I just wanted to put up a quick mention that I probably won’t be adding any new posts for the next ten days to two weeks. Following a brief but difficult journey with advanced stage four cancer my mom-in-law passed away early yesterday morning and so for these next few days I need to turn [...]

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I received word from this blog’s host provider that they will be moving my account to another server sometime in the next seven days. This could potentially result in some downtime on my personal blog (The Passionate Plate), Sisterfriends-Together, and the SisterFriends Community Forum. Should you not be able to access either blog or the [...]

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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 [...]

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Tuesday morning I was glued to my iPad for two hours following the live feed from WWDC10, Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference. That’s right. I just came out of the closet. I’m a Christian Lesbian Gadget Geek. I embrace my whole self and make no apologies for it. The WWDC is the annual conference (i.e. [...]

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As promised or threatened earlier, depending on how you look at these things, I’m going to be putting up the occasional re-post while the schedule around our present lives remains in flux and by all accounts unpredictable at each and every given moment. The selection criteria for deciding what posts I’ll recirculate is based simply [...]

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In recent days life has changed in our household. Since my last post D and I have become the primary caregivers for her mom following a recent diagnosis of advanced stage four lung cancer. Everything else has taken back seat in our priorities to being with and taking care of her mom and that’s how [...]

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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 [...]

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I know that there are a number of you who follow this blog through various subscriptions which means SisterFriends comes to you via email or RSS feed rather than you coming to SisterFriends. As someone who regularly follows more than 100 blogs myself I appreciate the convenience of doing it that way but it comes [...]

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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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Tomorrow is my annual children’s gingerbread house party at our church which has made for a nonstop week of making and bagging 28 pounds of icing, gathering last minute supplies, opening and prepping two enormous cases of candy, and then schelpping all of it along with the parts for 35 houses to the church! It’s [...]

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