Hope Martin
Bio
Find my fantasy book "Memoirs of the In-Between" on Amazon in paperback, eBook, and hardback, in the Apple Store, or on the Campfire Reading app.
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I am a mother, a homesteader, and an abuse survivor.
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How To Create A Dog Walking/Pet Sitter Business
Some things will always be in demand. Pet care is one of them. Pets are very rarely considered just an animals to people who have them. Most often, people cherish them - most often referring to their pets as their fur-children. I am one of those people - at 4 dogs and 17 cats (before anyone starts on me - only 3 of the cats are indoor, and the female ones are fixed, and about 70% of them are rescues).
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Journal
So Much Ambition - So Little Success Volume 1
I have so many thoughts in my head, and I guess just sometimes I just need to empty them out. So today I am going to bless you all with the random jumblings of money-making dreams I wish I could do. Some of these things I just don't know how to get my foot in the door and some of them stupid things are holding me back, like money.
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Journal
The Peep Show
Car in the drive-thru... Mom adjusts her breasts - nips flash. A man gets a show. (Y'all ready for this little snafu? Me, my mom, and aunt went to McDonalds, and we're sitting in the drive-thru. They are taking forever with someone's order, and we're past the order screen. There's a black truck in front of us. Mom says: "Oh my god, this bra is bugging me. I'm throwing it away when we get home." She reaches down and literally pulls her loose shirt down, and is like, fixing her breasts, pulling them out of the bra and repacking them in there trying to get comfortable. Mom's got big ones, okay? She had to get a boob job to add supportive silicone to help her back. So, those things are pretty noticeable. Especially to the man in front of us in a black truck, who had taken his reflective black sun glasses off, and leaned closer to his side mirror to get a better look at moms accidental peep show. Mom was so embarrassed when we noticed him basically drooling out his window, I thought we weren't going to get our food. LUCKILY the line moved then, so as my Aunt Cathy and I LAUGHED and LAUGHED and laughed some more... we inched forward to grab some fries.)
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Poets
The (Wrong) Loo
I rush to the loo... I hear a loud flush and see... Men standing to pee! (Based on a memory of being trapped in a stall in the men's bathroom at Sam's Club because I had to pee so bad I didn't notice which bathroom I ran into! I managed to sneak out without anyone seeing me... except an old lady who gave me the stink eye)
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Poets
I Only Allow That Which Is Good Into My Life. Top Story - October 2023. Content Warning.
I only allow that which is good into my life... This is true for me...now. It took me a long time to get to a point in which I can say, I only allow what is good into my life. I spent a long time allowing things that were not good for me into my life. So long in fact, that I did not know how to filter the bad out. Or that I even could filter out the bad. I had no clue that I could choose what came into my life.
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Motivation
Canceling Cancel Culture and Racism
For me… understanding racism is like being at the zoo and looking at a beast through glass. I was lucky. My mom somehow grew up to be someone who didn’t hate anyone for any kind of shallow reason. I didn’t learn anything from my biological father except how that some people are just trashy. Like him.
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Humans
The Shows That Got Me Through Covid
I feel like we don't talk about the Covid years a lot. I feel like a lot of us have pushed those dark times under the rug and we are just praying that we never have to go through it again. Sometimes, it can be hard to revisit the dark times.
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Geeks
Family Friendly Halloween Movies
I am a very insistent matriarch about family time. My children are still young, and I am trying to instill in them family values, and the importance of spending intentional time with each other. That way, when they have families of their own, their family is as happy as ours is. I mean, sure, we're still normal and have moments where we disagree with each other...but because we do spend time together as a family having fun, our bonds are strong.
By Hope Martin2 years ago in Families
