Rolling river God

A few years back I had a routine of hiking up a trail at a local park–almost daily. When I would get to the end of my trail, there was a bridge that overlooked the picture you will see below. (One day I actually remembered my camera ). Every time I came to [...]

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May be closer to uncorking…

Gay Rights Watch is reporting that “Oregon anti-gays admit possible failure” in their pursuits to repeal Oregon’s Domestic Partnership law and Anti-discrimination law.
It is always an interesting side-bar to note that the “Oregonians” who are fighting to overturn our equality laws are in fact NOT from Oregon. Alliance Defense Fund folks are from Arizona, and [...]

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Top 100 reasons I am glad I am a lesbian, pt.1

“Top 100 reasons I am glad I am a lesbian”

Some of these “reasons” have been born out of me seeing a man somewhere… in some context… and then saying… “reason #39.” e.g. picture this: unkempt man in dirty clothes dirty hair, dirty hands, smells of tobacco and axle grease = “reason #___.”

Some of these [...]

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What if I say I’m not like the others?

“The Pretender” by Foo Fighters is currently my son’s favorite song. (I have to admit–it really gets me moving’ also!) We were in the car when he played it for me. I remember, as he was sort of singing along with this part of the song:
“What if I say I’m not like the [...]

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Thank heavens for BRO!

As reported through Just Out Blog and the Gay Rights Watch blog, Basic Rights Oregon has filed appeals with the State Supreme Court regarding the State Attorney General’s approved ballot titles for Initiatives 144 and 145 (146 did not seem to be mentioned at this point).
This is great news for our LGBT community and for [...]

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A new land…

I am navigating through the “new blog land” here at WordPress. Very different, in some ways, from Blogger.
Here, I am not able to add some of my favorite widgets I used to have (I loved the FEEDJIT!) to my sidebar.
This also means that my visit counter starts all over again as well…
Change is [...]

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“London Bridge”…

Hi friends! Some of you know that at the beginning of this week I discovered that my blog over at blogger had been “locked” and was viewable only by me (if I logged in).

I looked into this in Blogger’s help groups, and apparently, there are many blogger authors in this limbo presently! Evidently, at the [...]

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