If you'd like to follow the saga of The Family Wren, check it out at my LiveJournal site. I've got pictures and stuff!

http://bree-ramsey314.livejournal.com/

For personal real life issues, like not being allowed access to my grandchildren, I cannot live full-time as a woman. However, I find relief in going for regular make-overs to a very professional lady on the Gold Coast of Queensland (isn't that an ironic name?) who does a great job of transforming me into a somewhat realistic semblance of a female. I have to say that I love myself after she has performed her magic upon me, even though I can only maintain the illusion for a relatively short time.

As I believe in (among other things) total honesty, I have to say, I love recognition.

No, that's not quite accurate. "Crave it like a drug" would be closer to the truth.

Even so, I find myself at a loss when I'm recognized for all the wrong reasons.

This past Tuesday, I and the fellow residents of the apartment complex in which I live took part in an annual trip that's become sort of our farewell to summer. (As summers in Wisconsin have a kind of "blink and you'll miss it" quality, we get our goodbyes in early).

I've been watching the show I Am Jazz. I wonder if Jazz reads TG stories. Perhaps from this site. The same question applies to Caitlyn Jenner. I wonder if they know about this site and have ever checked out stories?

A few obscure html tags that can be useful in stories and info posts. Checking to see if they work here.

Had to get a new pc as old one was getting persnickety. It will be September before I load word and other software on the new pc.

In the last couple of days, I've seen the *same* stories appear on the "Random Solo" several times.

Just now, for example Giddy Up Go - The Real Story by Carla Ann showed up when I refreshed the page. It showed up about 12 hours back as well. This is the 4th or 5th time I've had a story show up again. In the last 2-3 days.

Also, some authors seem to show up rather frequently. Though this may just be because they have a lot of stories here. :-)

Has anyone heared frim Shiraz lately? I was wondering if she was OK. Am having heavy Tammy and Heather Withdrawal simptoms!

So, if I have misused the term "Chelsea Tractor" in this blog I am sure that one of the UK citizens will be more than happy to correct me after a sound flogging.

So, I was on my way to Ilwaco, Washington to pilot my brother's boat whilst he caught Salmon, gutted them and packed them away. Perhaps he has finally understood.

Worked 11 plus hours today, too tired to write.

Angharad

Chapter Twenty Five is available for your reading pleasure,
Cheers,
Diana M. Howe, Moongoddess at Large

For anyone interested in how life and art can converge, I have put some photos up on my author Facebook page (SAA Calvert) of the wonderful Kathryn Tickell performing at the weekend. Tall and lean? Tick. Fiddle? Tick. Long hair now red swinging about as she plays? Oh, very much 'tick'!

The plan:

Sit down with my laptop, taking into account the sunlit balcony and flagons of tea, then prepare #48 for posting, #49 for final editing, #50 for filling out the story outlines into the first draft

The actuality:

Get dragged off to IKEA, buy furniture for the balcony a little less sizable than the bulky 12 year-old table we have been using, spend hours opening cardboard boxes and then screwing, banging and erecting.

So!

Was I:

- IKEAd?
- Flat-packed?
- Swedish ambushed?

Or is there a better verb for this?

I haven't been in a Clownfish mood lately. Partially because I have too many ideas on how I want to go forward and partially because its kinda boring me right now to write it. So I'm gonna take a break from it and try writing something else to get my mind back into writing it. I will finish it but until then I have something else that's been nagging at me for a while now.

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2015/08/10/Brashe...

By Elizabeth Miles / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Devin Browne doesn’t believe in halfway.

“Even if it’s just one kid, you have to have a policy to make sure that kid’s rights are respected and that kid is safe in school,” said Mr. Browne, a teacher at Pittsburgh Brashear High School and an adviser for the school’s Gay Straight Alliance.

I am so happy and very proud to announce that Forsythe has joined that other greats on Sapphire's Place!

Forsythe has become known for his great Age Regression stories, and we look forward to his new chapters of his exciting story " Away for the Summer ", with many more on the way!

You can read his work at his Featured Author page over on Sapphire's Place, and we hope that this is the start of lots of newer authors joining the greats already there!

