Gabycon is but a month away!

If you are planning on attending all or just part of the weekend please contact me by either pm here or email asap so I have some idea of numbers.

If anyone commented on my stories and I did not reply I want to apologize. Without boring anyone with my problems I will only say I was in a dark place for a few weeks and slipped up on replying. Now I do not know who I have responded to and who I have not.

If I did skip thanking you for commenting please know I apologize greatly. You words of encouragement mean the world to me and I was not ignoring anyone intentionally. I beg your forgiveness.

Thank you,
Stef

This is more for curiosity than anything else. Has anyone heard anything from Aardvark in a while? I know I haven't been doing much around the site for a while other than lurking but I haven't seen Doug in a long time or even heard from him. Just wondering if anyone has heard from him and how he's doing. Thanks.

Jerrie

Kylie sent me this beautiful poem, and gave me permission to share it:

When i think of you, I smile
Because you are so wonderful

When I think of you, I laugh
Because you are so amusing

Hi all, I wanted to start off by saying I'm sorry to everyone who expected to see more That's How the System Works last year. I wanted to let everyone know what I have been up to regarding my writing. One of the problems I have encountered often as I write the story is that new ideas often pop into my head, ones I want to incorporate into the story, but may not always mesh properly with the existing cannon of the story.

It will be another week before I post the next chapter. Last Monday was my birthday, I visited Hollywood studios and the magic kingdom.

Another sad attack and right by a police station too.

http://news.yahoo.com/transgender-woman-dies-beating-front-n...

Dam!

The title of this blog is one of the thoughts I had as Holly Hart went into the crematorium yesterday. The other was the Nazi ovens in Poland. I was there at the time and the event was harder than I thought it would be.

Another note I sent all the comments and private messages that I saw to Holly's sisters. I thought they would appreciate the sentiment.

I am also thinking that there should be a writing contest to honor Holly, as she was an author and major editor.

Shelly

During the debate of the California law allowing trans kids to choose which bathroom to use, a Christian leader talked about how all these "sexually confused" kids were more than likely victims of sexual abuse.

And ever since, I've been struggling with coming up with the proper response to this.

I want to write an essay about being trans and being a survivor of sexual abuse, but I doubt I have the needed skills to write an objective essay, especially when I seem like the perfect example of what they're talking about.

Ah, well.

I'm still toiling away at my new novel. It's been so long since I posted a story that I compensate by doing blogs. The new novel is so worth it though.

I seem to have acquired a "voice" whose sole purpose is to make me as girly and feminine as possible. For example, when I am at work, and I see some item that's been painted pink, I end up having an argument like this:

"We should get that. Its pink!"

"Cant afford it."

"But its pink!"

"I have one just like it."

"Not in pink!"

"Its not even something I can use!"

"But its pink!"

And on and on it goes.

I blame Jaci for this voice. Its gotta be her fault ....

If anyone is interested, knowing there are a number here who like worldbuilding = Elsbeth

I really hope I'm not annoying people with these updates or come across as if I am gloating because that is not my intent at all. I hope by sharing my success and excitement it will encourage others to follow their own dreams and press on.

Earlier tonight I hit my: Drum roll please

First, if this law was in California in 1944, maybe Holly Hart wouldn't have had a radical hysterectomy at the age of ONE DAY: