Today is the first of three sad anniversaries for NASA. On this day in 1967 a flashfire during routine preflight testing of the Apollo 1 spacecraft took the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee.

Tomorrow, Jan. 28, is the 30th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle disaster.

And Feb. 1, is the 13th anniversary of the Colombia disaster.

Piper and I are back from our vacation in Florida. For me this means going from 65°F damp days to 65°F dry days but Piper has been dropped into the deep freeze of New Jersey. :(

We had fun. We're tired and we probably all have colds. I expect to do very little today and maybe not much more than that tomorrow. And Piper still has some personal stuff on her plate to take care of. So, please, continue to cut us some slack. :)

I live about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Over the weekend we had a bit of snow... the local paper claims 31 inches. Needless to say I was snowed in but fortunately never lost electric power. Physically, it was quite tough on me.

In 2000 I had a total right knee replacement. November 2104 I had a spinal laminectromy, and in December I had a total left knee replacement. Fortunately I have a snowblower but still spent 7 hours digging out. Needless to say my new knee wasn't too happy with me. No damage, just ache & fatigue.

Hello Big Closet,

Noticed this site for a while now. While I am more of a fan of the forced fem stuff, I do a have soft spot for regular crossdressing and tg stories. A while a go I did this illustration to Thomas Roberts forgotten "Bridesmaid for a Friend" story about a boy who is asked to be a bridesmaid for his lady friend's wedding. In the story he learns about himself and finds love. Her story is on Fictionmania.

There it is, Chapter 38. The epilogue. Thanks for your patience and your readership.
If anyone is interested, I have a glossary of terms and a character list available, just PM me wit an email address and i'll send the doc files to you.
It was a heck of a ride.
Cheers,
Diana M. Howe, Moongoddess at Large

So I was sitting in a local club in my normal Hijabi style with a blind woman from Ethiopia. We had come there to listen to the charming music of her country. The music was reminiscent of Ethiopia but not Ethiopian.

I've run across some articles that may be of interest to everybody. Apparently this last year saw a record number of murders of transgender people.

The Transgender Murder Crisis: Why Were There So Many Killings in 2015?

Well here we are, Book 14 in the Gaby saga is complete and now available in a single 300 plus page volume at both Kindle and Lulu sites. The eagle eyed amongst you will note a change of title for the volume, Gaby San didn't sit very well in either language or continuity so it will now be Gaby - The Girl.

Hi all,

now we have been stunned by Penny's brilliance, and pleased that there is at least one more chapter to come, I find myself in a very strange situation, in several ways.

However, the one of immediate importance is as follows:

Should I include the names etc etc from #139 in the Index?

If so, should it be in a different section?

It might be a HUGE spoiler to anyone coming late to this series!

Your opinions please as to whether I should update the index with all the names and ranks from #139.

Thanks in advance

Julia

We were visiting my husband's family in London. We decided to use public transport due to the fact that he hates to drive in London and I'm still not happy about driving on the wrong side of the road lol. It was while we were on the tube (subway) and Benjamin our youngest woke up. I was hoping to get to my in laws first we were about twenty minutes away. This meant that I had to discretely as possible breast feed him on the tube train. I was doing this pretty well until some guy started to object to it and he made me feel so bad and dirty about doing something natural.

You know how I've been saying I'm in pain and wish I could get a break from work?

Well, I should be a bit more careful in my wishes.

I got a serious dressing down from my boss last night, giving me the impression I'm on thin ice in terms of continuing to work there, and to say the least I'm pretty depressed about it.

You add pain and PTSD to my depression, and its not a good situation at the moment.

hugs and prayers appreciated.

Well my exams are over and now I'm just waiting on the points. Think I got everything but I won't know before the 29th.

Head 's cleared up a bit which is good and I spend Tuesday with my brother-in-law at the motor show in Brussels which also helped. And no, I didn't buy anything although I liked some of the light motorcycles a lot, BMW G310R anyone ;)

I have a really nasty migraine right now. I have chronic migraines, and I don't know what to read. I can't do any serious work or exercise like this.

Personally, when I'm in pain, I like something which gives me hope. I like when characters I can relate to come through things all right. Of course, different people have different personalities, motivations, and neurotypes. I am autistic, and sometimes have trouble relating to characters at the opposite end of the allistic spectrum.

For the second day in a row I'm in terrible pain.

Enough pain to go past "crying" and head toward "screaming " ...

Something I never anticipated would happen in my lifetime. Each year on Australia Day, January 26th, an 'Australian of the Year' is chosen from the eight State and Territory nominees. This year, Group Captain Cate McGregor, the highest ranking trans military officer in the world has been named the Queensland State "Australian of the Year".

Life for us has been a test of every thing my family holds dear and nearly dumped my family onto the street. Due to recent changes in Section 8 laws Our housing Voucher Was Close to being cancled .

