Messages From Hell

Bitter like a lemon drop
Caught in my own web of lies and deception
Lies I tell myself
Lies that keep me imprisoned in the hell my own heart creates
Out of string and dust and candle wax and flowers long since dead
Enter temptation
Temptation to flee
To feel happy again
To smile in the sunny days of new love
To fly with [...]

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This was the year I thought I would make real progress in my attempts to eventually escape Utah.  I really want so much to go home to Detroit and stay there. 
Most of my children have made their way back there without so much trouble.  Why can’t I? 
I miss them and even worse, I miss my [...]

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Having an news article written about you is always a little scary…  But today we had a pleasant surprise!  Front Page!!!
Owner of American Fork shop calls raid illegal
Police say minor saw pornographic pictures
By Catherine Smith
Deseret Morning News
Published: Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008 12:37 a.m. MST
AMERICAN FORK — Not everyone is happy in Happy Valley.Gregory “Doc” Lowery, [...]

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Almost every third or fourth day there is some new harassment. 
I am tired from not sleeping well.  I haven’t been eating very well either which adds to my overall physical distress. 
What if we have an emergency?  I feel like I have no one I could call on. 
If the police and city attorney are your enemy [...]

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This painting along with my art & tattoo portfolio spent four days locked up in the evidence room at the American Fork Police Station.  The search warrant gave them permission to only take photographs of pierced or tattoo genitals.  As this painting is neither of these items of interest, they have illegally seized my personal property.
Upon the return of [...]

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The Sweetest Words…
I’ve ever heard have turned out to be “smoking or non-smoking”.  To me it has become the anthem of the free.  A symbol of being in a place where personal freedom has the same importance to others as it does for me.  (Which I had not appreciated until I lived in Utah!)
I don’t [...]

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I’m sitting on the couch and the dog barfs up something really nasty.  Bad enough, but then I grab a paper towel and clean it up to find that the garbage can has no liner… AGAIN!  I have a hand full of ick and no place to put it!
How many times has he taken out [...]

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 Last night I was watching a TV commercial where an older woman mistakenly thinks a younger man is flirting with her and to his horror she flirts back. She wasn’t THAT bad looking, and maybe with out the drab make-up and clothing they had her in, she would be considered quite pretty… but as they [...]

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Time is slipping away and we are going to be on the road again. I have a feeling that the trip to Utah is going to feel like walking through mud. Long and tiring.
To be honest, I don’t want to leave my new grandson. He’s going to do a lot of changing in the 2 [...]

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No Walmart – Not easy when you realize all of the other businesses that we shopped at are now gone.  Put out of business by Walmart
Walk the Dogs.
Metamorphosis of my blog from about the exmormon experience to about exploring the concept of living a value driven life.

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