got some encouraging news from my doctors visit yesterday

My weight is now 292 lbs, and my BP was 100/68.

Both of those are massive improvements for me.

She seems to have become very tolerant of how I dress when I go out. First it was when we were going to the doctor for her appointments. My attire was seriously on the feminine end of androgynous even with lipstick and mascara. She twice allowed it where she used to make a fuss if I wore knee high nylons instead of socks.

My psychiatrist informed me a month ago she was telling everyone to stay away from passports, driver's licenses, virtually all government documents and not renew them at this time.

Trans star of hit HBO series says renewed passport now says male after Trump order

Trump signed executive order narrowing federal government definition of the sexes
Hunter Schafer, a transgender actor and star of the HBO series "Euphoria," revealed that her new passport was issued with a male gender marker because of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.

I honestly don't know what impression I make here. I suspect most of you see me as some combination of Happy Fun Time Huggle Giver, and Woman Who Constantly Sabotages Her Own Life and Then Whines About It.

Well, sadly, I have to do the later, and 2025 is not going well for me.

I have had several issues with my car, including repairing the undercarriage, replacing the battery, and most recently, replacing the tires, and now it seems I am not done yet, as my check engine light turned on today.

Good old Al wrote a song to help those who need to ‘up’ their writing game.

https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?si=s637RNLhPbxcpxCc

Enjoy.

with love,

HER

Once in a while, I bare my soul; more often my soles bear me.

Let us cut the bullshit.

There have been repeated reports in the past of Amazon Kindle stealing money from consumers. As well as Kindle being a proprietary and closed standard for content delivery. The underlying issue is not only restricted to Amazon Kindle, but any and all cloud-based streaming content providers.

Who controls the content that is saved on the cloud? Is it the owner of the content? Or is it the owner of the infrastructure?

From A Veteran Editor of 'Stars And Stripes'

Regulars here will know I’m not a fan of BS and half-measures. Don’t piss on my boots, and tell me it’s raining …

This has been a horrible month for anybody who still cares about America, her place in the world, and her duty to her people.

We are under attack by Donald Trump’s soulless, gutless Republican Party, and the United States of America will never be the same again.

There is nothing to worry about with Trump and Republicans in charge

-- The State Department is now not even issuing renewing passports to transgender people.

--The National Park Service (NPS), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior changed the information about Stonewall on their website. They erased four of the leaders of the riots who were transwomen and changed the phrase LGBTQ rights to LGB rights.

-- As of February 7, 2025, transgender individuals were banned from enlisting and having publicly funded gender-affirming surgeries in the U.S. military.

I just ran across this 13 minute video on road safety in Europe (and more specifically the UK) versus the development of electric vehicles at NEWS: UK Bans Cybertruck - 5 Fatal Design Flaws Tesla Can't Fix.

This is more for those techno-geeks and EV geeks out there. So you might like this FYI,

Great news everyone!

To try and help us move away from reliance on Amazon so much, we're going to be starting some experiments on the Patreon with making books and/or stories available to purchase there.

Right now we have two options available in this way: the complete collection of Quillian, and my own story Fresh Start. We'll be working on moving more work over there in the future.

Between cvs and humana I am unable to obtain my jardiance medicine. It's too expensive: $500 for a 30 day supply. Never mind the fact that I need it for my heart. I have exhausted all avenues. It would take Elon Musk or Trump to intervene to make it possible. So, I will not go that route, okay? It doesn't look like I can get it anymore. So, this is the beginning of my end. The protection that it gave me will wear off me this morning, so I am prepared for a heart attack and going. I made it this far huh? Thank you all for allowing me to have been here at the end.

The events of the recent USA administration fall into 2 basic categories. #1 Information overload. With the Tsunami of strange, weird, unsettling and scary actions taken by the new administration the news media, other politicians and the general public are overwhelmed by crazy and can not seem to decide which action to tackle first, so they are caught in stasis. That way the administration keeps doing whatever they want.

If you are willing to see how Europeans view the current political developments in the United States of America, you might want to the following broadcast posts on YouTube. Be warned that these could be triggering to you, and therefor a risk to your personal mental health. So viewer discretion is advised.

Happy Valentine's Day.

I just posted a short story for Valentine's Day, titled, "The Valentine's Day Gift" It comes in at just over 8100 words.

Thanks to my beta reader. She assures me that I was successful in giving the story the look and feel I was after.

I am looking for a story, I began rereading Anistasia Allread's story "Camp Kumoni"

I remember another story where the MC signs their-self up for a summer camp my pulling a fast one on parents, think it may be Guide\Girl Scout camp

can't remember but there may have been a leather working workshop

please help

even if it is a little chilly!

My muse has given me a very odd little story.

Expect it soon . . .

