1. Wake UP! Decide that you will have a good day today. A positive attitude can brighten your day.

2. Dress UP! The best way to dress up is to wear a smile. A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

3. Shut UP! Say only nice things and learn to listen to what others have to say. We have two ears and one mouth, so let's do twice as much listening as we do talking.

I had planned to write this post anyway, but Diana’s comment to my last blog really spurred me on. So this blog contains both a response to Diana and more general comments.

I'll never be able to fool anyone...

I didn’t want to do this, but I think I have to.

Unfinished Symphony is not a femdom story.

Here's a poem I wrote 11 years ago that I just found in a folder. When I first wrote it, I couldn't figure out what to do with it so I buried it. Now I'm hoping I found a home for it here.

Life Is Genderful

Society
Tries placing me
As one kind
In body and mind
But I am not a man
And I am not a woman
I'm a human being
Somewhere in between

I thought it would be fun to blog about Unfinished Symphony while it was being posted, but I'm not sure I like the way the blog is turning out. Sounds like I'm just complaining about too few comments (like there ever could be enough). So let's try something else.

Uncle Ghastly, the perpetrator of Ghastly's Ghastly Comic, is drawing some other randomish things on Webcomicsnation these days. He's not unfamiliar to transgender themes, although he likes to be crude about it.

You have been warned.

For Comic, Click Here

I'm going home. When my roommate gets off work (approx 90 minutes from now) she's taking me to the Minute Clinic. They may recommend doc office from there, or fix me up. Bleah. Achy, vomity, head all echoey.

The full article is in Science Daily, and the following is the lead paragraph and a half. It's nice to know some researchers are paying attention

UK Doctors 'Failing' Children Trapped In Gender Limbo, According To Experts
Science Daily (Jan. 24, 2008)

As I started to look for background detail for the Edwardian set stories I've planned, I quickly realised I knew next to nothing about huge chunks of the period (as opposed to the forties setting I've used before when I could rely on books, films and personal reminiscences of family who lived through it).

I keep having the feeling that people don't like this story. I am starting to have second thoughts about posting it to begin with and am wondering if I should Continue at all.

Apparently at around 3:30pm Eastern Time, Heath Ledger was found dead of apparent suicide or accidental overdose.

Some vital points were raised by participants in the recent blog discussion about food instigated by SueBrown and left unanswered, because she flummoxed me and I had to concede that I did not have the information readily to hand. In addition I was falsely accused by Sarah Lynn Morgan of hastening the demise of the Homing Leek. I will demonstrate below that this is a monstrous calumny.

Last night, I posted the following text in a bulletin:

I guess I was having a bad night. It certainly isn't reader's comments that keep me writing. No one could exist on such paltry feedback.

So where does inspiration come from? Tonight it came from two pieces of classical music (one by Schá¶nberg, one by Ives), Klimt's 'Judith' and an assist from Oscar Wilde.

I'm 300 words in and it seems to be going swimmingly, though there's a better than fair chance that when I read it back in the morning it's just going to be pretentious b*****s.

Oh well :)

I recently posted an older story, New Job, here. I must admit I was disappointed by the response. Although 2,000 readers opened the first chapter and 1,000 the last of five, there were very few comments. I suppose I should be used to that, every author ultimately gets less feedback than she would wish, but based on past reactions, I was hoping for more than just hitting the floor with a thud.

While reading alot of stories classified as TG I've wondered ....

If someone was happy BEFORE a forced change...

Are they actually TG AFTER ??

Even tho they've resigned to their fate....

Someday a boy will survive and return to what they wanted ???

I don't recall reading a plot where the boy comes out the end as a boy happily...

The most recent, ie part 10 are all new episodes which have not been posted anywhere else.

I know this one is not as popular as some of my other stories, but it's still the one I like best. To the other two who will read it, I hope you enjoy it.

Angharad.

I have a question that I can not answer. The answer would make life all the more confusing for me. I am not sure I want the question answered. A great many people I know are much nicer people than I am. They carry heavier loads, have more cares, and often they face bad health every single day.