memoir – Page 2 – Nancy Jean Walker

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Post #76 – An Orphan, a Fire, a World-Renowned Singer, a Mobster, and Crushed Dreams

By Nancy on February 17, 2016 • ( 4 Comments )

Me at the age of twenty-two – a true disco queen I taught ballroom dancing during my late twenties, performed with a partner in Miami, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles and danced like they do on Dancing with the Stars. (Truth) While in Johns Hopkins in 1992, my neurologist told […]

Post #74 – Tropical Spastic Paraparesis Affects Under 2% of the World – I Am One of Them – Memoir

By Nancy on February 15, 2016 • ( 7 Comments )

Courtesy of God’s Emerald An Excerpt from My Memoir – Captive in the Mirror Shane’s Revenge – August 1992 (Shane, the leader of the ruthless gang of mob-controlled sex traffickers, held me captive in New York City for three years) The sundrenched Sunday morning of August 30, 1992, foretold a […]

Post #67 – A Cherished Childhood Memory – Happier Times

By Nancy on January 24, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

An adventurous little girl, a scattering of red clay hills on a construction site, climbed to the top of her favorite mound of rosy mud, raised her hands to the sky and imagined flying like angels fly. A delicious aroma of Play Doh and musky wood mingled with […]

Post #66 – We Sing Through Our Poetry, Prose, Photography, and Pain

By Nancy on January 23, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

I have been “writing” ever since I was a child, but I never thought of myself as a writer. It is just a way of expressing myself in words. However, I’ve been told that I am a storyteller and I have plenty of stories to tell, as do […]

Post #53 – I Didn’t Know How to Talk about It – Memoir

By Nancy on December 27, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )

Chapter 44 Descending When I was a kid, sun showers captivated me. I splashed in puddles and danced in the soft drizzle. Popsicle sticks floating in streams of water along a gutter enchanted me. Simple times. I was happy. During my teen years, I took long walks in […]

Post #46 – A Street of Shadows – Memoir

By Nancy on December 8, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )

_______________________ Chapter 1 – Desperation and Hope “Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” ~ Ernest Victor Thompson I might rather have been withering away in a dungeon during the Middle Ages. The road to safety might be […]

Post #37 – PTSD – A Step Towards Healing

By Nancy on September 4, 2015 • ( 2 Comments )

When I was fifty-eight, sixteen years after Tropical Spastic Paraparesis paralyzed my legs among causing other painful symptoms, and confined for the most part to bed, I became suicidal. I could not endure another waking hour of suffering or another hellish nightmare invading my sleep. Deeply depressed at […]