Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee...  I tilt my head to my right shoulder, listening... watching, studying... life; everything that is life; everything around me.  I wonder, I think, I feel, care, love; even hate, dislike......... I grieve, no matter what I do; no matter how happy, sad.  I go on with life knowing my son, my only child is gone... forever.  Not only do I…See More

Chapter 5- The Reality Show I am a six or seven out of 10 on the scale of self-esteem.I am not some teenage girl on the Disney Channel who writes in a diary and cries about a boy who doesn’t like her. No, that’s not deep enough. That downgrades my issues.I don’t have a diary.I don’t write, “Dear diary, so-and-so doesn’t like me back.”No – when I have a bad day, I scream, punch pillows, and listen to angry music at the highest volume until everything else fades away.Or I smoke weed.Or, I used to…See More

How good to you want to feel about life and its living? How good of a place do you want to make your world, THE world? This speaks to inside and out, emotionally, physically, even spiritually, and in the broader world...one reflecting upon the other, back and forth in its intrinsic formulaic dynamic. Please know these notions (within the Bright Beautiful School of Thought/Ming Chia) are in no way set forth in an unhealthful spirit of haughtiness...accordingly congruent with the Same Boat…See More

I have copyrighted my collection of six science fiction stories under a title that I can't legally use. Is it possible to have the same stories copyrighted under a new title ? The title is also used on the last page of each story. I also wonder if I were to have these stories professionally edited, would that affect the current copyright ? I would like to eventually publish these stories in a E book, but they are no longer on a computer, only printed hard copies. Any advice would be much…See More

This is all I have of Rick-Rick... his ashes are in this beautiful chest... Rick-Rick's Chest.  It sits beside our Mother's Rose Chest, in my happy art room.......Death... Shock and Everything Between...  Until Tommy Died, I Didn't Know It Hurt This MuchBy Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny GeeToday... my little brother, my most favorite…See More