An Introduction
An Introduction....
In a nut shell, I am a country girl who unfortunately lives in the city. Not a big city, but you can't have horses or goats where I live. And to make it worse, I live in Florida.
Where it is hot. And flat. And there are barely any seasons.
I was born in West Virginia, Wheeling to be exact. I lived in the small town of Cameron, then, after my parents divorced, moved to my grandparents farm outside of Pittsburgh. My mom went back to Pitt to get her masters and once that was accomplished, had the idiotic idea to uproot us from family and move to Florida.
I get it...she had polio and she wouldn't have to deal with snow. But her masters did absolutely no good for her in Florida, we were barely scraping by, and we were without the physical support of family. Thank god for summer vacations, which were spent back on my grandparents farm.
When I turned 18, I should have left, but I didn't and then I eventually met and married my husband, had 3 kids and became a suburban housewife.
In Florida.
I had my horses, but just not in the backyard. No goats (save for bringing home an orphan from the barn for a whole 24 hours, much to the horror of my husband who realized that I meant to keep it at home!), no chickens, no donkeys, no ducks.
My entire adult life has been scheming to get a home in the country. I realize that leaving the state of Florida for more than a week or 2 at a time will never happen. At least not as long as I am married to a former Bostonian who hates the cold as much as I hate the heat.
During this time of scheming, I have learned a thing or 2 about who I am.
Will anyone read this? Probably not, and I don't care if a famous producer never stumbles across this and thinks it would be a fascinating movie, starring Julia Roberts as myself. But one day, maybe one of my kids will find it and learn about who I am, why I am who I am, and why I was never really able to vocalize all this to them.
More than being a simple country girl, it is a journey of self awareness and discovery.
In a nut shell, I am a country girl who unfortunately lives in the city. Not a big city, but you can't have horses or goats where I live. And to make it worse, I live in Florida.
Where it is hot. And flat. And there are barely any seasons.
I was born in West Virginia, Wheeling to be exact. I lived in the small town of Cameron, then, after my parents divorced, moved to my grandparents farm outside of Pittsburgh. My mom went back to Pitt to get her masters and once that was accomplished, had the idiotic idea to uproot us from family and move to Florida.
I get it...she had polio and she wouldn't have to deal with snow. But her masters did absolutely no good for her in Florida, we were barely scraping by, and we were without the physical support of family. Thank god for summer vacations, which were spent back on my grandparents farm.
When I turned 18, I should have left, but I didn't and then I eventually met and married my husband, had 3 kids and became a suburban housewife.
In Florida.
I had my horses, but just not in the backyard. No goats (save for bringing home an orphan from the barn for a whole 24 hours, much to the horror of my husband who realized that I meant to keep it at home!), no chickens, no donkeys, no ducks.
My entire adult life has been scheming to get a home in the country. I realize that leaving the state of Florida for more than a week or 2 at a time will never happen. At least not as long as I am married to a former Bostonian who hates the cold as much as I hate the heat.
During this time of scheming, I have learned a thing or 2 about who I am.
Will anyone read this? Probably not, and I don't care if a famous producer never stumbles across this and thinks it would be a fascinating movie, starring Julia Roberts as myself. But one day, maybe one of my kids will find it and learn about who I am, why I am who I am, and why I was never really able to vocalize all this to them.
More than being a simple country girl, it is a journey of self awareness and discovery.
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