Without going into detail, last summer, my daughter needed her father’s legal help and these were the conditions he wanted her to meet…he black mailed her into disowning me and saying my book is a lie.

I find this so desperate on his part because our daughter was not even born when half the content in the book occurred!

So, how would she even know?

Additionally, and for the record, my step mother rewrote her Will AFTER my book was released in 2014 to include my full inheritance (which had been denied to myself and my sisters when my father died in 2013) because my family knows I am telling the truth.

Finally, I dedicated my entire book to my brother who took his life at 17 as a victim of domestic violence in an alcoholic home. He would want people to know what happened. My daughter is the only one who asks about him and the kind of person he was. No one talks about him. It’s all about them. I am here to clear the ancestry so the next generation can step into a crystal clear future. I would never disparage my brother’s memory by attaching his name to anything less than the truth.

Seaside, Florida

My daughter posted this loving tribute publicly on her Facebook page this past December. Thank you sweetheart. All my love. Mom OXOX

I want to thank my Mom Jodi Parmley Kirkwood for always loving who I am no matter who I choose to love . Growing up I was called all kinds of names but she never makes fun of me or laughs at my struggles. She clears my insecurity and makes me feel so much stronger as a woman, I talk to her and it’s like the whole world’s opinion of what I do goes away and I feel confident again. She never says she will leave if I do something wrong and has fiercely been protective over me since I was diagnosed bipolar 3 years ago. Mental illness is hard and not laughable. It is a real cross to bear and I’m happy to have her support no matter what I say or do. Merry Christmas , can’t wait to spend Christmas day at Ruth’s Chris with you and Jack and family. Love is all that matters when a family breaks apart. The kids matter. I wish others saw her inner beauty like I can. God loves us in spite of our sin so why can’t we love each other in spite of our humanity. She is my best friend and I’m proud to be her daughter too. We don’t choose our parents but they chose us so the best love we can give is respect, kindness, love, and compassion. Xoxo

My daughter and I. Christmas at Ruth’s Chris 2019.

After recently hearing the details of Jesuit high school’s incidents of sexual and spiritual abuse on a local news station, I need to say the Catholic Church is NOT the last word in abuse by organized religion. I write about leaving the Catholic Church in my book due to the abuse of children.
This is the high school senior ring my fighter daughter gave me because the head and founding Pastor of a nondenomination megachurch hired EXTRA security to keep me from attending both my children’s graduation ceremony, TWO years in a row. A christian high school, no less. She also gave me her stole and tassel which I keep in my car. She is still healing from the abuse she incurred from being kept away from me, her mother, for 5 years and which this local christian high school and megachurch participated in.
I don’t know what kind of teeny tiny tic tac balls this Pastor has to have to hire extra armed manpower to keep a woman, in her 50’s…5’5” and a size four, off his church campus!
And has the audacity to stand as a representative of God and tell a 14 year old girl, my daughter, “you can never reconcile with your mother.” There is scripture that says it is better for such a person to have a millstone tied around his neck and cast into the sea than to harm one of these little ones. I will never forget the damage done to my children.

PLEASE KNOW IF LOUISIANA FAMILY COURT CAN TAKE MY CHILDREN AWAY FROM ME , they can do it to anyone.

I have been professionally educated in the health and wellbeing of children. I worked at Children’s Hospital for years in NICU, PICU, general pediatrics and Oncology. Working with children and their families dealing with cancer, I was asked to be a full time staff member bc they saw the skills and compassion in me needed to care for very sick children. I also worked as a Nurse Case Manager for Children’s Hospital Ventilator Care Program. These are children going home to live on a ventilator. I was also one of the first nurses to be a part of Ochsner Hospital’s transport team, flying to other states or by ambulance to bring sick babies back to Ochsner. I worked in psychiatry with children and adolescents at River Oaks and was told by Dr. Dowling that I was one of their best psychiatric nurses. My record for working in hospitals on both sides of the lake is spotless. Academically, I graduated with honors(Sigma Alpha Chi) from Charity Nursing School (which in the 80’s was the second best nursing school in the nation) and became double certified as a CCRN in adult med-surg and NICU. I wrote a CCRN study guide and taught a course preparing nurses who wanted to take the CCRN exam, a highly respected certification by the medical profession as well as doctors.