Well, you guys can thank Jaci (AKA Tels) that I'm still here. I woke this morning feeling completely numb. Nothing mattered, nothing had any meaning of any kind. As I went through my morning routine like a zombie, I came to the conclusion I had to quit being Dorothy, since I had lost my family and my daughter didnt want to be seen in public with me. I dont know how long this would have lasted before I would have done something drastic, but fortunately, Jaci was online, and agreed to phone me.

a couple going through a transition

http://www.jeffprobst.com/posts/2282_myths_and_truths_about_...

Should I transfer Gildi and T1 to this site? In other news I am rebuilding My name is UGLY into a different direction. Thank you for you patience and suggestions.

I feel like a tissue, I was used to further someone else's enjoyment and thrown laway because I was worthless.

Hello all...

Trying to post chapter 10 and I get validation error when I try to preview and have no clue as to why. Search pulls up nothing.

Help!

That's a wrap folks. Part two is going through a second edit and should post tomorrow sometime. This concludes all writing on Angel Season One, and now it's time for a little break. This is a stellar personal achievement of mine, one I am very proud of considering my past dislike for writing. In the seven months I have been writing, I have finished with a word count just over 199k. Feels great to see something through, from start to finish.

For the first time in my life I am part of a couple for Easter, took a while, but I'm not complaining. This has been a good month, good year so far, so I don't want to sound whiny and lose it all. Hehehe.

I got an Easter Basket and a stuffed animal. I made an Easter Basket too, I packed it very much full.

I tried this blog before, it was funnier. But I wanted to share the card I gave my bf

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Hi folks Just seeing if anyone is interest in me continuing Carla's journey, I have transitioned and am legally a woman and will start writing again Hugs Carla Bay.

Hey, everybody! My church liked my poem so much, they published a link to it. Its on the Affirm! McDougall page on facebook. It would be awesome if some of my friends would go and like their page ...

here is a link:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Affirm-McDougall-Edmonton/276...

Hi!

Was that a right or a left on Oak Street, honey?

This wasn't me BTW

Hi Everyone,

Just got back from business trip to.... well, almost everywhere.
Twenty of us in the group and we must have walked through fifty or sixty miles of factories.

Just got back from watching the movie "The Host". Its an awesome movie, I can really recommend it. Most days, I dont feel like I'm like Melanie the human female, nor like Jared, her love, but like Wanderer, a stranger in a strange land, wondering if there is any place she can really belong ....

I've just popped a book onto Kindle that I have been working on for ages... I'm clearing the backlog slowly.

I am sad. Not desperately so. But sad none the less.

There is an interesting Article in my local paper, the Broward County Sun_Sentinel regarding a web-based Transgender oriented radio show. Here is the Article title and a link to the article.

I'm supposed to be working on a paper for school about the evolution of RISC, pipelining, cache and virtual memory for my Computer Architecture course. Instead, I'm semi-crossposting the following from my main blog because I realize it's been a while since I wrote here, and the paper is boring; I'm a software girl, hardware gets in the way :P. Here's the post, and I'll go back to pretending to write this paper now. :)

well, not a good night last night. Any night that ends with me being carted off on a stretcher has to be considered a pretty bad one, and that was the case last night. I popped my shoulder out, and they ended up taking me to the hospital to get it looked at. I got off lucky, no serious damage, but I'm off work tonight, and on modified duties for a while thereafter.

On the other hand, one of my supervisors, upon hearing a bit of my life story, described me as being tremendously together, considering my past. So there is that, I suppose .....

On this journey there can be several signs of progress. In the past year I've had plenty of them. I started counseling roughly a year ago, got on hormones, came out, somewhat transitioned to full time, started electrolysis.

Those are all good things. There is also external progress. Longer hair, more feminine features, doing work on the voice, learning to walk and carry oneself. Also very good things.

Its my daughter's birthday today. She turns 13!

