Tag: physical abuse
member name: Roger Kiser
|
October 09, 2007 03:32 AM EDT --
I have written hundreds of stories and many articles, and I have fought for years, trying to tell the world that abuse, of all types, is flaring out of control. It is almost to the point that it cannot . . . more
|
|
November 06, 2007 11:50 AM EST --
The CDs of "AMERICAN ORPHAN" (The best stories of Roger Dean Kiser) just arrived this morning and are now available at: http://www.geocities.com/trampolineone/survive/srv080.htm
The sale of . . . more
|
|
October 09, 2007 06:03 PM EDT --
I just wanted to take a moment and thank those of you who purchased one of my books.
I just received a letter from someone on gather who thanked me for the book and CD. I included a free CD of my stories . . . more
|
|
May 16, 2008 09:48 PM EDT --
As I write my stories and can sometimes look back into my past, occasionally I get a glimpse of what I felt as a little boy. I can see myself clearly as a little boy and remember almost everything that . . . more
|
|
May 01, 2008 07:45 AM EDT --
It was "May Day." All the children from the Spring Park Elementary School had gathered on the school grounds for the May Day Maypole dance.
This dance involves many short flagpoles, with . . . more
|
|
July 03, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
This is a very unusual story. It is one that is very difficult for me to tell. Not only because of the incident itself but trying to tell the story in such a manner that it is not crude or disrespectful. . . . more
|
|
November 03, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
I was a little disappointed when I saw the old buildings were now gone that I had known as a young boy. Every one of them replaced with a high-rise. It had been a long time since I had been to Jacksonville, . . . more
|
|
May 25, 2008 04:53 PM EDT --
"You ever put me in that position again and I'll cut your damn throat. Do you understand that young man?" screamed Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home Society, located . . . more
|
|
October 19, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
I suppose most children are raised in what society considers being ‘a normal lifestyle.' Once leaving home they head out into the world and try to create, as best they can, a lifestyle based . . . more
|
|
November 02, 2007 10:02 PM EDT --
"I'm going to tell you boys something right now," said Mother Winters, the head matron of the orphanage where we lived. "I'm going to tell you one time and one time only. If you . . . more
|
|
October 04, 2007 09:28 PM EDT --
Life in the Children's Home Society Orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida was not an easy life at all. Actually, Army life was, to some extent, much easier than was my life in the orphanage. In the Army; . . . more
|
|
October 24, 2007 11:31 AM EDT --
"I would not buy that woman a Mother's Day card if my life depended upon it," said the woman standing in the greeting card isle at Wal-Mart.
I looked up and saw a look of total disgust . . . more
|
|
January 16, 2008 06:46 PM EST --
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I have always considered myself just a regular old fellow.
I live in a twenty-two year old doublewide mobile home, in Brunswick, Georgia; drive a truck . . . more
|
|
May 16, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
If there was ever a time when I, as a child, felt totally worthless because of the actions of an adult, it would have to be when I stood before Mother Winters, the head matron of the Children's Home . . . more
|
|
May 18, 2008 01:56 PM EDT --
Having been raised my entire childhood in The Children's Home Society, located in Jacksonville, Florida; we children were not reared to become loving individuals. Love was not part of the orphanage . . . more
|
|
September 28, 2007 11:54 AM EDT --
I guess the years have taken its toll on just about all of us. The never-ending, constant worries and hours upon hours of nervous situations that life itself has thrown our way. All the wars, the insults, . . . more
|
|
September 30, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
Over sixty years I have been an Orphan, "Little Retarded Bastard," Orderly, Medic, Nurse, Painter, Finished Plummer, Ambulance Driver, Emergency Medical Technician, Legal Representative, Counselor, . . . more
|
|
October 21, 2007 12:04 PM EDT --
THE LONE RANGER
Am I the only one who held a heavy heart or shed a tear when I heard that Clayton Moore (The Long Ranger) died several months ago?
How deeply it hurt me when I barely saw him mentioned . . . more
|
|
November 09, 2007 09:34 PM EST --
After I was released from the Florida School for Boys at Marianna (reform school), I was locked up in the juvenile hall for months. I refused to ever return to the Children's Home Society. I was not . . . more
|
|
November 26, 2007 10:55 PM EST --
As a young boy, I lived on the streets of a large city (Jacksonville, Florida) for almost six years. If you know of a teenager who is in trouble or might runaway; my book "Runaway-Life on the . . . more
|
|
|
|
