Here is the link to listen to Hayley Rose Horzepa appear on Geraldo Rivera’s radio show:http://www.kabc.com/FlashPlayer/default.asp?SPID=41565&ID=2409698
Author Archives: Hayley Rose
Podcast of The Geraldo Rivera Radio Show Featuring a Brief Interview with Yours Truly
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A Strong Woman
I found this on Facebook. What are your thoughts on this? Please share in the comments section
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Mommie Dearest
What is it like to grow up with a parent who is not only abusive but a martyr? Hell. That’s what. I told myself I wouldn’t do it, but today I am going to write about my mother. She has pushed me over the edge. I want to make it clear that I do not have that mommy complex that causes a child to constantly try to win her mother’s love and approval (although my mother actually has this complex, but that’s another story). I gave up on winning my mother’s love and approval years ago because sadly, she is incapable of those emotions. I am not saying this to be snarky, it is true. She has some type of mental and emotional disorder that she refuses to seek treatment for. In addition, my mother is suffering from multiple sclerosis and refuses to take care of herself or her medicine. Instead she prefers to bitch and complain about it all day long, every day, about how much pain she is in- and then refuses to take pain killers too.
She doesn’t want to do anything- she is depressed and this is one of her symptoms. However, she refuses to take medication for her depression. Additionally, over the years she has degraded and knocked me when I took it upon myself to seek counseling for issues I had. She made fun of me and called me crazy- and this is something that has continued into my adult life to this day.
When I was leaving one of my last abusive relationships, a friend had to lock me in his kitchen to keep me from going back. Before he “let me go” the next morning, he sat down with me to make a checklist called “Things Hayley will Do Starting Now!”
One of the things on the checklist was “Stand up for yourself.” At the time I didn’t feel I could. In the midst of making this checklist he asked me why I let my now ex boyfriend swear at me. I paused for a moment to think. “My mother talks to me even worse.” Now mind you- I was 23 years old when this happened and my mother was still talking to me this way! Even at that old age my mother still yelled at me, called me names, and swore at me whenever she felt like it!
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Introducing Our Newest Contributing Writer: LHeure Bleue
Tomorrow our newest contributing writer, LHeure Bleue, will be publishing her first post here at Hayley’s Comments entitled, “Indigo Nights With Diamonds.” This is a breathtaking masterpiece and a must read so make sure you stop by the blog tomorrow.
LHeure Bleue named after the famous “Blue Hour,” a term coined in Post Impressionist France “refers to the period of twilight each morning and evening where there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness.” During this time in France the cultural climate changed rapidly, the avant-garde was prominent, and the original “Bohemia” was born.
LHeure was born in Cairo, Egypt, and immigrated to the US when she was 18 months old. She grew up in the Bay Area and inherited her father’s adventurous spirit. She began moving at an early age. Having lived in Southern California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Tennessee, and in Southern Minnesota for a decade as a farm wife, LHeure has obviously experienced a variety of cultures and climates. More facets of LHeure to be revealed in future posts!
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Tune in Geraldo Rivera This Morning!
Today I was invited to be on the Geraldo Rivera’s radio show this morning at 10AM on the NY station Wabc 770 and at noon on Kabc 790 in Los Angeles. Please tune in!
Listen to it over the internet at 10 AM at http://www.wabcradio.com/article.asp?id=2362811
And at noon at http://kabc.com/
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New at Hayley’s Comments: Contributing Writers!
Yes! Hayley’s Comments is expanding. Hayley’s Comments will now have contributing writers and new weekly columns. Watch tomorrow for our first post from Linda Seccaspina. Linda Seccaspina was born in Cowansville Quebec. She is an avid blogger, photographer and author. She used to own clothing stores in Ottawa and Toronto Ontario Canada from 1974-1996 called Flash Cadilac, Savannah Devilles, Nightmares and Flaming Groovies.
