All of a sudden, I stopped falling. It felt like someone caught me. My sister’s face was as white as a ghost. She saw me be placed gently on the rocky ground, only no one was visible.
A Tale of Two Families: Part 1
Not long after marriage, the women found out she carried a child, an undoubtedly exciting time- a time of new life, a new addition to the family, and also a moment to bring more honor to the family line.
Chapter 1, My Name Is…
Please allow me to introduce myself…. My name is … Sandra Jean Hughes Goodwin Gavin Capobianco Riguzzi. It’s a mouthful and sooooo long that I had to start a new line just to fit it. I have so many aliases that nobody will ever be able to pin a crime on me, and if you ever googled my name, the thing spins and spins and spins because it gets all confused! Ultimately it will probably find my Facebook page, but all you have to do is click the link on my blog – it’s so much easier that way. So back to the name and how it came to be… here is my Readers Digest version, for now, all the fun(sarcasm) details will come later: When I was born, my mother was technically still married to her first husband, Donald Hughes. They had been separated, and she was dating my father, Joseph Goodwin. She got pregnant, and Joe took off like the chicken he was. She had me while still legally married to the Hughes guy, so…