Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: What Nebraska Means to Me

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: What Nebraska Means to Me: I just finished writing my book which is going into publication and here I sit without a break thinking about what Nebraska means to me. Do...

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: Pastor Gooming Twelve Year Old-The Rag Princess-Mo...

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: Pastor Gooming Twelve Year Old-The Rag Princess-Mo...: The Rag Princess-Out February by Barb Franzen-Child abused-Grows up and meet rancher  Will Temple from the past. From vicious abuse to tend...

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: From the Rag P...

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: From the Rag P...: Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: From the Rag Princess-A Child's Vicious Encounter ... :  In writing this story about  a hired hand&#...

Pastor Gooming Twelve Year Old-The Rag Princess-More Scenes

The Rag Princess-Out February by Barb Franzen-Child abused-Grows up and meet rancher  Will Temple from the past. From vicious abuse to tender love story. By child therapist Barb Franzen

 For winning he had a surprise. A red hearts necklace just happened to be in his desk. He would like to put it on her if she would like to have it. "Oh yes, she would love it!" she said finding this unbelievable. Would there be more things to come. Sylvie hadn't given her anything since she'd arrived and it was special to have something form a man that everyone was in love with. Slipping it around her neck, his hands caressed her upper arms. It felt oddly wonderful however fatherly he meant the caress. bending so that she could feel his warm breath on her neck, she reared back embarrassed, shocked. What could she do but giggle. It was just a gesture he was used to, but it had felt surprisingly good. He was saying that everything in here had to be their secret. 'oh yes, she said, that would be fine. It would e just the way she and Ginny Temple ahd done it. He reached over with a bowl of candy then set it down and took one which he placed in the palm of her hand. What a nice soft hand she ahd and maybe he would lotion it for her if she was good, That was it for tonight. He would see her next week when they would talk about her friendships and how she was feeling. Wasn't it nice of Sylvie to want this for her? And wasn't Sylvie a wonderful person. He had talked with Sylvie about all of the things they did in here. Good bye and goodnight. As she was slipping out the door he said, "hey let’s do some mentoring on a country picnic. It will be warm enough time after next."
 The second week he had a second gift. This one was awaiting her but when she reached for it, he said, "No I was just kidding." You have to prove yourself Miss. It's very expensive and the kind that Sonny told me to get for you.
  "Why" she asked. “I didn't do anything for a gift.”
    He smiled sort of looking her over--a look that make her happy and uneasy both. It seemed a little sexy or as if he was thinking of her like that. "Let's talk, “he said. 

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: What Nebraska Means to Me

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: What Nebraska Means to Me: I just finished writing my book which is going into publication and here I sit without a break thinking about what Nebraska means to me. Do...

What Nebraska Means to Me

 I sit thinking about what Nebraska means to me. Does the meaning come from being at the cabin and watching a deep red cardinal sit on the rail today, the prettiest bird I've ever seen? Is it the tress and water that surround me in all their hidden serenity? Or could it be the woman who helped me carry my purchases out of the store, because I looked tired and was spacey? Was it finding an Anne Tyler book in at Good Will, where I also found a first printing of Willa Cather's  "Oh Pioneers" 1940 paperback and a magazine on Nebraska Birds? Maybe it's my granddaughters here in Crete or the Pony Express Park and Methodist Church where our other home is. Some questions are hard put, but from the time when I was two and flew in my father's plane, until I was eight and found  jewelry in the knoll at the family dump and went down town and sold it, I loved Nebraska. It didn't stop there and it won't stop here. This is where I will one day be buried, my ashes scattered to the winds  on the plains. What Nebraska means, to me, and why I love it will remain a mystery-like secrets in the breeze and owls hiding in trees...

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: Pedophile Pastor Grooming Twelve Year Old in the R...

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: Pedophile Pastor Grooming Twelve Year Old in the R...: Pastor Evans in the process of grooming twelve year old Celeste Dusty in the Rag Princess. Celeste a farm girl has lost her parents and is l...

Pedophile Pastor Grooming Twelve Year Old in the Rag Princess

Pastor Evans in the process of grooming twelve year old Celeste Dusty in the Rag Princess. Celeste a farm girl has lost her parents and is living with an abusive aunt, Sylvie.

     Pastor reminded her that he was her only friend and that Sylvie would be furious if she didn’t please him. “You aren’t scared of me, are you, sweetheart? I would never do anything against God, and scaring you would make God very angry. Why are you afraid to sit in my lap?”

     She choked. How would she tell him?

    “Honey, we’ll talk about your fear of being hurt.” Right away, his arm was around her.

     She wanted to scream for him to sit in his chair and talk to her. She was too overwhelmed and shocked to be properly scared. Suddenly, she remembered how often he’d touched her. She guessed he was just touchy as a means of affection.

    “Now, now,” Pastor said. “It’s all right. Give me your hand, honey. Yes, that’s it. Let me soothe you.”

She cried, and he told her sweet things he’d noticed about her. At one point, she realized that her hand was on his thigh and was unsure of how it got there. He saw her looking and removed it, only to put his hand on her thigh. Surely, he was just being kind and wanting to father her …

      Thank goodness, it was time to go.

      Then he was asking her about the doll she had mentioned the second time they’d met. She’d described it. Surely, he wouldn’t. Would he? If so, he must really see her as being his little girl, which wasn’t so bad. Here she was, twelve and going to school with girls who’d have a fit if given a doll, but she craved her old doll.

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: From the Rag Princess-A Child's Vicious Encounter ...

Nebraska Notes-Passages and Poetry: From the Rag Princess-A Child's Vicious Encounter ...:  In writing this story about  a hired hand's daughter, a twelve year old, whose parents die-and who lands in harms way, my purpose is t...