If you are not already familiar with Linda’s work, she will surely make a lasting impression tomorrow with her first post on Hayley’s Comments “Suicide- Inner Voices that Carry.” The article is about suicide and the place it had in Linda’s life. Linda has included some of her photography which enhances the piece and makes her story even more chilling. The post itself channels Sylvia Plath and the emotions in this story are so raw and real that I don’t think even Meryll Streep could perform it as well as Linda tells it.
Linda will be our first contributing writer. All the new contributing writers have great stories to tell. For the most part they can be described as strong women who made it through hell and back and lived to tell the tale. Make sure you stop by tomorrow to check out Linda’s post!
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A Woman’s Message to Rush
Hi Everyone- Please check out my new article that is being featured at the moment on The Huffington Post.
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My Rapist Doesn’t Know He’s a Rapist
I found this through a Facebook “share” this morning and thought you might appreciate it. I do not know the origins of this photograph. All I know is that is was taken at a DC Slutwalk.
Slutwalks are a recent slew of protests by women who are sick of being victim blamed for their rapes by their rapists and the culture at large.
Filed under Domestic Violence, Growth, Healing, Inspirational, Life Lessons, News, Sexual Assault
A New Feminist Movement? Will You Help?
I am calling for a new feminist movement and men, we really need your help.
Rush Limbaugh’s comments from last week still has people outraged. Though there are many men who despise him and his views on women, the fact that he is so forthright in the public eye suggests that many more of them are in agreement with his opinions. It is men like Rush who have given “feminists” a bad name and created the stereotype: that feminists are angry “man-haters.” Though he would probably deny it, it is obvious by his loose usage of the term “feminazi” that he has helped to perpetuate this hateful and outrageous stereotype. As a feminist, I have never been a man-hater nor met any feminists who were. It has been made clear by the public’s reaction to Rush’s recent rhetoric that both men and women are fed up with these unfair gender stereotypes and shamefully ignorant accusations.
I used to wonder how the public’s perception of the word “feminist” became so skewed from it’s actual definition “a person who advocates equal rights for women.” Instead of being viewed as courageous, people who dare to challenge the status quo in a country where women are still paid 20% less than what men earn in comparable positions, we are viewed with public disdain and branded man-hating rabble-rousers merely for daring to vocalize these glaring gender inequalities. Publicly, those with clout, like Rush, talk about and regard us with the same type of annoyance and irritation that they also reserve for the brave participants of the Occupy Movement.
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The Etsy Revolution
Note: This is an article I am writing for a fellow blogger, Sharon Nesbit-Davis’ blog. She works and blogs for the Rockford Arts Council of Rockford, Illinois.
I had only been on Etsy for a little while when I decided I was going to delete my site- demolish it, actually, like a wrecking ball to a dilapidated building. You see, I’d been on there for almost 3 months and hadn’t sold anything. Etsy is an online marketplace where artists can sell their goods. With sites like Etsy, long gone are the days where artists and artisans had to lend their goods out to shops and galleries on consignment to make a sale; a sale which sometimes costs the artist up to 50% of their sales revenue per item sold.
My family and I visited Salem, Massachusetts a lot when I was younger. There was this store on the corner of the main street that I always admired. Not only did it sell paintings and photography but a variety of colorful and unique home goods, really cool dishes, and a lot of handmade stuff. When the store was quiet, you could see the owner putting craft projects together and working on paintings at a little workstation in the center of the room. Sometimes she even had her baby with her cooing in the baby carrier slung across her back. I thought it was the coolest thing ever: to be able to do what you love in that capacity.
I wanted to one day have a store like this, a store where I could showcase and sell all my jewelry and paintings; things that otherwise sat untouched in boxes in my bedroom. I always wondered though, how would I ever be able to pay for such a thing. Rent wasn’t cheap especially for commercial space. Again with places like Etsy, what used to be a necessary overhead costs were now almost gone. No more overhead- well not no more overhead, but certainly no more overhead at those prices.
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