This weekend I’m in Monterey Bay for the Big Sur International Marathon and no, I’m not putting 26.2 miles on these precious piddy-pats of mine, particularly since the route follows Hwy 101 along the coast between Big Sur and Carmel making for one ridiculously hilly course. Instead I’m going to be sashaying my sweet little [...]

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For several months I’ve been following a blog by John Shore called Suddenly Christian. John won me over to his blog with his incredibly quirky sense of humor but in short order it was his heart for God that had me jonesin’ for his newest entries.
Yesterday I was working away on an upcoming entry that [...]

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I’d been a children’s pastor in a large conservative evangelical church for about a dozen years and my big “I’m a lesbian!” self-revelation was still two years in the future. On one of my errand days for the church I stopped off at Elmer’s Flag and Banner Store to pick up flags to be used [...]

Posted in Anita, Storytelling 4 Comments »

I’m in the middle of working on a couple posts that will be popping up over the next couple days. In the meantime, I thought I’d point you in the direction of a few excellent entries on blogs I stalk faithfully read.
Shush over at !*[emphatic asterisk] has posted a couple entries in recent days I’d [...]

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D and I met in 1999. In the summer of 2001 we registered as legal domestic partners in the State of California. Six years ago today D and I were married. In the photographic images above D is the radiant dark-haired beauty. I’m the dewy-eyed, bottle-enhanced blond with the goofy grin stuck on her face. [...]

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After the last entry I feel like I owe you something a little more lighthearted and since I have a head cold that’s knocked the funny right out of my brain, I recommend you click and dash over to Jon’s Stuff Christians Like. If you’ve gone to church all your life or at least long [...]

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It was the early 1990’s and only a few months after coming out I traveled to Northern California and while there I attended Sunday worship at MCC San Francisco. It was my first time to worship among other GLBTQ Christians and to worship openly as a Christian lesbian.
Throughout the service on that crisp autumn [...]

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Several weeks ago over at *! [ emphatic emphasis], Shush posted on Sighted Faith, an entry I so connected with that as I read each line I found my head involuntarily nodding in agreement like a plastic dachshund bobble head in the rear window of a 1980 Chrysler Cordoba. For me as well, faith is [...]

Posted in Christian Lesbian Identity, Coming Out, Faith, Storytelling 13 Comments »

My mom made an unplanned trip to the hospital last Monday and is still being probed, poked, and prodded as I blog this by a dozen doctors, interns, and residents who all look much too young and make me feel much too old. I arrived a couple days ago to join my siblings in hovering [...]

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I’m a Goof Ball. Whether it’s attributed to my middle-aged mental deterioration or faulty genetic coding remains to be discovered. All I know is I have what seems to be an innate propensity for those actions most attributed to those of a pathological Goof Ball and two nights ago was no exception. Case in point.
My [...]

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