Start with the photographs. Words will follow. I have a new love. Hiking. It only took one short trail along the California Coast for me to be wooed and now I’m hooked. I have new trail shoes, a daypack with frame, and my hiking shorts have pockets within pockets. I have a GPS and map [...]

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You’ll notice the comment section on this blog post is closed. I’ve done so intentionally because I don’t want you to comment on what I’m going to write in this post. You’ve been more than generous in the past in offering encouraging and grateful words of SisterFriends Together and I don’t want you to think [...]

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Have you ever had so many thoughts banging around in your head with so many feelings behind them that you couldn’t find a way to sort through them all? This was one of those days for me. I sat at my computer all morning and into the afternoon with the intention of adding a post [...]

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I’ve become acutely aware of something on vacation. Wherever I go I always notice every gay person within 100 yards. D and I will be walking down a street talking about the most mundane things that married couples talk about but when another gay person or two walk by us our conversation ceases as we [...]

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. Oops. My bad. I forgot to mention that D and I were heading off on a short summer vacation which explains the scanty blogging and absence of replies to any emails you might have sent me during the past few days. I really do apologize for that but I thought if I told you [...]

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For years one of my most cherished childhood possessions was a Christian novelty item, a chintzy white porcelain six-inch plate with a picture of Jesus painted in the center; the light-skinned, blue-eyed, wavy blonde-haired, semi-smiling version of Jesus. Similar renderings of which could be found in my framed needlepoint wall hanging of the Good Shepherd [...]

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I’ve received some incredible emails this past week. I’ve read about the dazzling courage of a young gay youth who came out in the Bible Belt of our country to his conservative Christian parents and had the compassion and maturity to give them time to come around…and with open and loving hearts they did. I’ve [...]

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Update: It might be too good to be true but a few hours later and it appears the boards are operational again and the database has been restored. Happy dance. We are again attempting to upgrade the message board system as we tried unsuccessfully to do several months ago and it appears we’re running into [...]

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D and I were wandering around a clothing store today and as we headed out to our car D said, “You’re smaller than the other woman who was in the store.” [If you follow me over on Facebook or on my other blog you'll know that both D and I have lost a significant amount [...]

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[Note: If you hate, dislike, or have no emotional attachment to cats, run now. I mean it. Shut down your browser window, close the lid on your laptop and flee. Go clean up your dog's mess in the backyard or throw a slobbery wet tennis ball at the doggy park. You have now entered Cat [...]

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