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Spring Speaking Indiana First Stop
I had my first speaking engagement for my spring speaking tour of 2011 and it was a blast. I am use to traveling alone but I had company for this trip so it made for a great road trip to Indianapolis with my younger sister and friend Dan. The event was put on my Indiana […]
Traveling Through This Life
As a two-year-old you can see what I get excited about after waking from a nap. At that age life should be about having fun and having nothing to worry about. My father always tells me you have your entire childhood on camera. He is right my mother had that camera going all the time […]
13 Years Later
I began that diary entry 13 years ago at 2:35 a.m. saying, “I just want to die. I am in so much pain and can’t stop crying. It got really bad tonight. I feel so dirty right now. I am sitting in bed with images running through my head of tonight.” I can remember every […]
Broken Girl
Erin’s Law in Missouri
Missouri Senator Ryan McKenna has been following Erin’s law and attached a bill to it in Missouri. Missouri Senate Bill 286 develops the task force for age appropriate curriculum on sexual abuse in schools. I was asked to come testify in Missouri to the Senate but had to send my testimony in through video. Today […]
Revisiting Memories
.u?op ?p?sdn ???| ?no? u?n? u?? p|??? ? s? p?snq? ?||?nx?s bu??q A once innocent, carefree, happy child can go from a confused, scared, angry child. Later in life you can spend so much time having painful memories haunt you. So often you go back and visit painful events but how often do we go […]
Innocence
Innocence Innocence can be gone in the blink of an eye.
Keeping Busy with Erin’s Law
People know with Erin’s law being signed two weeks ago by Governor Quinn my vision moving forward is to get President Obama’s attention. So I did my research on who I need to reach out to in United States House and Senate and of course President Obama himself. In each letter I included a copy […]
Guest on Headline News Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell
It has been a great week with the signing of Erin’s Law on Monday by Governor Quinn, the vision I now have is one step closer now that it is signed into law. Over the course of the week I did several newspaper interviews, landed an interview with Marie Claire Magazine United Kingdom Edition that […]
Erin Merryn on Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell
Author Erin Merryn, part of a panel on Issues discussing sexual abuse and Erin’s Law around the breaking case of the Brown siblings.