Enjoy!
Sapphire

I bought a Panasonic Wet & Dry Epilator in Pink & White $106. I got it on deal dash.com for only $8.57. I can't wait. I have previously won 2 $10 gift cards on there for only a single penny each. I'm in some auctions to get Aava silverwear. it retails for $679.

Jessica Marie.

I seem to have put my self -- or my characters -- in a dilemma in a couple of the stories posted here.

A lead character is transformed into a female by a woman with vast magical powers. She has rather slutty sex. Then she's told by the woman who transformed her that she can try to act in a less slutty manner, but that such behavior has become part of her nature, and that she can never become a male again.

For a Chill Friday afternoons reading.
Cheers,
Diana M. Howe, Moongoddess at Large

As President Franklyn Roosevelt said, "The only thing to fear is fear, itself."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-kolakowski/the-courag...?

So, let us help each other when we fall down.

shalimar

It would appear that Crystal Hall is down again.
I have not been able to access it for several hours.

Home town isn't large enough to hide identities nor secrets. We knew which family was cheating on whom We knew whom was dating whom in Jr. High and High School. There was also the local gossip mill about the girls who spread and those who didn't and which boys were active.

That's been years back and personally, I tuned out then and never cared. Honestly, maybe I might but didn't have time. My parents owned a dairy farm. Seven days a week, every day started at 4:30 and quit at 9:00 every night if not nursing sick livestock or harvesting. Then the days got longer.

I have written about crossdressers so far because although I empathize with transgendered individuals and their experiences, I am not transgendered and I feel that any attempt to write from that perspective runs the risk of being patronizing and false. I'm certainly willing and able to write from a perspective other than my own but for some reason I see certain points of view as being difficult or impossible to approach.

Went to see Mission Impossible and didn't get home until too late to write. Film was very enjoyable hokum.

Jessi i hope things are coming along well.

I wrote this story about 5 years ago and it was my first attempt but then I wrote Atalanta's origin story which took well over a year to finish. Some things in this story had to be changed to fit what happened in that story. I wrote two versions one with Team Kimba and one with new characters and is the reason there are no dates listed; it is inferred.

I got me a new tablet, and when I brought up the Big Closet sight, low and behold, the Aphrodite add was at the top of the page, and it appeared almost instantly. I swear, I almost jumped because it really did look like they were going to "poke" me in the eye. It took me a good half and hour to stop laughing.

The last chapter has 3000 reads and no comments which is pretty sad. It is a well written "who done it" story. Charlotte Dickles is an exceptional "gotchu" writer in the style of, if one figures it out before the end they have to be psychic. When writers post stories on Big Closet, Fiction Mania or any of the freebie sites their only payment is gratification from the readers who leave comments. The numbers such as 3000 readers is nice but still just numbers.

Things are still way too busy with work and the heat plus family stuff including a fight with people over things with my brother who is now suffering from a stroke or something like it possibly rug related.

I'll try to get somethings up here and there but it's looking rough.

looking for another story don't know I saw it here . it a teen boy who going on the other side of the country to go to collage . to get away from his controlling mother. when he get there found that he was giving a room in the females dorm because his name could been for both so as he was unpacking his room mate came in he didn't know at the time he was in the wrong dorm. it went from there she help him out dressing up as a girl. things where good for him till his mother show up. come to find out the girl came from old money. I thing she starting giving him homes.

Georgio Armani

(born 11 July 1934) is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and went on to become one of the most successful designers in history accumulating a personal fortune worth over $8 billion. In an interview, Armani told Vanity Fair magazine "I have had women in my life. And sometimes men... to do this work, one must have a free mind."

So, can any of you on the other side of the American Pond tell me where in the UK the following number would be from? +44704578xxxx

We have one of my favorite authors having a Birthday today. It is Paula Dillon's Birthday today and want to wish her a safe and many healthy birthdays to come and keeps writing us many stories to in the near future too! Thanks! Richard

Well, here I am again, looking for a story.

It was about the parents of a young child, who they think may be trans, and they've decided to give the child the choice of wearing girl clothes or boy clothes.

