Last Friday morning my beloved and I went to the deYoung Museum in San Francisco to view an exhibition on Post-Impressionism. Before you become impressed by my interest in any kind of impressionism you need to know that my wife is the cultured one in our household and I only went along because that’s what [...]

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Me. My brother Randy. My mom’s left elbow. Same headboard. Same but cooler brother. Same and still adoring sister. Me and Randy playing with my new race car set on Christmas morning. Yes. I wanted and got a race car set. What do you mean you aren’t surprised? What are you trying to imply? Out [...]

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[The following post serves no earthly purpose other than allowing me a self-indulgent airing of events from my life. I might as well just blog my shopping list for what it matters to anyone else.] I was surprised to read recently that Portia de Rossi has legally taken on Ellen’s last name to become Portia [...]

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I realized this morning that I’ve been doing this for 15 years and by this I mean blogging before blogging was the word. I started with a home page that became a website that became a blog. New terminology, old message. God loves you. You’d think by now I’d have come up with something new [...]

Posted in Just a Thought, SisterFriends 8 Comments »

As of this afternoon the five copies of “Like Me” offered the other day have been claimed and interestingly enough only one of them will be remaining in the United States with the others being sent to Australia, Germany, and two copies to South Africa. I just love that we are everywhere! I also want [...]

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When news broke recently that Chely Wright had come out publicly as a lesbian, you could have colored me with a big clueless crayon. I had no idea who she was, no doubt a side effect of my complete and total lack of interest in the entire genre of country music (with apologies to all [...]

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Carol was married to Ray for 30 years. During all those years Ray loved his Carol and Carol loved Ray. At the same time Ray was also struggling with being gay and eventually told Carol. Ray and Carol did everything two people in love could do to find a solution, and the solution they came [...]

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We make plans, and God laughs. My intention to spend today blogging in the glow of my laptop with a Bible on one side and a cup of coffee on the other was superseded by happenings that were never in my plan book. God must have been guffawing himself silly. So here’s hoping for Friday, [...]

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Today I decided to take my bright and shiny iPad out for it’s first blogging test drive to see what this baby could do besides beat me beyond humiliation in Scrabble. And so for the past two hours I’ve been contently sitting here at Starbucks tapping lightly on my glistening little tech toy on my [...]

Posted in Anita, Techno Nothingness 5 Comments »

For those who’ve been so faithful in following this blog, there’s no doubt you’ve noticed in recent months that my posts have been a little slower in coming. I really have struggled with this because while my desire is to blog regularly there’s been a series of challenges that have had more of an effect [...]

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