When you are bullied or hurt,..be like the puppy,..who runs from the scene yelping,.."Yooooooowe!  Yowwrrr!  Yooowrr!!"

Make a noise.  Tell other people about what the bullies are doing to you. Don't let them get away with it.

Below is a "The Wheel Of Life Is Still Turning" pose....

S'funny.  Ten years ago,..I was on a scifi website for a certain television show and one of the chief entertainments for that website was not the television show itself,..but the act of cyberbullying.  It was considered cool there to pick out a person,..who didn't "go with the flow and general opinion" and harass the hell out of that person on the website and off the website.  The bullying carried on into the Real Lives of the folks, who used to haunt the website and even spawned "speshial" websites for a flowery few,..who desired to have a private place for their form of mental..errm..."excercises." 

Those of us, who were "cyberbullied,"..were told to suck it up as the cyberbullies  were superior in everyway to us,..the "cyberbullied," and we,..the underdogs,..were to accept our "rejection" as the "speshial" people and their friends went to their new heavenly homes in their new websites and never had to deal with the non- "speshial" people again. 

Sooo I dealt with the situation as I have always dealt with such situations.  I didn't "suck it up,"..nor did I "shoot myself" as suggested by one of them by email,..(she couldn't understand how an "ogre,"..like myself,..could even stand my own existence.) 

Instead of shooting myself,...I wrote about the cyberbullies online and offline.  After all, they were so proud of their cyberbullying and so happy to not have to deal with the "scum" as the bullied were refered to,..I felt that they deserved recognition for their grand accomplishment: their cyberbullying.

And I backed up what I was saying about the cyberbullying with dated photocopies of what those bullies had written to me, emailed to me, and had written about such bullying online.

I told two college professor friends of mine about the bullying and got to teach special college classes on those "speshial" people and their "speshialness,"  and how they were busily trying to destroy other people's lives.  I backed up what I was saying with the photocopies that I had taken of the bullying and twice led seminars on the distinctive types of mental aberations and lack of self-esteem, self empowerment, and self control on the part of folks, who must indulge in an online mob mentality, known as cyberbullying. 

A Deaf friend let me use her blog,..which reached about a half million Deaf and Hearing folks,..to use the examples of those "speshial" people as an example of cyberbullying at it's worst..  I went before some friends of mine on the Ohio Governor's Council On People with Disabilites and lobbied with Ellie, a friend of mine,..whose disAbled son was one of the bullied on that old scifi bboard,.. for a change in the laws in the state of Ohio on cyberbullying. 

All of the noise I made did attract a lot of attention of a positive kind,..it got my Deaf Blind friend, Miss Nellie Zimmerman,..a tombstone, a second book from our small publishing company, and a state memorial marker in the cemetery in which she is buried.  It got an unknown high school girl a chance to illustrate a book and a four year college scholarship. 

The cyberbullying from that old bboard gave me an idea for a reminder of the "speshial people," of the old scifi bboard.  I made meself a "speshial" plaque,..a copy of one of the cyberbully posts,..which stated that the WALKING FREE: THE NELLIE ZIMMERMAN STORY book..didn't exist because the cyberbully SAID that it didn't exist!!

.I keep that plaque above my desk to remind me of what cyberbullying can do to other people and how those cyberbullies count on their victims' silence and percieved helplessness as a means of covering up what they had to do to get a two second "mental orgasm" and false rush of "power" from their cyberbullying.

After ten years of sounding off about the stupidity of those old cyberbully posts on that now defunct website,..a online friend asked me to "give the subject a rest."  She said that ten years had gone by and the people involved had moved on and I should too.  As I had milked the situation for everything that it was worth,..I decided to follow her request. 

Then,..my son told me about Grace McComas,..the fifteen year old girl, who committed suicide because of cyberbullying.  Something inside of me saw red.  Selfish social stupidity still reigns online........

Grace,..in memory of you,..I shall wear blue as requested by your family.

And I won't  "shut up"......

To the cyberbullies,...

"How famous do ya wanna be?" (tm)

(Below is Stanelle in a standard "nominating pose!!"):

UPDATE:  My nominee,..W...W...,...from Brewster, Ohio, has been advanced to the "Peer Review Committee"...which means..she'll be brought up for consideration in two weeks for the National Hall Of Fame For Mountain Artisans!!  I do believe that she is a "shore-un!!" This is as of April 27, 2012,..today!!  I really admire this lady and I do believe that she DESERVES to be in the Hall Of Fame,..but the decision is not mine to make!!  There are several other steps that the Review Committee must go through.  All I could do was nominate her!!

Heh!  I was telling an online friend, Miss Bully,..that a joke was made about me nominating a person in the musical catagory!! 

Yeah!  Right!! 

I am HOH and totally tone deaf as well.  It is a joke with my college friends that my mom forced me to take piano lessons for seven years...even though she knew that I couldn't hear and she knew that I was tone deaf!!  I guess mom thought that if she hit me over the head with a broom handle enough,..I would magically began to play the piano like a virtuoso and didn't do so on her command just because I was stubborn!!

Anyway..........

W..W..will be going before the Peer Review Committee for the Hall Of Fame in less than two weeks.  I'll post updates for those interested!!

*******************************************************

W...W.... carves like no one that I've ever seen before.  Her speciality is duck decoys and those duckies that she carves are so real that someone, who is looking at those wooden duckies,..stands breathless as she waits for those duckies to quack!!  My Lord!!  One can even see grooves in the feathers that this woman,..this mountain artisan,...carves on her decoy ducks!!  AND she hand paints all her own work!!  Her carving and painting talents are simply tremendous!! 

And don't get me started on this woman's song bird carvings!!  (I could rave all night as to just HOW real this woman's work is!!  I have an understanding of the difficulty of just how hard it is to carve song birds,..I used to carve the little.."tweetie sweeties,.meself,"..but no more!!  I was told that my yellow wild canaries were fairly realistic,..W...W...'s carnaries are so real that I  could have sworn that I DID HEAR one sing!!) 

This lady goes to national woodcarving conventions and wins for her duck and bird carvings!!

SHE WINS!! 

I feel honored to have met her and I feel honored to make her the Nominee for North Eastern Ohio for a place in the National Hall Of Fame for Mountain Artisans!!

Woof!! I want her to place so bad!  She certainly deserves it!!

There are certainly some folks in this world, who make the world a better place for just their having been born and W... W.... of Brewster, Ohio is one of those folks.  She is a genius with a carving knife and tooling equipment!!  As they say in the Hunger Games,.."May the odds be with her!!"

PLEASE VISIT THE NATIONAL HALL OF FAME FOR MOUNTAIN ARTISANS IN HARLAN, KENTUCKY!!

"Being single means that you can do whatever and whomever you want!!"  Heh!!