I have a transman in Buffalo who is at his wits end. He is a friend and has been run around by Social Services and every other agency he's tried to go to for help. I need a therapist who can help. You can PM me here at Top Shelf. He has no insurance and barely enough money to get by each month... barely.

This is someone I've known since his birth, the child of one of my best friends who can't help either because he's in Japan and struggling to get by there.

Please, I am begging. Someone point me to someone who can help.

Does anyone here play GW2, if so, Darkkitten, Zoe, Piper and I are trying to start a guild.

So, I love to write, but you all knew that. Some stuff I write seems to go over well. Some fails to go over at all.

That's life though.

Things are going really well and I am still plugging away at my academic/religious work "The Transsexual at the Cross: Disproving the myth that transsexuality is wrong" It isn't that long, but very intense on research and logic, therefore also very draining. I have to decide a lot of important factors.

Well I have finally gotten the next chapter of 'A Boy and His Dog' done. It only took me two months. Bet y'all thought I had given up, didn't ya?

Take a look:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/09/transgender-time-la...

Hugs to all,
Erin

I just posted my first story here last week, and figured it would be nice to introduce myself. I've been lurking here for a few years, and enjoying some truly excellent stories - thank you all very much. I'd recently changed jobs, and the new position is much less demanding than what I'd done previously (pays more, though ;) The upshot of which is that I've been getting bored, so decided to try my hand at writing, thus my first story.

A Generous Baker’s Dozen: Writing Guides by Women (Mostly)

in no particular order

It's going to take a few days to get back on line.

Well, after church today, I was invited out for coffee with the pastor and a couple of the members of the church, and I got a chance to show them my poetry, and read to them "Dear God", and "A Psalm of Dorothy"

They were blown away.

A couple of them actually teared up.

They asked, begged, for me to send them links so they can have permanent copies, and to pass them on to some places they think would be interested in them.

Pretty neat, yes?

The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #52: A Simple Palm Sunday this year To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

Since we are twelve hours ahead of everyoe back home, I decided to wait until now to post this.

That's so I can greet everyone, and say Happy Palm Sunday!

Jennifer Jane Pope posted this extensive listing of Brit terms/slang a few years ago at Crystal's Storysite. I thought that if one has interest in the Hartlepool Dictionary, they might want to add this to their lexicon as well.

I haven't heard from Jenny in several years, and don't know if she is still writing or, in fact, if she is still among the living. We used to talk quite a bit in the chatroom at Storysite, but she went somewhat quiet owing to some business problems she was having and eventually she just stopped coming by the chat and sort of dropped out of sight.

Sorry. Accidentally posted an unproofed version. Today has been one of THOSE days. I'll try and post the corrected story tomorrow.
Grover

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/kate-bornstein-canc...

what a difference a night makes. the night before last I had missed a couple of things while working, and felt awful. Last night my supervisor complimented me on my work.

After a comment I received today on Motherland Part II. I am officially giving up writing. Why bother? What's the point? Slaving away for months on end, giving up a social life only to find out that I could have spared myself the heartache if I had just gone to bestessay.com and purchased pre-written essays from their large database of prewritten essays, term papers, research reports...wait, do they have a transgendered fiction section?

The following was posted as a comment on my episode of Angel, Motherland Part II. Anyone else get this?

///Most people will find

Just like it used to be... including stupid title and special quote.

I finally had to admit to myself I'm scared to go further in my transition. I was talking to Jaci, and I actually started crying when all this anxiety and fear of surgery came bubbling out of me, and even changing my name legally scares me. Be that as it may, since its not likely that the Blue Fairy isnt likely to come visit me and turn my bits into their female equalivants, I have only the two choices - go forward, or live with what I got. And I honestly dont know if I'm capable of option two ..

Ah, well.

Linky

The penultimate chapter of Whatever next is now up on Maddy's site.

Ever experienced this feeling?

I've been working on a story, and would love it if someone could take a peek and see if its missing anything. Volunteers?

Interesting opinion in New Mexico with wide spread state consequences:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/new-mexico-gay-marr...

shalimar