I spent yesterday at the Crafters’ Creations Holiday Bazaar at Lakewood Community Center (where I also play pickle ball three days a week).   I was tickled pink that Cathy and Kevin from Lutheran Church of Christ the King and Bill and Gail from B&G Sponsored Events stopped by to say hello to me during…

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When two introverts get together, they never discuss the mundane.   It’s one of the things I love best about introverts: we’re more or less obsessed with talking about things too few others seem willing to tackle!   Unknown, Unanswerable Christian Conundrums   Among the things we discussed was how unable (or perhaps unwilling) people…

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I’m sitting here at my desk, shirtless, not because I’m twisted but because it’s hotter’n Hades in here right now.   I’ve turned down the heat and am waiting for it to moderate in here…   In the meantime, here I sit contemplating how wonderful it will be after my chest masculinizing surgery to be…

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If you haven’t seen HARRIET, the new motion picture about Harriet Tubman, you should get out and see it right away. Everyone in the United States of America should see it.   Harriet Tubman was a true patriot and a courageous character. If she had been a man and white, she would still, to this…

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YAY! My chest surgery will happen in Seattle. My doctor found a surgeon at one of the Northwest Hospital and Medical Center locations willing to perform it (radical double mastectomy).   Because I’m scheduled to have book tables at three holiday bazaars in November and December, I probably won’t have the surgery until early in…

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There’s been a hiccup in my forward progress toward surgery to have my breasts removed:   The surgical “centre” (they spell it that way to look upscale, although that’s the British way to spell it) here in Tacoma–the one my doctor referred me to–doesn’t perform double mastectomies for gender dysphoria!   GRRRR and DAGNAB IT!!!…

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Two incomplete manuscripts sit in my PC.   I started one last year and the other this year.   They’re called Pushing Past Fear and Heartsongs from a Lifetime of Journal-Keeping.   I just re-read them. They’re good.   But the journal one is so daunting that I put it away for a while. It…

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Goodness Gracious Sakes Alive!   I just counted up the number of books I’ve written and published: 15!!! (not counting the first edition of DeForest Kelley: A Harvest of Memories, the first iteration of DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal).   15 titles is a MAJOR MILESTONE in a writer’s life!   Plus thousands (and…

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Taaa daaa!!!  All six volumes of Kelley Phone Tag: The Rest of the Story are underway at Amazon and will be available in the next couple days. The Kindle versions are available right now.   We got them all out in plenty of time for the 100th anniversary of DeForest Kelley’s birth which is coming up…

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  Hazel Bell, Chris Bailey, Lisa Twining Taylor and I went to watch Pacific NW actor Tim Hoban channel Edgar Allen Poe at the Lakewood Playhouse last night. What a show!   Mr. Hoban will perform it one more time (tonight, Saturday, October 19th at 7:30 pm) so if you’re local to Tacoma and see…

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