Some catching up here indeed! Since my last entry in late June things have been a zoo around here. For a start, MCCGSL has moved into our new home in the Soulard District in Saint Louis, Mo. We had a "ribbon cutting" ceremony on June 21, 2009 and have been holding our regular Sunday services there. for a story from the St. Louis Post Dispatch on ( Read more... )

There hasn't been a whole lot of time for writing the last couple of weeks - things have remained crazy at work schedule wise. Still, there have been some odd moments when there has been time to check some of the Transgender discussion boards that I post on from time to time. One has had a thread running on what animal you most closely identify ( Read more... )

For some reason it seems that just when I think that things will quiet down and I can get caught up on things like rest and posting here something happens to change my plans. Another constant is that whenever I think that life can't get any more interesting something new gets thrown into the mix. Suffice to say that life is seldom boring these days ( Read more... )

When I was growing up and the family went on vacation it always seemed that I was asking "How much further is it?". And the answer was always "Just a little further." The lesson being that a goal is always a little further away or harder to achieve than you think it would or should be. This was brought to mind today as I listened to Rev. Carol give ( Read more... )

A little over a month ago I wrote about the on going saga of MCCGSL's search for a home, a place of our own. Great plans and grand dreams have been proposed - as indeed a renovation of this scope should be. Philosopher Henry David Thoreau once wrote that castles built in the air are in their proper place - the trick is to put a foundation under ( Read more... )

The piece in the cut below is a statement with which I can whole heartedly agree. I'll add that here in St. Louis at MCCGSL we have seen similar things. One that stands out in my memory was a Baptism for the child of a man being deployed to Iraq - the church that was originally to have the service backed out at the last minute - why? - one of the ( Read more... )

A friend at MCCGSL sent me this piece - I suspect that no matter how we may choose to address our personal choice of diety that we may have said something similar ( Read more... )