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Bi Visibility WITH Visual:I'm Here, Queer; This Is My Face
Well, I have worked my way past the glitches that kept me from posting a picture of myself on Bi Pride/Bi Visibility/Celebrate Bisexuality Day (September 23rd.) The picture above is one of my "secular...
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Kitten Grows, I (and my $$) Shrink; Gov't Goes Pffft!
"As the government goes pffft..." I started a recent FaceBook post that way and my cousin, the Raucous Royalist, found it funny. I guess it is funny in its way. We have to laugh so we won't cry....
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A 9 Month Old Gracie and a New Job and Other New Stuff
Hello Y'all. First, here's 9 month old Gracie: Grown-up sized but still ridiculously baby-faced cute (in her human Mums' opinions.)Alice (whose age we're no longer counting in months) turned 7 years...
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Rosy's "Dancing Daughters"
Well, we did it! Lady Lucia and I participated in our very first ballroom dance competition last weekend. We competed at the Preliminary Bronze (lowest) level and were the only same-sex couple as well...
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A Kitten and Cat Grow Together in Brooklyn: Gracie 10 Months
Gracie's 10 Month Portrait I took this picture of Gracie this morning. Her ten month "birthday." I think she looks very mature here; almost literary. Hmmm...a Little Literary Lioness. My mewing...
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I just read an article in the New York Times about "Christmas abstainers." The author wasn't talking about atheists or people who celebrate other holidays, but about Christians who don't celebrate...
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Cute Cats, New Shoes and a Blessed Snow Day in Brooklyn
Grown-up Gracie: 11 Months Gracie is eleven months old, as of yesterday. She is definitely larger than Alice now, though you can't really tell from this recent picture, below (taken December 21st)...
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A Grownup Cat In Brooklyn: Gracie 1 Year Old!
On February 2nd 2013, Gracie was born (to a feral mother who had been trapped and brought in from the cold) at the New York City ASPCA. 9 weeks later, Lady Lucia and I adopted Gracie and brought her...
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All She Wants To Do Is Dance! (God Knows Why)
Some of y'all believe in God; some don't. That's okay. The ones who don't, put up with my belief in God because I don't do much "God talk" with people outside my religious community (and then only when...
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Brand New Humans, Spring, Cats; Whatever Matters
It's been about six weeks since my last post. Does anybody care? Probably not, but I still feel as if I should "confess" to this sin...Does OS still exist? If I post a blog entry and nobody reads it,...
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I Can't Go Home Again
Yesterday, I had some time to kill between appointments in Manhattan, so did something I'd been intending to do for a while. I went to Thompson Street and looked for building number 78. That was the...
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What Is It About Late April?
So many things happen in late April (the week surrounding my birthday, which is tomorrow, the 25th.) I was ordained to the priesthood on April 30th 2006: Brand new priest, me, leaving the chapel with...
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The Changing of The Blog: New Focus
I started a blog on Wordpress because I wanted to write something different. Wrote one post; then realized there was no reason not to stick with Open Salon, while writing something different. So, that...
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CAT scan soon, but FIRST a dance competition!
The surgery to remove the cyst on my jaw has been postponed by the surgeon, who told me that it looked simple and benign to her, but that she wanted me to have a CAT scan and blood work in order to be...
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Competitive Ballroom: To Succeed Without Really Buying?
Those of you who have been reading this blog for the last couple of years are aware of how much I've come to love ballroom dancing. Having just completed my first "real" competition (meaning that I was...
View ArticleGood Old Summertime, With No Knife For Now
After all the fuss and bother, I decided not to have the CAT scan and to cancel the tentatively scheduled surgery to remove the cyst from my jaw. Why? Well, I did plan to have the CAT scan. Went to the...
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Bo-Go Fro-Yo Bootylicious
This will be a short post. I just had to share. I just got home from the local supermarket, where I'd intended to buy just one container of frozen yogurt (as a lactose-intolerant person, I can't eat...
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Pride and Joy: Marching at NYC Pride 2014
My Pride Sunday started with encouragement from Gracie, who struck this lovely pose, highlighted by a sunbeam on my desk, with miniature rainbow LGBT Pride and Marriage Equality flags in the...
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"Snakey Sisters": Missing My Kindergarten Drama Girls
"All You Need Is Love" - Grand Finale of our Valentine's Day Show They were impossibly adorable little princesses (most of whom dressed in ridiculous amounts of pink almost every day) but they were...
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Nonna Mia, or, My Inner Grandma Emerges
Somehow, I hit the jackpot. Okay. I know how I hit the jackpot. I did it by marrying a woman who had a married adult son. Lady Lucia's son and DIL now have two boys. Senior Grandson is 2 3/4 years old...
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