Today is my birthday — I turned 57. (Eek!) Yesterday my brother and his son (Awesome Nephew) met my father and me at one of Harford county’s oldest Methodist churches. Our brother and mother are buried there. We had my favorite kind of service — no sermon, just people talking about their memories of the …
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I was going to catch up on my writing today but …
… I blanked on everything I know about good body mechanics while lifting when I was clearing some weeds around the front porch. I kept pulling on one of the sneaky type of weeds that looks all weak and wraps itself around everything above ground but in the soil is a network of thick, woody …
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Please donate to send me to Maggie’s funeral Friday and Homocon the next day
Please donate to help me fly to Kentucky for Maggie’s funeral on Friday, then to New York on Saturday to see Ann Coulter speak at Homocon, then home to Maryland on Sunday. (I bought my Homocon ticket in August — it’s a coincidence that the two dates are not only in sequence but also when …
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Final vigil for Maggie
Maggie’s sister called me around 6:30 am to tell me that she and Maggie’s brother had been called and told that Maggie does not have much longer to live. They had gone to their respective homes for the weekend on Friday afternoon to get chores done, based on assurances from the doctors that Maggie seemed …
Lady Gaga addresses the Senate via YouTube on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
One of the most amazing, joyful, electric experiences I’ve ever had in my life was to be in the front of the crowd at last year’s gay and lesbian March for Equality when Lady Gaga came to the microphone to speak. She was the only speaker to address Obama directly and call on him to …
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Maggie passed the point of no return yesterday
Around 11 am yesterday, shortly after I got off the phone with Maggie’s sister, who is staying with her 24/7 along with her brother, Maggie’s behavior shifted dramatically from a determination to live to an urgent desire to get up and go. This is NOT the same as a desire for suicide. Restlessness is a …
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Republican primary victor Mattie Fein rips the Republican Party old boy playbook
Mattie Fein has a guest op-ed at The Other McCain that is worth reading. I haven’t seen the video, but I gather Karl Rove was annoyed by Christine O’Donnell’s primary victory in Delaware and she has some thoughts for him. For some reason, the women candidates in the Republican Party seem absolutely determined to win …
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A Conservative Lesbian blegs for donations to attend Blogcon and the 9/12 March
I hope some of my dear gentle readers will be willing and able to donate a total of at least $400 to assist me with my expenses to attend Blogcon in Washington, D.C., from today through Sept. 11 and the 9/12 March on Sunday. I’m really only asking for help with paying Awesome Nephew for …
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Maggie Byrd, cancer and the decision between hospice and acute care
When Maggie was diagnosed with advanced lymphoma about two weeks ago, she was told she had between three and 22 weeks to live. She told her doctors she wanted to live. They came up with a chemotherapy treatment strategy that shrank the tumor. She was discharged. The treatment program included an injection of heparin, a …
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Countering NOM’s lies about the decision overturning Prop 8
The Mormon Church is the primary source of funds for the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage equality and frames the issues surrounding according to the doctrines of the Mormon Church. Remember that the Mormon Church defines what YOU probably think of as “traditional marriage” as spiritually dead and inferior to the Mormon …
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