I remember seeing the words “morbidly obese” on my medical chart for the first time when I was in the sixth grade. Though I didn’t fully understand what the words meant I pieced together it wasn’t good. No one had ever called me “obese” before, but as the biggest girl in all my elementary [...]

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Incoming metaphor! Stop, drop, and roll.
I’ve only entered two other races in my short “athletic” career. I completed a half-marathon a couple summers ago which turned out to be a miserable experience due to ridiculously hot weather that slowed me to a pace considered competitive only among potato bugs. By the time I crossed the [...]

Posted in Christian Living, Love and Grace, SisterFriends, Storytelling 8 Comments »

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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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 [...]

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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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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 »

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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I was the only girl I knew whose grandma had two kitchens. There was the kitchen on the main floor of my grandparents farm house and then there was the downstairs kitchen, Grandma’s cookie kitchen, warmed by double ovens and bathed in the sweet baked smells of banana cupcakes and yeasty sourdough breads, but mostly [...]

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