I love that a number of you are friends of mine over on Facebook, so much so that I’m more than willing to put up with the constant pokes and mountain of invites to Farmville, CityVille, FishVille, FrontierVille, and PainInTheButtVille to follow your spine-tingling, action-packed status updates. But for those of you over on Facebook [...]

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So here I am. Just like I said I would be when last I posted back in September 2010. September 2010. By my best estimate that’s about a hundred years ago in dog years and about 15 years, 7 months, 26 days and 3 hours in queer years. At least for this one queer. Yep, [...]

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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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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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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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This week I unveiled my personal blog,  The Passionate Plate: Savoring Life in Small Bites, which focuses on three areas of interest to me: Food and Health (Savoring), Spirituality and Faith (Saviouring), and Our Adventures at Home and on the Road (Savouring). I hope you stop by sometime. Oh, who am I kidding?! I want [...]

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I have some crazy collections for a middle-aged woman. I’ve managed to stockpile about 200 Starbuck gift cards, a small suitcase of postcards, and my Pez Candy Dispenser collection is currently hovering somewhere around 500, give or take. I have another collection. Domain names. At present I own 11 of them, and yes, in case [...]

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Tomorrow afternoon and Wednesday I’ll be blogging my two final posts in the series on Dyke Dating and Lesbian Relationships, and so my question is where do we go from here? Along with my usual meanderings I’d like to focus the blog topics on areas that are of concern or interest to you and so [...]

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As of 10:00 a.m. Pacific Coast Time Wednesday morning, February 25, the SisterFriends Community Forum remains inaccessible. We had hoped to get it back up and running after the upgrade within a couple hours but realized late last evening that the re-installation was on hold until this morning when we could reach our server company [...]

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Due to a bit of a fever and cough accompanied by a hearty dose of “Oh, poor widdle me,” I’ve taken the day off from posting but I intend to get back in tomorrow (Wednesday) on the promised topic of Getting Ready for Love that I mentioned yesterday. While I’ve been tending to my scratchy [...]

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