.This year D and I have a tiny scarecrow and a trail of pumpkins leading to a whimsical ghost with a basket full of candy in his hands beside our front door. The porch lights are on signaling this is a Halloween-friendly house but still we’re wondering. Will the ghost scare the children away, or [...]

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So this is what I promise you. I won’t talk about Prop 8 forever, but right now Prop 8 is just about all that’s on my mind. The truth is, I’m surprised by how much it’s weighing on me as a lesbian, as a Christian, as a Californian, and as a woman who’s madly in [...]

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For the past two days my Wordpress Stats have been dismal, cut by more than half of the usual visitors to the site. These facts led me to the most obvious conclusion. No one liked me anymore.
And then the emails started arriving. “What’s wrong with your blog? It won’t open! Anita, I love you and [...]

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On this, Write to Marry Day, I asked Rev. Steve Harms, the pastor of Peace Lutheran Church, the congregation in spiritual partnership with SisterFriends Together, to offer some thoughts on marriage equality. Following Steve’s comments are several videos from other clergy speaking in opposition to Prop 8. They are all worth a listen.
The “Yes on [...]

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Next Tuesday is Election Day. In California the political ads on the radio and TV are less about the Presidential candidates than on several major state-wide measures. The one that has the full attention at our household is Proposition 8, which if passed, will eliminate the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry by [...]

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The other morning I stopped by our storage unit, filled up my car with Children’s Ministry materials and drove into Oakland where I donated it all to a neighborhood church. Most of the boxes were filled with teaching resources I’d accumulated in church work prior to coming out as a lesbian. Books with game, craft, [...]

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I’m running late on continuing where I left on in my last post because of some annoying sinus-packed, pounding-head, achy-body thing that I apparently lost to in a smack down. No pity please. I’m already getting ample attention and TLC from D. Anyway, until I’m back up in a vertical position which is normally best [...]

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While visiting the Pacific Northwest this past weekend I attended a conservative, evangelical Christian church on Sunday morning. Not just any conservative, evangelical Christian church but the one I attended for the first 20 plus years of my life. It was my home church from my prenatal existence until the day I headed south to [...]

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Here it is, another mystery photo contest, and an easy one if I do say so myself. Be one of the first two to correctly identify the photo and receive a $10 gift card from Starbucks. Since this is something we’re going to do on a regular basis, now seems as good a time as [...]

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There’s a children’s song I love…
On the day that D was born
On the day that D was born
On the day that D was born
The angels sang and they blew on their horns
And they danced, yeah they danced,
They raised their hands and danced,
On the day, on the day that D was born.
This morning when she wakes [...]

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