I believe that I have written here before about some of the outreach work we do at Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Saint Louis around educating the public about LGBT issues and life. Today was a rare opportunity for me to do a presentation about transgender to a group in the medical field. It was also the first time I have done so solo - ( Read more... )

A close friend sent me this as an email. And if you really think about it the boy in the story is right. Because we spend our lives pursuing the "Good things in Life" or the "Luxuries" we often lose sight of what really matters - and how simple our needs are. Think about it, being poor is as much a state of mind as a physical fact. Look around you ( Read more... )

It has gotten to be a regular scenario at work the last couple of years - we lose another body in operations and get handed another new hire that must be trained from scratch in how the plant works. Not everyone has the temperament to handle a job that could be likened to playing chess in three dimensions - what we have is called an interactive ( Read more... )

To "Have your cake and eat it too" is an old expression that in some ways means that you want to have it all - without compromise. For the last couple of weeks I have been playing with a Linux distribution optimized for the ASUS EeePC - my 1000H came with Windows XP and I want to keep that on the internal hard drive but be able to boot the fully ( Read more... )

When I last posted I was in the middle of downloading the Beta release of Windows 7. Wonder of wonders the download finished successfully and I've swapped out the hard drive on my HP laptop and loaded it there on. I must say that for a Beta software release that there has been a surprising lack of problems/bugs. In some ways it looks and preforms ( Read more... )

In some ways it has been a quiet week in River City - but it has had its moments. For a start, I'm on midnight shift and so am not at what one would call my best. So naturally Microsoft has chosen this time to release a Beta of its new operating system - Windows 7 - and tech junkie that I am, I could not resist the temptation to try download it for ( Read more... )

I long ago quit trying to make, much less keep, New Years resolutions. Still, the period around New Years day is a good time to sit back and think about things in life that need to be done in order to be able to retire and move on with my life ( Read more... )

From a Journal post by radargrrlI am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian ( Read more... )

It has been a time of transition here in some respects - mental as well as physical. After the deep pit of depression that I fell in to last year at this time, I was determined not to repeat it this year. So it was obvious to me that some old traditions had to be given up and some new ones started. This became even more important when my original ( Read more... )

When I read news reports on the death of someone like Jennifer Gale of Austin Tx. I am like a young child who asks "why the sky is blue?". Why should such a thing happen? After all, there are homeless shelters and other agencies that are supposed to help the homeless and prevent things like this from happening. But there is an inconvenient truth ( Read more... )