"All you need is love", I've heard. Not quite, at least for me. I learned tonight the value of having one true friend: just one, who's there to remind you you're not alone, and to anchor you in reality.

Well, The above is a statement I never thought I would say again. I met somebody on a chat room, and she helped me get through the worst of my flashbacks. She knows my gender status, and it doesnt faze her a bit. She is also constantly complimenting me, calling me beautiful, and making me feel special and wanted in a way I have never felt before. I am being careful, trying to take my time and get to know her better, but also trying to enjoy the moment at the same time. We will have to see how it goes.

Okay, so enough have dropped subtle hints about the whereabouts of chapter five and I can quite happily advise you all that it's at the cleaners.

Yes, it's actually gone for editing, proofing and to be given the Gabmeister seal of approval.

Not long now...

I wasn't going to write another chapter in Father Just Doesn't Get It, but with all the nice comments I got, I decided to write another chapter. If anybody wants to read more about Joanne's journey into girlhood, just say so in your comments at the end of the story.

Hugs,
Barbara

Chapter number 10 is almost complete. Got an idea where to go with 11. It's fairly predictable but sweet and sentimental.

See you soon.

Beverly.

This Guardian article highlights an aspect of the Malawi case I hadn't appreciated.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/22/malawian...

Robi

Hey Everyone I have a new story up at StarDust. Career Day: The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round. It's a lot different from Once A Hero. It's about time travel, Alien machines, racists, and the joys of getting your hair done. Story length is around 46 thousand words, and will be posted in more or less three even parts. If I get part 2 that I'm currently working finished, I'll simply add it onto the end doubling the length.

http://stardustr.us/content/career-day-wheels-bus-goes-round...

Enjoy!

hugs!

Grover

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/rd/3727854/ns/health-more_health_ne...

It seems there is some kind of error in the html of my latest posting, The Chronicles of Mana - 2 - Deja Vu. Erin moved the break code to the very beginning to keep it from screwing up the front page. So on the front page it shows the name and an empty box. If you click on it, though, the story is there. Some browsers may have trouble with it, but it is there.

My mother... was on a vacation while my grand father drove to North Dakota... but then while driving on a mountain he had a heart attack... and they drove off a cliff. The car was stuck so far down they had to be air lifted to the hospital. My mother is in intensive care... I'm hoping to God she'll be okay. I'm so scared for her... so scared mew *sobs*

It came and went, no big deal - like most birthdays after thirty. I've spent somewhere between one and two thousand hours writing it, over a period of about two years and ten months. Now I have to decide what I want to do with it.

There are loads of loose ends to tie up, which is just like a real person who dies, or like we all have everyday, so there are always plenty of plot lines to follow or I could end it where it is - if the latter, as it's written in the first person, there would be no more, the narrator is no more. I know I tried that before and popular demand resurrected her.

Apparently it's the 30th anniversary of the release of Pacman today.

So of course Google has to celebrate with one of its famous doodles. Although there's more to this one than meets the eye. Apart the [I'm Feeling Lucky!] button being replaced with [Insert coin].

This one's written in Javascript (so those with NoScript installed may already have spotted something's up!) and is a playable version of the game - apparently all the way up to level 255...

Hi y'all. (God I'll have to stop the 'Georgian' accent.) Sounding like Jimmy Carter.

Well, chapter 8 of Martina's story is writ.
9 is also complete and I'm half way through 10.

Not sure where the story will take me after that.

Happy reading!

OXOXOX

Bev.

I need a translation again. My assassin is in Brussels so I need another translation, either in Flemish or French. A police officer is entering a hotel and asks "Wait sir, I would like to speak to you."

OK, I try to read this and just start crying. Does it mean that things will get better for us?

http://www.gidreform.org/dsm5.html

http://groups.google.com/group/transgender-news/browse_threa...

Here is a seminar that is exploring the new Protocols. It is in Phily.

http://proposals.trans-health.org/m/

Gwen

I find myself feeling rather fearful and nervous about meeting I am attending at 12:00 today.

The purpose of it is to comment on Treatment Protocols for the GBLT set at OHSU, here in Portland. I don't find myself feeling very charitable toward them as I think they are a pretentious, self important bunch. They seem to filter everything one of us says with filters that put some sort of bizarre Freudian spin on it.

They seemed to feel rather insulted when I walked away from them and went on to actually have a real life, and without their mind numbing drugs.

This link via the English language website of Pravda:

Beauty Contest Hoax

On the 21st of May 1810 Charles-Genevieve Louis-Auguste-Andre-Timothee Deon de Beaumont died in London at the age of eighty-three.
Much has been written about the Chevalier d’Eon since that day. For anyone still unaware of this famous historical figure, please read the links below for a précis of an unusual life which also included diplomat, spy, Advocate, Captain of Dragoons, fencing master etc. Plus, we should remember that at one time, many of us would have been called an Eonist.

It is easy for us to read about such a figure without thinking about the person behind the story.