What a wonderful interview by a wonderful person and activist for transgender acceptance! Good Morning America ("GMA") is a workday morning news-magazine show in the U.S. with a large viewership. It's great to see such a sympathetic interview on this, the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGr8vl0vlfg

It was plain to me, why not the Ref? Will the Frogs get away with it? I am waiting for the men to all get to it.

Where is that famous Irish ire and and taste for blood?

Have I been decieved, are these boys disappointingly civilized?

Gwen

Thanks to the recent refreshing of The Prodigal, the story received many new hits and comments, and that has caused me to consider writing a prequel. Keeping in mind that this is likely to be a rather dark and violent tale, would anyone be interested in such a thing? I will probably go through with it anyway, but I'm interested in knowing the interest level.

Also, look for something featuring Bree in the next few hours. I've just finished a short piece for the Transgender Day of Remembrance and I'll be posting it soon.

For all of you kindly folk who have been supportive. I posted Rememberance of My Birth as my way of acknowledging the day but also to remember that Andrea would likely not exist at all but for the love of my sister and how I believe God used the devotion of a little boy to protect his best friend. We survived brutality and pain, and grew up, maybe marred and damaged, but never alone and never without love. That continues today as I face the implications and aftermath of that pain, but not without hope and certainly not without friends like yourself.

My apologies for my lack of voting.

I am currently experiencing problems with Firefox 3.5 as all of a sudden, it decided that certain elements of websites would not be accessible to me. Amongst those, is the ability to vote.

I get the little pointy finger and all and I can click--it's just that nothing happens.

I have been using Firefox now for well over two years and thought it was the mutts nuts, but now, it just seems to be letting the side down.

Of course, I have written to Mozilla and have received the usual explanation - nothing.

After a long absence while it was being polished and updated I have now brought back Rebekkah DeMere's long and wonderful masterpiece, "The Eight Dragon's Trilogy" with new illustrations and easy reading online of the complete books as well as text versions for easy download to handheld devices or just those that prefer the simple text without all the graphics. Below is one of the cover's and intro by your's truly to give you a little taste of this fascinating tale for either you first time readers or simply those who want to go back and reread this excellent adventure.

Okay, faux pas over, I really have the edited article now and will be posting it later this afternoon.

Next time I won't make an announcement until I know.

Or maybe I won't make one at all...

...Maybe I'll just post it.

So there.

Intellectually I know that the number of votes, comments, and hits have no direct correlation to the quality of the writing. Good pieces go unnoticed. Badly written pieces sometimes hit all the right buttons. But in my heart I would love to be elected homcoming queen. Caring what others think of you is called sanity.

Here is something to do with that left over turkey from Thanksgiving. Something different that the usual turkey sandwiches, turkey casserole, turkey tetrazzini, etc.

If you happened to go the ham route at Thanksgiving, all the better because the original recipe calls for ham, but Turkey, or even chicken can be substituted for the meat portion of this recipe.

My mom, whom I stole this from, actually called them "Tacos" but they are more like Taquitos.

Ok, here it is. The recipe below is for two dozen or so, but you can adjust to make more or less.

You will need:

The young South African woman athlete talks with Donald Mcrae in the Guardian.

A well written article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/nov/14/caster-semenya-d...

A number of readers are saying that I should start finishing off Changes as it appears to be coming to a natural end, as certain threads are closing or have closed. Others have said that I should go into book 2 or some sort of sequel as there are a lot of things unfinished.

I tried the book 2 methods for Working Girl and Home Alone and while they were appreciated, I always felt that the edge had been knocked off the readers appetite.

and hopefully have it ready for December (maybe the contest?) I have some vague ideas of where I'd like to explore next, but if anyone out there has suggestions I'm very willing to listen. No promises on what I might use, but don't let that stop you!

Reply here or send me a private message. And thank you for reading--and commenting on--Symbols!

SuZie