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Anne Elrod Whitney

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    Abuser in jail. Boom.

    November 18, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    They got him. This is Mike Spiller, the gymnastics coach who sexually abused me when I was 10. It took 39 years, but tonight there’s ONE LESS ABUSER out there getting away with it. Thanks so much to the people who shared, retweeted, looked up old photos, etc. It took your help to turn up enough of my fellow victims/warriors…

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    What memories and Webb telescope images have in common (TBW #2, #9, #10)

    July 27, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    If you’re not excited about the Webb telescope images, you should be. (Yeah, I said it! Should! I am telling you what to do, and I don’t even care if it’s polite. I’m right here. Go look. Seriously.) They’re pictures of as far away as anyone has ever been able to see, and for that reason, they’re also pictures of…

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    Gymnastics coach Mike Spiller abused me in the 1980s and is still working with kids in Texas gymnastics, circus, and camps (TBW#1)

    June 25, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    In 1983 and for a while after, the gymnastics center in Northwest Houston that I attended held sleepovers. These were fun extras, like the lock-ins a church youth group might have. But, beyond the normal kid fun of a sleepover my friends, something else happened. My coach, Mike Spiller, whom I adored and whose attention and approval I craved, sexually…

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    June 17, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Ironic? Now serving as Safety Monitor for a USA Swimming event.

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    The Big Scary TBW List

    June 16, 2022 - By Anne Elrod Whitney

    Do you have a to-be-read list? Or shelf or pile or bags full, like my kids and I do? Are you such a cool reader kid you call it a TBR? There’s an art to the TBR, and I don’t have it. Take for example my friend and colleague Rob, who one magical year actually accomplished the impossible of actually…

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