to come down on Prop8, I thought some of you might like a look at The Big Picture.

I ran across this article yesterday and just had to share it.

http://childrenshospitalblog.org/father-of-a-transgender-twe...

What an incredibly lucky little girl, and what a great dad!

I posted Images 6 tonight and it's doing really well.
But...
I wrote in it a scene that relays or tries to the character Jenna going back to God and reviving her faith.The character Jenna grew up within a mixed faith home with a very Catholic Quebec born and raised mother and a step-father who was a deeply conservative Christian. This is just part of the character and part of trying to get the flavor of her down in a way that I feel fits her.

Bob had to turn off the PDF module because of too many users, apparently. It slows things down and things were backing up. Going to investigate and it may be turned back on.

Hugs,
Erin

Hello again everybody! I haven't been too vocal lately; as in no comments to speak of at all, even in response to comments on my own stories like I usually do. It's been a pretty busy summer, and I was kind of tense for a while do to both that and anticipation of my sister's wedding.

I am so sorry, but it had to be that way. I can't tell it any way but straight. I don't want you to hurt more later than what I hurt you now. There is no sugar coating it. We think what we want to think, hear what we want to hear, and do what we want to do. I can not take the responsibility for your life.

Yep, I've got cabin fever and I'm falling to bits here.
Can't drive, can't cycle, can't do much writing, sore shoulder still a distraction so it's difficult to concentrate, daren't moan or she'll come down on me like a ton of, -.
All I can do is go for a walk and watch bloody telly, oh and eat. God, I'm gonna weigh a tonne by the time I get on my bike.

Heeeee-eeeeeeeeelp.

Any suggestions as to how to stay sane?

No, - on second thoughts don't answer that. I was never much 'sane' in the first place!

Bev.

Anyone fancy a beach hut with cold running water and a kettle?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10837742

It sounds like a bargain!

Hugs
Sue

I try to keep the cycling element of Bike as fairly realistic as I can, and although Cathy gets into scrapes, she's so far pulled through. Cycling is not without risk, even for the experienced rider.

One of our club, a very fit 76 yr old, died on Sunday morning doing a time trial when he ran into the back of an abandoned car - always a risk when you're racing, especially time trialling. It's just difficult to believe I was talking to him the day before.

The only consolation is that he died doing something he loved, maybe he's the lucky one.

Angharad

I have mentioned several times that I would never post a story until the entire story was completed. Well, I was in error. Several readers felt that Jim and Margot Campion's punishment was far too severe. Hey, they did steal more than $50,000,000, and cheated at golf. Some also felt that they shouldn't have lost their personalities. I'm not sure that fact was ever established. Well, I began to wonder what actually happened to them. We had left them under the very loving care of Bob and Hilda Brewer. What could possibly go wrong?

http://kuvaton.com/browse/14869/blond_vs_brunet.jpg

Found this link while bored outta my tree surfing links from IRC.

nobody

Hello friends at BC

I posted the next two chapters. These are short chapters and go together. These two events are happening at the same time before the ceremonies begin. This will help tie up the loose ends from the previous chapters. Then the sequence will be straight forward.

Enjoy the ride and the adventure.
Rachel

Sadly, I must inform everyone that my wife Nancy, ended her 1 year, 7 mo struggle with lung cancer this morning, 31 Jul 2010 at 0730 hrs. She passed peacefully in her sleep which is all I hoped for. Her goal after being informed of having the cancer was to live long enough to see our youngest grandson, Deacon (age 3 on 1 Aug 10); get on his first school bus, because she had put all our other grandchildren on theirs.

Well, out of organised religion…

OK, there's been a lot of serious blogs recently (including Erin pleading for the umpteenth time for us to try and remember to be civil with each other instead of ripping off each other's heads!), so I thought I'd quickly grab a few amusing songs from my YouTube favourites...

Righteo, here we go. Let's kick off with a publicity stunt / fake flashmob by the Swingle Singers.

