My blog posts have been far and few between over the past three months. There was our vacation in mid-summer followed by my two surgeries followed by my mom’s death three weeks ago. There were times I didn’t post because I was delightfully busy with life, other times I was fuzzy-brained from pain medications and [...]

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For the last two weeks leading up to and following my mom’s death, D and I have been surrounded by people whose faith is grounded within conservative Christianity. These are the people who hold starring roles in the memories of my childhood and youth. They are the people who as adults already themselves watched me [...]

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For those who follow me on Facebook, you already know my mom passed away this past week and I know I’m one of the fortunate ones. I had a good mother. A wonderful one. The best. I’m grateful Mom’s passing was gentle and without pain. I’m grateful that along with my brothers and sister I [...]

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I’m not able to blog at the present due to an illness in the family. I will be back as soon as possible. Blessings, Anita

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Dear Friends, If you’ve been following my drug-hazed meanderings over on Facebook you already know I’m moving along rapidly in healing from my recent surgery.  This entire process has been a phenomenal and surprising experience in my life. I went into these two elective post-weight loss surgeries for the purpose of having excess skin removed [...]

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Today is surgery day and chances are as you read this I’m in the middle of a 8-9 hour nip and tuck marathon. If you have an extra minute between praying for world peace and a parking spot, I’d appreciate a prayer or two with my name attached. It’s not that I have any fear [...]

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I’m taking this opportunity to talk about me because at this moment others are talking about me. My blog buddy, John Shore wrote a story about me, or more specifically, John wrote about my cookies (that’s to be taken literally and not euphemistically) in a blog post entitled Nothing Says Love Like a Lesbian Christian [...]

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I am a phenomenal dancer. I feel the music and shake it up like nobody’s business. When I’m home and the curtains are drawn, the lights are off, and the music is cranked up, I get my groove on. In my imagination. In the real world, I’m a pathetic dancer. So pathetic if you saw [...]

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In a little more than a week I’m going into the hospital for one final surgery. This means that beginning on Tuesday, September 22 I’ll be taking a break from blogging for two weeks during the initial phase of post-surgical recovery. If you’d like to follow updates on my progress and other random nuggets of [...]

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During the week following surgery I had done little more than sleep on the couch, sleep on the recliner,  sleep on the bed and gulp down pain medication (hence all the aforementioned napping), so when D left one morning to run errands I thought enough was enough; it was about time I get up and [...]

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