http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/My name is Clarissa Jo Fleming. This is who I am in real life...well this is my name here and in the stories I write in real life. I love writing, and I love watching my characters develop. My two favorite characters - who just happen to be the two personae that make up the balance of my basic personality - are Barbara Ann, a.k.a. the Barbedwire Magnolia - from here on out known as Barbedwire (SHE DOES NOT LIKE TO BE CALLED BARBARA ANN!), and Belle who is the traditional Southern Magnolia. Barbedwire and Belle are my extremes, and I am somewhere in between. Belle is the one who tries to be the epitome of a true Southern Belle Magnolia like my mother tried to teach me to be. Barbedwire is the magnolia part of my makeup that was influenced by my daddy's side of the family - the West Texas side that tends to be pretty wide open. We each have something to say in our own unique way. Ya'll come see us often, hear?hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/490678Dear Sally, I hope you are feeling a lot better today. I am sorry you had to be sick and go to the hospital. I have never been in a hospital, but I bet you did not like it at all. I am glad you are home now. I don't know where you live so I can't send you any flowers, but if I could I would send...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/490565BARBARA ANN a.k.a. BARBED WIRE, BELLE, and CLARISSA JO: WE LOVE YOU SALLY. PLEASE GET WELL SOON! What started off as a calm, quiet peaceful mornin' has deteriorated into chaos; I suppose you have figured out by the tone in my voice that I am not the picture of serenity I was earlier this morning,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/439975The announcement interrupted the continuous loop music the fruit in the produce department likes so much, while the imitation rain shower accompanied by the sound of fake thunder washed over the veggies keeping them crisp...and happy... according to store advertising. Yeah..right! There are...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/439611I never in my wildest imagination thought Barbed would be scared of anything...other than spiders, that is! "...but Dr. Stein, if you wait to give me a handicapped sticker when I need it all the time I won't get one iota of pleasure out of it! If you give it to me now, though, I'll at least get...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/384939All Right, Clarissa Jo! This is enough...I've had it! I just can't stand all the sighin' and cryin' and carryin' on you're doin'... you're just wanderin' around like you're in some kind of a daze, and I am goin' to scream if you blow your nose one more time. Geeze Louise, everybody's Daddy gets...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/312273Have you ever noticed that when you think you have life figured out, something comes along to let you know how little you really know? Well, that's how I felt this evening while I was fixin' supper... "I'm ready to talk now, Clarissa Jo..." "Belle? It's almost suppertime! I was expectin' to see...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/311880Well, Belle seems to be in a big pout this mornin' ya'll, so far be it from me to interfere with her needs. I know she thinks she is punishin' me, but it is quite the opposite. I just hope she doesn't figure it out that I'm as happy as a cat sleepin' in a sunny spot on the rug, 'cause Miss...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/311574CLARISSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! CLARISSA JO...WHAT IN THE SAM HILL ARE YOU DOIN'?! HELL'S BELLS, CLARISSA YOU BETTER JUST GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THAT DREAMWORLD YOU LIVE IN AND LET ME OUT, DAMNIT! I'M GETTIN' SICK AND DAMN TIRED OF TWIDDLIN' MY THUMBS, AND LISTENIN' TO BELLE'S INCESSANT...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/muser5804/288027"You know, a great body...like I go to the gym and workout all the time...not a freaky body...you know, just well toned. Then I want to go shopping...at Neiman's...and Victoria's Secret...I want a lot of new clothes...and I only want sexy underwear. I want a car...a red Mercedes...convertible. I...