A couple of medical professionals describing their new wonder drug: Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin.

The wife and older daughter spent longer out running errands today than I expected... And, to my surprise, when they came in...

It means treat everyone like a friend. If you don't feel you can make a public post that says what you want to say without being unfriendly, then don't make the post public. Friends talk over problems in private.

Hugs to all,
Erin

She brings a certain something extra to her portfolio.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/lea-givenchys-transgende...

http://www.styleite.com/media/lea-t-naked-photos/

Angharad.

Don't bring an attack on a BC author from another site over here and expect to be allowed to rant on my time. And especially don't do it as visitor. This will get your IP address banned from the site and just did, so you ain't the one seeing this unless you login using a different computer. There can't be a clearer signal that one intends to act as a troll.

No trolls allowed except as characters in stories. This meant you, but you don't know it, trollass.

Hugs to everyone else,
Erin

SOS. Same attitude that developed among soldiers in Vietnam, with reason.

http://photoblog.msnbc.com/cop-nolen-photoblog

By Evan Vucci, Photojournalist, AP

Here in southern Afghanistan, I often ask the soldiers what they think about the things folks are saying about the war back home. The question is usually phrased as a simple, "Does the American public get it?"

im a wazzak. no capitals only got one hand. please excuse awful punctuation and stuff.
brolen collar bone. (clavicle to those clever buggers.).
out on my bike this morning. approached pedestrian on the cycle trail at glyncorrwg.

Oddly enough we got a similar phone call a few years ago.

As an author I like to see how many reads a story is getting, call it vanity or something else, but it's important to me and I'm sure to other authors. Now to the point, I see abisimal stories that don't make sense but have all the buzz words, heels, breasts, hormones, implants, the operation and they get reads like crazy. Then you have an absolutely wonderful story that doesn't fall under those precious words left to dangle in the wind. Nancy Cole's While the Band Played Waltzing Matilda is a good example.

So I saw my partner off at the station last Wednesday. Late that evening she phoned to say that when she arrived at the hospital they had cancelled the operation and that they had phoned to tell her! Er, no.

I just happened to hit FM history to see what was posted today in the past and the first one up about floored me. Today is the 10th anniversary of Babs Yeruncle posting her sci-fi space opera Planetary Agents 1. It is hard to believe this oldie but so goodie is 10 now. Now if we could just convince her to finish Agents 3.

I have been a tad busy the last couple of weeks and hadn't checks sites like I normally do. Imagine my surprise when I hit one of my old favorites and found not one, but three new stories by Brandy D. Yes! check them here if interested. http://www.tigger-n-brandy.net/brandy-index.html

I-Dosing: How teenagers are getting 'digitally high' from music they download from internet.

At last, vindication for those of us who suspect the Daily Wail's science reporting isn't all it's cracked up to be.

They've published a story about a phenomenon called I-Dosing, which they claim to be A Bad Thing ^TM.

Sushi receiving late night orders from 'The Master'

There. That's chapter 19 of The Sissy Farm posted.

There may be a slight delay posting part 4 of 'The Boss'. I would have posted on Tuesday 27th July, but will be in hospital on that day for routine tests.

Susie

well, tomorrow is d day. in this case "d" is for dorothy. I am meeting the other members of the TS group at the restaurant for the first time. worried, scared, nervous, those are only a few of the emotions i am dealing with

I was sitting around in a drunken stupor and wondered what your favorite movie was? I read a favorite summer picture survey and wondered what our favorite might be? I thought of mine and chose to list them, fiction and non-fiction My fiction favorites are, let me hear the drums please, Bridge on the River Kwai, Antie Mame, The Great Escape, The Worlds Fastest Indian, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Around The World In Eighty Days, and of course Star War's episode four. Non-fiction has to be On Any Sunday. Well, how about yours? Arecee

Apparently so.

