 per person brunch (I don't remember exactly) isn't easy. Doing so 3000 miles from home is all the more challenging. At this brunch I not only learned more about the "boy toy" romance, but that he was a pot dealer on the side and she was dealing weed to high school students in the same high school she wanted her s...