Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman
Bio
Published Writer and Artist. Singer/Actress. College grad.
I don't use Spellcheck or Grammerly and my laptop has sticky keys so there will be typos. Sorry.
Stories (148/0)
Facebook went to hell
Mark Zuckerburg, I don't know if you sold out or if you just don't care anymore. Facebook has gone to hell. I've never seen it this bad in all the years I've been visiting that site. I used to love your website. I used to have great chats with friends and new people. I used to love the memes and political banter. I even thought that marketing options for businesses was a great addition and the share and send to Facebook links were wonderful for awhile. But now, it's all trash. It's all ruined. I have deleted my account so many times and then with some sad pathetic lonely hope I return and reinstate my account only to be tragically disappointed at how bad it is now.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman21 days ago in Geeks
The Legal System is Wrong
In April, I was depressed. Not only did I turn 53 years old after a divorce from a 12 year marriage, I was broke, overweight, jobless, on a poor disability check, and lonely as hell. I was desperate for attention. I wasn't on any medication and whether I was hearing the voices (that often talk with me especially when no one else is around) or I wasn't hearing them, I was so depressed I was crying more often than is normal for me. I felt trapped and like the whole world had abandoned me. I reached out to the suicide hotline (988) and when I said some ridiculous overdramatic nonsense, they called the police. The police then baker-acted me and I was hospitalized for two weeks. Do you think that cured my depression? No. It made things even worse.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman23 days ago in The Swamp
Smutty Pulp Novels are worthy of reading
When I was a teen, my two best girlfriends and I would write romance novels in our composition books. Each time we'd finish the next chapter we'd get together and read it to each other. We'd pretend that we were the main characters and we'd really get a kick out of seeing how the stories would unravel from each writer. We all three had our own ideas of what was "romantic" and how plot should unfold. It was a lot of fun and I wish I would have been able to keep all those old stories in those composition books because some of those ideas and notes were much more sophisticated than one might expect from your average teen.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman24 days ago in Filthy
Learning and Growing in the Garden
I live in Florida even though I was born in New Jersey and lived up north for the first 11 years of my life. I can deal with snow, but I don't like driving in it. I learned how to drive in Florida, so snow driving scares me. It's funny to me, or ironic, that New Jersey is also known as The Garden State. If you've ever seen the majority of New Jersey you'd think that was funny also. It's very different from Florida in regards to scenery. They don't have much in common except for both having beaches, both having overpriced housing, and both having corporate businesses like restaurants we all know and love. Besides that they are like night and day. What does that have to do with my "Growing in the Garden" article? A lot actually. I grew up in both places and if I compare myself to a plant, a tree, or a flower, then it's important for me to think about how I grew in a tropical climate with a different type of soil, compared to a four seasons location where the soil is much richer.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman24 days ago in Longevity
This is not the life I ordered, but...
I thought I did everything right. I followed the course for the most part. I stayed out of trouble, or at least I thought I was. I worked, I had good people as friends, I gave my heart to Jesus, and I even went to college and became a college grad. So how did I end up at 53 years old on Social Security disability, divorced, and only one more mistake away from sleeping at a homeless shelter? I've been trying to figure that out for a long time. No, this is not the life I ordered. I wanted to have a career that would take care of more than my basic needs. I wanted to have a marriage that was unbeatable. I wanted to feel secure and happy, more so than what Social Security offers.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman26 days ago in Confessions
The Buffet is the best Bang for the Buck
I love the buffet! Today it's confusing where to go to eat. Staying home isn't as low cost as it used to be. A home of two people can easily spend 200 dollars on groceries per week if they're not penny pinching careful. So sometimes it is easier and cheaper to eat out. Of course, since the minium wage was raised, the prices of what used to be "cheap" food (ie: McDonalds and the fast food chains) isn't "cheap" anymore. When my sweetheart and I go to any drive-thru we know we won't get what we want without having 20 bucks at least. The value menu is gone. There is no more Dollar for a burger option. I gasped in horror when I realized that a large french fry is now $5.00. So I made sure to buy a bag of potatoes at the grocery store. They'll go a lot further.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman26 days ago in Feast
Once a Journalist, Now a Writer
In high school, I just wanted to pass my classes and make it to graduation. I was not a straight-A student although I admired them. I was average in my studies, because of the course load and my passion for "electives" such as Journalism and Theater. I figured if I couldn't be an actress, I could always write. So I put most of my passion and concentration into those two areas.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman3 months ago in Journal
A Victim of Ignorance and Greed
Most of my adult life, I have been a renter or a guest. As a child, I was not expected to contribute financially to my mother's rent or mortgage payments. However, after high school graduation, as an independent adult, I was expect to afford my own housing. That expectation is not unfair, but for over 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced many leases or contracts or rental agreements that have been unfair and according to American history, illegal.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman8 months ago in The Swamp
Dating Tactics
This month marks my first divorce and it should be finished by the end of the year. Knowing this was inevitable, I've been re-learning social media and new options for re-joining the ranks of single and dating life. It's been 13 years since I've been in the arena so I'm definitely rusty. I think I still have attractive facets to bring to the singles tables, but learning about it again after over a decade has been challenging.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman8 months ago in Humans
The Existential Woman
Each day that passed in October was slow. Shanna recalled the past over and over again in her mind. Time spent with family. Time spent with her brother. Time spent with boyfriends.Time spent in school. Time spent on work. So much time, so many memories in her mind. Always the calender reminding her of the days, the weeks, the months, the years, the seasons.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman8 months ago in Fiction
The Existential Woman
Norman and Shanna shared his small house. He had added an apartment to the house where the old garage used to be. Shanna had thought at first that he had done so for either him or her to live in and enjoy, so that they wouldn't have to be "room mates" anymore. But that wasn't on his mind at all. Instead he signed up for some program through some charitable organization which helped place homeless people in suitable housing. He got some kind of kick back for his donation.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman9 months ago in Fiction
The Existential Woman
Being back at her brother's house did not make Shanna happy. He'd inherited the house over two years ago, and for all the money he'd spent on this and that the house still looked awful. Sure there had been some improvements, but none that the neighborhood would notice. The fence in the backyard hidden to any walking by. The new refrigerator, stove, washer, dryer, would not be considered cosmetic improvements. The watered, raked, and mowed grass would only be considered basic maintenance. Shanna's paintings or decorations would only be considered "silly" or "temporary", not substantial or valuable. So when Shanna sat around his house while he was at work day to day, she tried to blind herself to these details.
By Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer Norman9 months ago in Fiction