Gabi Clayton Last week Alec and I went in for our annual medical check-up. Our doctor’s secretary asked us to fill out new paperwork and the first question was “Do you have any current complaints?” Alec wrote: “Yes, George Bush Jr. is still in office.” They all loved it, and they told us that about 40% of …
I found this New Zealand Quaker meeting statement of Affirmation and Reconciliation about the inclusiveness of sexualities, especially gays and lesbians from the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance website religioustolerance.org: New Zealand: The Quaker meeting in Aotearoa is called “Te Hahi Tuhauwiri.” This was the name gifted to them by the Maori Language Commission in …
Hi everyone Steve Schalchlin and his partner Jim Brochu – have opened a new play off-Broadway in New York City to rave reviews: “The Big Voice: God or Merman?” http://www.thebigvoice.com Some of you may remember that an earlier musical of theirs, “The Last Session” was recognized with many awards including PFLAG-LA’s Oscar Wilde Award for …
We went to see Borat after dinner on Thanksgiving. It’s not the kind of movie I usually enjoy. I cringed and laughed through it. Borat is actually English comedian Sasha Cohen in real life. My friend Carolyn Wagner sent me this today. It’s Sasha Cohen playing Bruno, an Austrian gay reporter, interviewing the pastor of …
Here he is: That tshirt has one of Alec’s paintings on it.See Alec’s art on shirts and other stuff. Then here is Noel napping in the afternoon today. He brought his cat Linus with him and that was fun. I didn’t get a good picture of Linus until tonight before they left for home in …
Our son Noel is home for Thanksgiving (with his cat Linus.) Noel has been a vegerarian since high school. So we usually do Thanksgiving without poultry & meats. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* One vegetarian shares the bond she developed with turkeys after finding alternatives to this traditional Thanksgiving comfort food. and Turkeys love to be caressed, and people …
What if Christian leaders are wrong about homosexuality? I suppose, much as a newspaper maintains its credibility by setting the record straight, church leaders would need to do the same: Correction: Despite what you might have read, heard or been taught throughout your churchgoing life, homosexuality is, in fact, determined at birth and is not …
. . . For an Indian, who is also a school teacher, Thanksgiving was never an easy holiday for me to deal with in class. I sometimes have felt like I learned too much about “the Pilgrims and the Indians.” Every year I have been faced with the professional and moral dilemma of just how …
I don’t often promote other people’s stuff, but Noel gave me this very special poster two years ago for Christmas and some people have asked about it. Noel grew up seeing this photograph: From left to right ~ there is my sister Mimi, a photographer from southern California who my mother tried to set me …