Member for:
1 year 17 hours

During that time I've commented on oodles of stories, written 13 short tales and have a fourteenth under construction (plus an abandoned story which I might upload somewhere so others can hijack), and somehow came up with the daft idea of producing background resources for this site's very own soap opera... (not to mention persuading a certain Kiwi to help out!)

I have been doing battle the last two days trying to get two of my meds refilled. I have had to deal with the nurse for my Endocrinologist. I have been so frustrated with her I could scream! She interrogated me up one side and down the other about why I needed the refills. I have dubbed her "Nurse Nightmare, because it is a real nightmare dealing with her . I told her that my prescriptions were expired. She kept arguing that I couldn't be out of refills. The doctor put five refills on there, but there is no way that I use five vials in a year.

Well, my cluster headaches are back. It is like a migrane, but centered on my right eye and going down to my mouth. I am convinced that the stress of my situation is playing a role in this pain. Which makes it more imperitive that I figure out a way to get some hope, and fast.

Here is the fourth chapter. I am also going to post a separate file for the List of Characters. It will have all of the characters for Books 1 and 2. There will be some chapters that I will post that will not have the characters listed with the chapter. That list will get longer and longer if I do that. The main list will be modified as needed.

I'm taking a couple of days away from BCTS so the next chapter of Robin will be slightly delayed.

I apologize for the delay.

~Zoe

Haven't been on BC much lately, too much turmoil in my life. Lost my job and have been preparing to move so I might get one doing basic factory labor for less than half what I'm used to making I don't mind working, but my health issues have been none too stable for the last year, and this isn't going to help. And the move also means closing up my house (MY house, bought and paid for!) and moving in with my brother, so I'm losing a significant amount of personal freedom as well.

So it has been 41 years on this earth as of 2:30 this 22nd day of July. I am most thankful for my Family though there is just the 4 of us, as it has been Since Davids Parents Passed 4 years ago. I am happy my dear Daughters have each other and Hope to be a Grandmother in about 10 years, I know it will probably come much sooner than that. After all One is 17. I have been fortunate to make so many friends in so many different places.

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This may be of importance to T folk because some of us want to know what is in the public record or are trying to locate loved ones.

Last night I happened upon what I thought was a legitimate service called, "Intelius" for looking at public records, first to see what is in mine and second to hopefully locate two of my children. Much to my surprise, the actual sign up was rife with loops and diversions to entice me to sign up for even more. I thought I was spending $39.95 but by the time I was finished, I paid $69.99.

No I'm not going to go through that old one about how you give a cat a pill, but for reference, you can find it here.

Instead, I'm going to tell you how yesterday I risked life and limbs (I have the gouges, scratches, lacerations and other abrasions to show for it) to take our cat, Sammo, to the vet.

I have an 80 page manuscript that I just found. It is in Typewritten print. Perhaps I did it on a Typewriter, so that would say before 82'. I also had a scanner that I could scan it in with but I have never liked the program that puts it into a file on the computer.

Has the technology improved so I could go to Kinkos or somewhere and get it done or am I going to intput it myself?

Thanks

Khaduuj

A major milestone passed today... And, I felt the need to share it with my friends.

Interesting article spotted in this week's New Scientist:

"IN 2010 we need to ask afresh just how deep the rabbit hole goes when it comes to gender politics - and how far we are from digging ourselves out. Our beliefs about differences between the sexes have an impact on society vastly out of proportion to the magnitude of those differences, from female scientists defending their mathematical and technical expertise to boys accused of lacking the communication and emotional skills to succeed at school."

New Scientist: Opinion | Out with pink and blue: Don't foster the gender divide | 19th July 2010

It would be so nice to get the general UK opinion of this movie supposedly about an American girl in an English Boarding School.

Khaduuj

I posted Chapter 3. The pace will definitely pick up now. Enjoy the ideas I suggested here. There are more to discover along the way.

Rachel

well, I feel like a coward. I went to my sunday meeting at the pride center, and it was good. But on my way home, I wanted to stop and get gas for my car, and I couldnt do it. I couldnt be seen as dorothy. Sigh.