It ends with the parents waiting to see what the child decides.

Anybody know what story I'm talking about?

Looking for a story about a disease attacking high school age teen boys transforming them to women, of course. Principle character undergoes change but nearly bleeds to death due to complication. Saved by doctor specializing in the disease.

Hi everyone.

As the first book is almost over (only 1 chapter left and 3 side stories), I've decided to spend some time making the map for Felicia's Second Life.

Hopefully with this, my readers can imagine the world easier. Please take note that there may be revisions to this map in the future, but this should give a rough idea of where things go.

Decided to check some Old stories on the Storysite and found that it is down with both mirrors. Does anyone have any idea if it will return?

Hi people,

I've been informed that our chat wasn't availabe from here. So I decided to reactivate an old site some people long ago maintened and make the mainroom available again.

Please go to http://narda.tor-der-traeume.de/index.php?action=chat You'll be logged in as guest but you can choose your own name by typing /nick .

Please have fun and thank your site admins. After all today is the annual Sysadmin Appreciation Day :)

If you look at the sponsor and cosponsors list in the Senate version you will see NO Republican sponsors:

The Senate version:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-114s1858is/html/BILLS-114...

House version:

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-114hr3185ih/html/BILLS-11...

An article about the bill:

had a pretty bad flashback at work last night, and slept like crap today.

Sighs ...

I saw a blog about the lull of stories during the summer , just a hint go to the series link at the top and check out some of the great series of the past by great authors . There is something for everybody
whateley
spell r us
the center
dark realms and other stories by E O F
morfs
bikini beach
comic retcon
Julie verse
little kids kamps
altered fates
ovid may need to go to sapphires place , use top other links
Andersonville may need to go to sapphires place , use top other links

The movie links in these two posts each return a 404 error (not found). Were the files lost in a server crash? Oh well…

well there we go, first chapter posted, after I managed to humiliate myself by posting the summary as the body. So yay me, making an idiot of myself. Anyways Monica Rose was a massive help in all of this and I can see myself relying on her quite heavily throughout all of this.

As you are all aware I have been snotty and snippy about discussing transgender issues in public, feeling that it is private full stop.

It feels like that in recent weeks I have been dragged kicking and screaming into very reluctant activism that feels frightening to me. Some of you will remember my recent blog on two Bible scriptures, and now somehow that is now plastered all over Facebook and elsewhere. I have opened my Facebook up to the public, and how long that will last is debateable. You are welcome to contribute.

Hello to any and all who read this blog and can give advice or direction. Due to a difficult and contrary ex-wife, my fiancee is unable to have contact with her 3 youngest children. It is going to come to a legal battle in the UK court system and we are both strapped for moneys to be able to consult a custody solicitor. Abby has not been allowed to speak to are contact her children in over 4 months and previous to that only by Skype once a month. She loves her children above all else!!

Hi all,

here is a little heads-up on developments.

The next (and final) part of the (my) Chivan tales will be posted in the next few days. Naturally, it stops at the start of the post-Chivan era, so if any of you want to pen some tales to fill in the two great missing swathes of time, then there will be plenty of scope - the time after the Chivans when the Empire came into being, the hangover of which gave rise to the different countries in Garia's time, and the different ruler's titles! Of course, there are also opportunities for many more tales set in Chivan times.

I've been interested in increasing my bust size for the longest time, but to no avail. I'm currently 18 as a 34 B or 34 C, depending on who manufactured the bra. I have a "scooping" breast shape, and it makes it kinda difficult to fill out most of my bras.
A while back, I tried breast enhancing pills, and they didn't do much whatsoever, and now I have started taking herbs for a bit. While I have seen a SLIGHT improvement, I still don't feel like I'm getting much from them ;(

A hot chapter for a scorching hot day,
Cheers,
Diana M. Howe, Moongoddess at Large

I am really worried about my mom.

She's panicking over having to move, she's not sleeping well, and has been very forgetful and doing stuff without thinking.

Yesterday I came across the stopper for the bathroom sink in the fridge, for no reason.

All prayers and good wishes are appreciated