Hey everyone! I'm working on a MAU story that I want to take in a slightly different direction. In this case I have a question for you SF Fans out there in Big-Closet Land!

You can find this story with pictures at the following: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/exclusive/laura-jane-g...

Richard

I lost a good friend this morning due to pneumonia. This was a complication due to pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, and a myriad of other problems. I had known him for about 25 years, but we didn't really become good friends until about 12-15 years ago when we started working for the same state agency. We retired from there about a week apart. More recently, he would ride with me all over the State of Arkansas while I was doing Loss Control Surveys of various businesses. He had done this type of work for years, long before I ever got involved in it after retiring from the military.

I'd always considered Savedra to be one of the strongest tg characters modern fiction has produced. Not only is she thoroughly convincing, but her transness (come on Rich, you must be able to think of a better word than that!) isn't immediately obvious.

Clearly this reviewer, who as a trans woman is almost certainly more qualified than me to discuss these issues, has a different opinion. I'll make no comment other than to say it gave me plenty to think about.

http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?page_id=10825

Trying to distract myself last night, my mind stopped on the clothing designs for Galadriel and Arwen's costumes that Paula described in her excellent story - Fashion Star. Now, I haven't seen the movies so I don't have a clue what was designed for them but I have read the novels and I just couldn't picture the need for crinolines with the sort of outfits Tolkien described. So like anybody these days, I turned to Google for the answer.

After getting a letter from my psychiatrist last week I did a bigger step today:

After several years of living on the cusp, my mother suffered a major stroke Monday and passed away this morning. The next week or so is going to be rough. Service in Dallas followed by burial in SE Missouri. Please keep my family in your thoughts.

Best Of Elf is now up for your reading pleasure!

Sorry all, but I'll be offline for about 3 months. I'll be jotting down things for my stories and I'll have chapter 3 of Summer Girl, chapter 12 of Tarja and the first chapter of my new stories online by the 15th of August. Have a great summer...

Due to Agent Orange, A medication I take for Migraines and my vascular Disease and a myriad of medications I take which gives me problems with my short term memory and I have to stop writing. As much as I try there are days a sentence takes a long while to get out and then the thought of what I was writing about goes away. Not only that my blood sugar often gets low and interacts with my migraine medicine and I put the ditz back in to ditzy.

Well, today I had an awesome day. Queen Ruth (who is a reader here, for those who dont know her) happened to be in town, so we met at the mall talked for a couple of hours, walked around the mall and just before I was to leave, she went and bought me a crucifix.

She really helped me with my anxiety over the surgery too, so that was nice.

This morning I have been more calmly reading about certain diagnosisies, among them PTSD and BPD, because I have both. It is astonishing that while many of us think that it takes Military combat to get PTSD, the actual facts are that one can get it from a bad car accident, or an abusive traumatic childhood.

As far as BPD is concerned, this was a bitter pill to swallow, but it now seems much easier to deal with and I am now recognizing its effect in my life.

The Minnesota Senate passed a bill authorizing same-sex marriage today. The Minnesota House had passed the same bill Friday. Governor Mark Dayton has said that he will sign it in a ceremony tomorrow. This would make Minnesota the twelfth state to authorize same-sex marriage.

The new law will take effect August 1st.

Click here for news report.

I do intend to finish "Virginia in Bloom" and "Evolution," but life gets in the way.

I've just finished re-reading Renae's superb partial stories, 'After the Ashes' and 'First Among Fools' and thought I'd try to see if she's on BC these days. They are wonderful stories and I'm REALLY REALLY hoping that she will find the wherewithal to finish them one day!

If you have not read them I highly recommend them to you. I have to warn you that they ARE unfinished at present however and will probably leave you with withdrawal symptoms afterwards. lol

Blossom

First Among Fools