Gloria Jean's Journal

The "Boss" boisterously effervescing declares its domination as King, like the roaring King of the jungle, as clouds of mighty mist mark their overcast position in the dawn of a new day in Niagara Falls, New York humiliated and embarrassed by one of its daughters, the American twin sister city, a... Sign in to see full entry.

Aloha! An intimate encounter with intimate friends and companions, a romantic adventure, keeping company spending time socially in a luxurious setting the fun heats up with first scintillating chat, and contagious smiles, cocktails and wine, congratulations and a toast with outstretched arms toward... Sign in to see full entry.

Once upon a time I asked my father if we could put a screened patio on our house in Columbus, Ohio. He responded that it hadn't had a patio in all these years, why does it need one now? My Daddy was a very frugal man. I had never used the word frugal in my vocabulary. It was my attorney that... Sign in to see full entry.

Rev. M. J. Bushelon was pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Calumet Avenue and when he preached he would put you in the mind of Rev./Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. whose art of using language, with a sense of ethnic pride, would move you right up out of your seat and make you want to get up and shout... Sign in to see full entry.

1988 stands out in my mind as a very good year for me defeating death once again through the grace and power of our Almighty and His Angels who look over all of us, for that matter, for the power of God is that ability and strength whereby He can bring to pass whatsoever He pleases; God's power is... Sign in to see full entry.

The city of Niagara Falls, New York shackled and handcuffed and treated as if a slave and the property of others (the state) is being exploited and raped by "the master" Albany held against its will as in instituting state policies that don't work here in our local communities. Deprived of any... Sign in to see full entry.

The weight I was supposed to lose, what happened, I didn't get my mammogram, the book I had planned on writing was forgotten, starting a business would have been nice; last year before it got too cold I was going to clean all the leaves out of the drains and repair a hole in the roof which looks... Sign in to see full entry.

Don't mess with Texas! Everything in Texas is big! Houston, Texas is one of the prettiest cities I have ever seen - a joy to behold. It is also, right now, the third largest in the nation. Escaping the destruction just days before Gustav, ransacked the place. I was told there has not been a major... Sign in to see full entry.

"Why don't you leave her alone, I shouted!" Gabriel Heinzpeter, another name up in my memory bank I shall never forget, happened to be a German girl who had come to America with her father and mother and younger brother escaping the turmoil and anarchy in Germany, a country divided into two parts,... Sign in to see full entry.

The cranial nerve in the brain is stimulated by the nervous system when emotions flare sending signals to the neurotransmitters to the tear glands: With my emotional disorder, I cry at just about everything not being able to watch a dramatic or very touching movie without sitting there and... Sign in to see full entry.