The BBC TV Series 'Boy meets Girl' is to return for another series
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/entertainment-arts-35350351

Warning.
If you aren't interested in one C Jenner then don't scroll down that page.

I haven't used the program so you are on your own. I thought it might be a help to those who need graphics in their stories?
http://lp.fiverr.com/lp-fb-cartoonists-dis/?utm_source=twitt...

Cartoonize your picture!

Turn any picture into a custom cartoon
Your new handmade cartoon is just 3 clicks away!

As always, buyer beware. Again, I haven't done a review on the program or what they offer.

Book 2 of The Transit of Venus is drawing to a close and it seems that for many readers it signals the end of those subjects that draw them to BC. For those that are interested in the sailing, history and adventures I will be continuing but am unsure whether to post it 1-2,000 words at a time as I have been or when I complete the book. There is a danger that without the routine of posting to encourage me Book 3 might take a very long time.

The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #74: The Girl Who Had FFS, and the Bunny: Goodbye, Anne and Angel To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

I very infrequently visit the site anymore. There are many reasons why. But more than anything, it’s probably because I am not the same person I was before that relied on the site for more than just wanting to read stories. It is, perhaps, because of who I am and how I changed.

But more about that later, I think.

The reason I am posting this time is because I read Aunt Andrea’s New Year’s blogpost about Annette MacGregor. And that Aunt Andrea found her name in the “In Memoriam” box…

I looked, and, yes, her name, as well as Angel O’Hare’s name was there…

The next chapter of Mother's Child will be posted sometime tomorrow. I'm incorporating my editors' comments tonight, then one more look through it to make sure it's completely done and I will post it.

Waterdog

Well, got a frustrating situation going on. See, way back at the beginning of December, I booked the last week of January off, got that approved by my supervisor, and gave the sheet to the personal office.

And yet, my name is on the schedule for that week.

I talked to the store manager and my supervisor about this, and they asked me about pushing my time off because they are expecting a new maintenance person to be starting around that time, and they would prefer they not have to go solo right away, but rather have someone to show them the ropes.

Since I joined our BC family here.

Thanks for all the beautiful stories I have read.
Thanks for being there for each other.
Thank for having me around.

Hugs, Anne.

so, i've seen a lot of stories that focus on a protagonist doing something wrong (either real or perceived) and being punished by being made into a girl and liking it along the way and so on and so forth.

What I'm curious is are their any stories where the new girl's identity takes on a life of its own and those orchestrating this punishment quickly discover they don't like the person she's becoming?

So when Gary returns to Anmar he'll have an unspecified number of SDHC cards. Now, most of these won't be of immediate use but you can be sure that a specification of the interface will be available - and all those chips will act as a sure incentive to find out what's on them.

You can take it for granted that among the contents will be movies. An average movie can be from 1Gb to 5Gb depending on length and bitrate so a single chip will hold many. So, what exactly might he have taken?

Looking for a story about a teen boy that has refused to cut his hair. He ends up making a deal with his mom that if he can properly take care of his hair and keep it off his collar for the month/summer she will let him get a scooter he wants badly. This of course means he starts learning how to do updos from his mother's hair stylist. He is spotted by a couple of girls from school and it goes on from there.

What's the most effective way to post a story? Few posts with many chapters each? Or one chapter per post?

For those of you curious as to my inspiration for my current story. Here is the trailer for the film Beastly. It is a modern version of Beauty and the Beast as told from the "beast". Hope you enjoy. I will be working on the next parts today or tomorrow and should be up then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neo6W1f7hyY

Finally, it took forever but the result of the assessment November 7, 2014 for getting my srs came in today.
5 page form to fill out and send to the GRC in Montreal.

then they go over the medical information on it and decide if they will do the operation(s) and get back to me with a date.

One of the best British actors has lost his fight with cancer aged 69. He got a BAFTA for his Sheriff of Nottingham against Kevin Costner's Robin Hood, where acted the American off the screen. Most of you will know him as Professor Snape from the Harry Potter films, where he played a brooding dark character to perfection. My own favourite was Truly, madly Deeply, with Juliet Stevenson, which was where I first saw him and fancied him like mad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truly,_Madly,_Deeply

Well, I had a very rough night at work last night.

It started off with me finding out that I am scheduled for the last week of the month when I had asked for and been signed off on getting vacation for that time, so I was a little ticked off by that.

Then my boss basically accused me of deliberately skipped part of my job, not even considering the possibility that I had simply forgot.

This sent me into a depressive spiral, leaving me feeling worthless and like nothing matters.

I am ending Shadow with a extremely short chapter the week. I am doing this so I can get to work on the third book in the Tales Trilogy. Yes Ember and the gang are coming back. I will be taking a short break to write a few chapters before I start posting. So see you in February!