Yesterday, when I'd gone grocery shopping, I passed a few Girl Scouts selling cookies. That started a kernel of an idea rolling around my head. I woke up early this morning with a first scene in my head, which is inserted below.

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The latest installment of the Light saga is now posted complete! Thus for anyone waiting to binge-read the new novel in its entirety, it's waiting for you! Specifically here: Hope's Light

While taking a break from a story I am working on I saw a photo of a 2025 Corvette Z..... something. 1000 hp, twin turbo V8, claims very good mileage if the driver keeps the foot out. 233 mph. Performance suspiciously like an Audi R8 which they stopped making. The driver of this beast MUST be a very masculine woman or perhaps TG ????

This must be edited into the new story !!!!

Gwen Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5JQbJEolS0

Good evening everybody. I hope this evening finds you all in good spirits, for those suffering, afraid, or in pain, please know I'm praying for you. And that by simply living you are pushing back. Now, I owe everybody here an apology, I've not been as active as I want to be, I've not been leaving comments as I should. For that I'm humble sorry and I ask your forgiveness.

Just reading in the News on KOIN, a CBS affiliated station. It seems that some Oregon politicians are in favor of banning MtF transgender athletes. In this case, I hope that common sense stops laying facedown in a mud filled fox hole.

I'm not a Medical Professional. Over the years my experience has me believing that there could be a workable solution. If a prepubescent male loses the testosterone from their Gonads (Balls) and gets on a suitable source of Estrogen, then perhaps he, now she, could compete in girls sports.

Bit of a tough day today, as my car battery died, and with the extreme cold I had to wait quite a while for a tow.

But honestly, one of the worst parts of the whole experience was constantly being called sir on the phone with the towing company, despite my attempts to correct the lady.

I know it's not as big a thing as what many people, including people I love, are going through, but it still hurt

An ending for a new beginning?

Dawning
by Erin Halfelven
A BCTS Story Challenge

I have finally finished posting all of her already written stories. When she is ready, Clara will post her newest stories up :)

I thank her for the privilege of having been allowed to host them here. And I hope Clara will post as soon as she can.

Thank You Clara.

Sephrena

The Protagonist does online investigations for a fee until "they" graduate college. They found a remote cabin in the Rockies and stayed there to do the investigations. They go into town for groceries at times and eventually go to a family gathering where "gramps" offers him the ranch.

I hope this is enough

Ahabidah, Gwen Brown

Well... I guess Holly's gone and done it, as per usual!

'Fake it Till You Make It' has been wildly more popular than I ever expected, and for that I am eternally grateful to all of you who have read and commented on it. As we head toward the final chapter of the book, I have some news... and thoughts I would like to share with you, my wonderful readers.

Truthfully, it's disturbingly gory. So much so that I couldn't continue it until now. If it took me over two months to be able to handle one image, I'm not sure about subjecting the unwary to it. How should I tag something like this, maybe a warning at the beginning and a spacer after that or should I just hold on to it. It shares the first several paragraphs with the lynching tree to let you see where the gore is coming from.

Thanks to some of my mental health issues playing up, I havent been able to work on my stories.

So it might be a while before you guys see anything new from me.

Sorry.

As a card carrying member of the ACLU, I regularly get communications from them. Yes, many of those are asking for money to support their programs, but many others are asking for me to sign a petition or to reach out to my Congressman or Senator. They also send out communications regularly to help keep members informed.

I received this one today………

https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/trumps-executive-orde...

I've just posted the final post of "My Summer in Pantyhose" It's the epilogue. It's short because, summer is over and the title of the series limits the story to that summer.

Is this the end of Jamie’s story? Are there no more adventures for Jamie, Tabitha and Mike? And what about Megan?

Obviously not. Jamie and co. have their whole life ahead of them. Where will Jamie end up; will he and Tabitha become a lifetime couple; what will Megan do after? Dear readers. Turn your imaginations loose and fill in the blanks that are the rest of their lives.

And in between being disgusted to the point of wanting to throw up, and being outraged to the point of wanting to throw something at the TV, I found this article online. As the author stated, his list by no means contains all of the possible ways to fight back against the atrocities the Trump administration is inflicting on this country, but it is a good place to start - and if we don’t fight back, we might as well just roll over and die.

https://apple.news/AhmwcjeGdRvO79gB7zBSjOA

So i possibly won't get to post new stuff for about ten days.

Here's another new one from me.

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/105374/cheertastic

Also in case anyone was wondering, The Season of the Witch is back up on site for a little bit :)

https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/33939/season-witch

My Summer in Pantyhose Chapter 43 is up. This it penultimate posting in this series. This Thursday, I'll post the epilogue.

Hope you have all enjoyed my efforts to finish Jeremy's fine work.