Silhouettes Images of You

Silhouettes Images of You

By Janeal Mulaney

You came into my life when I was feeling lost,

You opened up my mind and heart telling me there’s more.



When I would talk, you would listen,

When I would smile, you would laugh.

When I would cry, you would hold me tight,

When I would doubt, you would tell me more.



Now there is a silhouette, a face I have yet to see.

An image in my mind of a special person, I have yet to meet.



You talk about the wind, clouds, and even rain,

You talk of stars falling in my eyes, and make a poem from my name.

You tell me how I’m to be treated, as you heal each and every scar,

My silhouette shines down on you, as my soul soars above the sky.



The image of your silhouette haunts me through my nightly dreams,

Are you a gentleman or a wild wolfish beast?

Or could you really be something in between?



I know it does not matter for the silhouette I want to meet

Be you part wolf, the other part my gentleman.

For in my dreams your silhouette surrounds me like a cloak.



Separating us from others who may never understand.

How I could care about a silhouette image of my wild wolfish gentleman.ã

Should Men Carry Their Own Condoms

There are arguments for both sides to carry condoms, and I know my story is in no way unique by any means, but if it helps one person out there than it has been worth writing.




I was twenty years old, and my fiancé at the time had moved me to a different town. I had been on birth control for two years and like many women I had carried condoms with me since high school just in case. I had lived with Cole for over six months and had a few more weeks of pills left, but I couldn’t get back to my regular doctor to get a new prescription for more pills at that time. I told Cole about not having anymore pills and told him he would need to go pick up condoms, or buy some the next time we went to the store. He hated wearing them, so he didn’t bother to buy any. My pills were gone, our wedding was planned for the next month, and I’d asked him if he was going to get some, he said it didn’t matter.



So we started our family early. Our first child was born eight months and eleven days after our wedding. I was breast-feeding so I was still unable to take the pill. My husband and I again had a talk about what we should do about birth control. He was still against buying condoms. Our second child was born seventeen months and one day, after our first child.



After fourteen years of marriage, we went our separate way like so many couples do today. After we had separated he came over one night to talk, and he brought up our children. He informed me that he hadn’t been ready for kids, when we had ours. So I asked him why he hadn’t bought the condoms all those years ago, if he hadn’t wanted kids at that time. His answer had been it was my responsibility to take care of the birth control.



I thought then as I think now, all those times he wanted sex, what was his responsibility, when was his responsibility suppose to start. I’m sorry but I’ve heard this story from so many women, he didn’t want to use a condom because he doesn’t get the same feeling, or they break anyway so why bother. I’ve heard men claim over and over how some woman tricked them into marriage because they got pregnant with their child, or how they have to pay for a child because some woman said she was on the pill.



Why are you guys listening to some woman instead of making sure yourself, that you will be safe while having sex with a woman? You buy your own clothes; you buy your own socks and shoes. So I suggest you buy your own condoms, that way you get to have a say in when your children are conceived.



Gentleman it can make a difference in your child support later on. If you don’t want the responsibility of paying child support or raising children when you are not ready for children, be responsible enough to buy condoms. There are times women do not feel it should be up to them to cover up something on your body.

Is There Any Truths to The Story about The Headless Horseman Story

The Headless Horseman Myth

By Janeal Mulaney


The best-known myth came from the imagination of Washington Irving through a short story called ‘The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow’. Although it has shown up in many different states for various reasons they all seem to stem from the one short story.

The first time I heard the legend of the headless horseman it was in Colorado, it was indeed different then the headless horse I later read about in the school library. In my hometown it didn’t have a covered bridge in the story, this might have been because we had no covered bridge, but we did have an old rickety bridge that crossed over a canal and that was our bridge in the story. Our story also left out any reference to a man named Ichabod Crane. In fact it left out all the caricatures except for the headless horseman.

I’m not sure what started this fable or ghost story, maybe an adult started the story to keep children away from the old bridge which in fact had started to rot away and was no longer safe. I just know as a child, we were told the headless horseman stayed on the bridge to collect children’s heads, and he would take off the head of anyone who tried to pass over the old bridge and throw the bodies into the canal so no one could find them.

Reading over the Internet I’ve found even more stories about the headless horseman and why he was created for different purposes. In Texas it was due to cattle rustling, and he was called El Muerto, or the Dead One. It is claimed that anyone who saw him ran screeching like banshees into the night.

In Ireland and Scotland among other countries there are also legends about a headless horseman.

It is very easy to imagine these fables have some kind of fact behind them, with all the wars that have come and gone throughout the years of our Nation’s history as well as wars throughout the world. Many myths are made up of some kind of truth, maybe there was a Hessian soldier that was in the British army, and maybe he was beheaded. A lot of people were back then, some are still beheaded today. We do know that there was a man named Ichabod Crane, and there have been millions of schoolteachers throughout our history. So it’s not too far of a stretch to believe the short story was made up with more truths than fiction.

What ever is fact and what ever part is fiction it has became a wonderful classic for children as well adults.

Stranger in my Life

Stranger in my Life


Not too long ago I meet you, you said all the right things
You whispered and spoke of a love so wonderful
I fell into your arms ready for you to sweep me away
For months you cherished and loved me like I had never been before

I thought our love was special I thought our love was true
The tender way you touched me, the sweet cards you sent
Told me of a love that was written within the stars
As I fell more and more each day, you made dreams come true
You gazed into my big blue eyes and told your sweet lies

For you know I was head over heals in love with you
I gave of myself more and more with every breath I took
Until you had everything you wanted
I had put all my faith in you only to realize that you deserved none
I put all my trust in you only to find you were never thrust worthy
I believed in you only to realize you wanted to use my love to your own means
One be one the promises you made you broke in everyway possible

Never once did I understand what you had truly done
Until that faithful day you left me for another who will now be used
I hear you each night in my dreams telling her the same lies you once told me
I feel for her for someday soon she will be where I once was

I cannot warn her for you have spread so many lies she would not want to believe
That you are the enemy to one and all women who have a tender heart
And want to believe that there is goodness within each person
Now I know that although you may still have some good buried deep within

You are too twisted to ever try to reach the wonderful love God placed within
By Janeal Mulaney