Kat H.

What do ribbons really mean?
They show about a time and place you have been.
They show deeds done.

That is the face they show to others.

They wont ever show the child never coming home.
They wont ever show the child never held again.
They wont show the light leaving some ones eyes.
They wont show the loss of having every thing you had destroyed.
They wont tell of the torment of dreams.
They wont tell of faces coming to you in your sleep.
They wont tell os the sounds and smells that send your mind to a far off place

Hi folks. My health has improved. My mind has cleared and is working again, (as well as it ever did) and I've been writing again. Chapter 12 of Mother's Child was sent last night to my editor's, so with any luck at all I should be able to post the next chapter with the next few days. I'm sorry for the delay.

Waterdog

Hi everyone out there!
Last night i came across a video from tg tales on youtube. The video was about a boy (SAM) changing into a girl then quite a feminine one with the name Nugirls-2, Teen Queen. The original video is Size em up with Lindsay felton. But who is the girl at the End? somebody pleeeeeeeaaaase help. The link is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfF9mhQQkx4

Dear all,

I logged into BC today for the first time in six months and I'm sorry I haven't been around - please don't believe any rumours you probably haven't heard. My muse has escaped me, I haven't written a word since last summer and have no sign of doing so in the next few days. The stories will be concluded but I can't give a timescale.

I'll check in a bit more often - I promise.

Shiraz

is of course here to stay for a while and rather than make plans for my writing we'll just have to see how it pans out.

My biggest problem, having a job and other interests, is time. If the muse is with me it still takes 3-4 hours to write a single Gaby chapter plus any research time which translates to a lot of keyboard time! I managed 4 chapters between Tuesday and today but only wrote on three days due to other stuff so you see the issue. Some days I just need to kick back and veg!

I''m going bazonkers here.

I'm looking for the story in which Aungdhadhail is killed. Through the Wikia I got the gist of why but no story was mentioned there. Please Help.

Jess

Anybody who has had a pet can understand how they can sneak into your heart, and become a part of the family.

Well, my daughter had to say goodbye to a member of her family today, and in honor of little Hanna, here is a little song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUeuODPofpo

This is the day I started HRT. :) It is now one year later and I am SOOOOOO Happy!!! :)

I caught up with an old schoolfriend on New Year's day. He's known about my transition, but he caught me a bit by surprise when he said that he'd bought my book and enjoyed reading it!

Once I get a chance, I WILL go to see him (he's a bit disabled and in a wheelchair) and sign it for him. He's never actually seen me as Catherine, but he's said, several times, that he has no problem with me becoming Catherine and looks forward to seeing me in person.

Just an FYI, I spent most the day doing a cleanout of bogus forums. It was a lot of tedious work to delete each one. There is no streamlined way to maintain them.

Thank you to everyone that's been reminding us it needed to get done, and sorry it took us so long to do it (we try and do it every couple months). We're trying to work out a way to stop it from getting so bad in the future, so please bear with us.

N-E-Ways, visit, post, enjoy! http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/forum

-Piper, Cat, Erin and the BigCloset Band.

A Lottery Dream

... about a gender confused boy who when turning 18 finds a rather domineering girl friend who quickly convinces him he should try being a woman, which she feels he is better suited. Her father is a tattoo artist and her mother is an MD who starts him quickly towards his friend's and his? goal. Did I miss something or is the story just wallowing towards incompletion. I don't remember the name or author. I'd like to catch up. Any ideas out there?

Portia

I went in for cataract surgery on my left eye yesterday. I was instructed to wear a button up shirt for the procedure. So wore my new pull up pants and a blue blouse with a square cut hem and long sleeves. Masculine enough that my wife is OK with me wearing it anywhere. A must because a guy from church was my ride to and from. However, while it may have the cut of a man's shirt, it has no breast pocket, buttons are on the distaff side and it has darts to accommodate my bustline. Inadvertently, i wore a pair of flats rather then my usual penny loafers. More on that in another blog.

I have been reading JulieO's Julieverse stories I think I've been able to find all of them, except

can anyone help?

This list was copied from the end of 'COEDS'

Well, I have had a productive day.

I got my laundry done, I have replacements coming for my health care card and my social insurance card coming, I got money out to pay for my share of the rent, I got a refill on my meds, and I treated myself to some cheese bread.

And now I'm working on the next chapter of "Mercy"

Not a bad day ...

Hi all,

I have been away for a couple of weeks and have now returned home (bliss - my own mattress again!).

What that means is that I have only this morning had time to update the Index entries for Penny's latest.

But those tasks are now done, so out there publicly the information is at the latest state.

Internally, I need to update the copyright year ranges etc etc etc etc

And to complete my next two episodes.

Happy New Year to you all.

Julia.