In three short days I will attend my very first Gold Crown Literary Society Conference and that makes me a GLCS Con Virgin. It’s been a very long time since I could legitimately refer to myself as a virgin. I am fifty five years old so that other ship sailed quite a long time ago. Don’t I… Read More Not a Virgin Anymore

  My wife and I live apart during the week because she travels one way into Seattle and I work  a completely opposite direction in Moses Lake. We ended up buying a condo in Moses Lake which is a small town in Eastern Washington.  Apparently the lake is a big tourist draw. For the first… Read More Etiquette for Bumper Floaties

As I ponder the meaning of today (Independence Day), I am struck by how much this day pales in comparison to the historical moment when the Supreme Court decision same down on June 26th. I’ve always been somewhat bothered by the words in the Declaration of Independence because the founding fathers meant them in an… Read More What if Women Wrote the Declaration of Independence…

About seven years ago I agreed to attend a fundraiser for bicycle safety awareness and advocacy. My wife was out of town at the time, so I attended the event solo and met up with my Rainbow Riders bike group. The requisite silent auction with an eventual live auction for the major items was a… Read More The Trip of a Lifetime or a Drunken Auction Purchase – You Decide

Some of my favorite books are about Southern women and the Southern way of life because quite honestly some of the sayings are laugh out loud funny. I figure if I’d been born in the South and lived there my whole life, I too would be able to write laugh out loud funny books just… Read More Wish I was a Southern Lady….

Every day I learn something new about Social Media. Today I submitted an application for a new Goodreads author page. I don’t even have my Facebook, Tweets, Pinterest,  or Authorise mastered, but what the hell, I signed up anyway. My wife joked with me today and said that keeping up with all of this is… Read More Who Knew?

I’m in an odd occupation for an introvert. I am the Human Resources Executive at a Healthcare organization. HR is the department that plans all those fun activities and I end up being smack dab in the middle of it all. We bar-b-que all day and schmooze with the employees. We come in and bar-b-que on… Read More Mandatory Fun

My mother wasn’t just a beautiful person, she was a selfless mother. Everything she did showed us how much she loved us, even when we didn’t always agree. It took my mother many years to accept that I was a lesbian, not because she didn’t love me, but because she did. She thought that somehow… Read More Ode to My Beautiful Mother

Competition.

So I’ve been told that I’m very competitive. I like to think I’m goal driven. Recently the organization I work for starting a walking competition.  We plan on walking as an organization from Washington State to Key West, Florida. Guess who suggested the gay capitol of Florida? It pays to be the only Senior Leader… Read More Competition