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For the Record
September 2013

Carmela LaMere
HELENA — Carmela (Carmie) LaMere passed away on October 12, 2013. She was born on September 14, 1964, in Helena, to James LaMere and Nancy TwoTeeth LaMere. She was then adopted by Chuck and Sarah TwoTeeth, of Arlee.

She graduated from Arlee High School and then from Salish Kootenai College. She returned to Helena to raise her daughter and worked to make a life there.

She worked for the Helena Indian Alliance for many years until her battle with breast cancer. She shared her life with her significant other, Robert Williams, for many years until he fell ill. She took care of him until he moved to be with family. She will be dearly missed by all who were blessed to know her.

She is survived by her grandchildren, who were the absolute lights of her life, Iziak, Zara, and James. She is also survived by: her father, James LaMere; parents, Chuck and Sarah TwoTeeth; sisters, Violet (Mike) Norris, Sara (Charles) LaFountaine, Gloria Tanner, Kathy McClure, Stacey TwoTeeth, and Terry TwoTeeth; brothers, William Weasleboy and Troy TwoTeeth; many well-loved nieces, nephews, and cousins; and her beloved puppy, Chico.

She is preceded in death by: her daughter, Shyla Rae LaMere; her mother, Nancy LaMere TwoTeeth; sister, Alvina Ameline; and brothers, Curtis Alexander and Bam TwoTeeth.

A traditional wake was held at the Helena Indian Alliance gymnasium on Monday, October 14, 2013, and she was buried on Wednesday, October 16, at Resurrection Cemetery in Helena. Pallbearers were Iziak LaMere, Phillip LaMere, Darrin Ameline, Charles LaFountaine, Troy TwoTeeth and Calvin TwoTeeth. Honorary pallbearers were William Weasleboy, Kenny Norris, Brian Tanner, Duffy TwoTeeth and Mike Norris.

David Francis Old Person
ARLEE — David Francis Old Person (Tapit Plasi), 54, was born on September 16, 1959, in St. Ignatius, to Jack Bird and Eleanor Old Person, and passed away on October 9, in Arlee, due to natural causes.

David graduated from Browning High School in 1977. He was raised in the Starr School area by grandparents, George and Angeline Old Person. David worked for the public school system, both in Browning and the Arlee, as a custodian for many years.

David loved to bead clocks and other items for family and friends, and loved to share his skill with others. David also loved to be around horses. He was raised working and caring for them.

David enjoyed and loved both his Blackfeet and Salish family. He took time to visit and make every one laugh. People enjoyed having David around because he was so easy going and just loved to smile. Yes, he may have come-off as a shy cowboy, but once you got to know him, you were almost, if not guaranteed, a best friend forever. David will be, without a doubt, greatly missed. The friendship he provided was rare and precious.

David is preceded in death by: mother, Eleanor Old Person; and sisters, Laura and Annett Old Person.

David is survived by: brothers, Alfred, Carl, Wayne Bird, and Daylin Tomly; sisters, Melinda Old Person, Murlel Dusty Bull, Deanna Rutherford, Betty Ann Matt, Georgie DeRoche, and Debbie Home Gun; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Yvonne Josephine “Lorraine” Bucher
BOZEMAN — Yvonne Josephine “Lorraine” Bucher was born on March 24, 1930, to Sidney and Edna Clairmont Shourds. She was a member of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Lorraine graduated from Ronan High School in 1948, and later attended nursing training at St. Joseph’s Hospital, in Lewistown, where she met Paul Bucher and was married on Halloween in 1949. She never knew if she tricked him or treated him. They started their lives together in the Lewistown area and later moved to Geraldine, where Paul bought a butcher and locker plant. They lived there for 16 years before they left to the Seattle area for better opportunities for their three boys. She started working in a convalescent home and realized she should get her Registered Nurse License, so she when back to school. When she retired they moved back to Montana they picked Bozeman to live, as two of her sons were already there, as well as Paul’s brother and sister-in-law. She and Paul went on many trips with the Senior Center, she volunteered along with her sister-in-law at Bozeman Deaconess for many years before her COPD caught up will her. In 2012 they moved into Highgate Senior Living, as homeownership was becoming too hard to deal with. She played card games, which she had enjoyed all of her life, even until the last night she was asked if she wanted to play, and she responded "Yes." In her last year, there was talk of who was going to go first, Lorraine or Paul. As in cards, she got the last trick. Paul and Lorraine would have been married 63 years on Halloween. She was a wonderful wife, mother, sister and friend.

She is survived by her siblings: Theresa Morigeau, Cheryl (Buck) Cheff, Nathan (Wanda) Shourds, Karen (Mick) Cheff, Rhonda Jean, Lori (Alan) Grenier, Phil (Kendra) Shourds and Alvina (Cliff) Teigen; and numerous nieces and nephews. She is also survived by her sons, Michael (Jeanne), Patrick and Fred (Marge); as well as eight grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, with one on the way; and numerous nieces and nephews. We will all miss the quiet, caring, fun woman she was with all of us.

She was preceded in death by her father and mother; step-mom, Rose Shourds; and brothers, Chester Shourds and Sid Shourds, Jr.

Thomas Joseph Parizeau
ANACONDA — Thomas Joseph Parizeau was born in St. Ignatius on June 10, 1954 to Fredrick Parizeau and Delma Bourdon Parizeau. He joined his Lord and family on Sept. 12, 2013.

Tom resided most of his life in Anaconda with his family and later with his step father, Charles Britten. He worked on the smelter for a short time, but the joy of his days was being a swamper and worker at Thompson’s Bar. He spent many hours with his close friends having pop or coffee for 27 years. He really enjoyed working very close friends Duane and MaryAnn Brugman, and all his workers. He really enjoyed his walks around town stopping and visiting with people. He loved being out in the air.

Thomas was survived by sisters, Virginia Rogers and Angela (May) Anderson; nephew. Steven Sandstrom;and great-nephew, Iolaus Sandstrom; niece, Ursula Parizeau Otonicar (Ken), 1 great nephew and 3 great nieces, Sadie Sandstrom, with four great nephews, and Rose Sandstrom.

He was preceded in death by his father, mother, step-dad, sister, Rose Roman, brother, Fred Parizeau and numerous family he spent time with from where was born. Everywhere he went he brought smiles to his friends.

A visitation was at the Foster Funeral Chapel in St. Ignatius, and continued on Thursday at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Anaconda, with a vigil service held Thursday evening. A family service was held Saturday, September 21 in the St. Ignatius Catholic Cemetery where he will be laid to rest by his mother. Condolences may be left at

James Lee Last Star
BROWNING — James Lee Last Star, 57, “Jim Guy,” went to be with the Creator on September 10, 2013 in Missoula.

A member of the Blackfeet Tribe, he was born in Browning on March 6, 1956 to Calvin and Mary (Many Hides – Blood) LastStar. Following his graduation from high school in Conrad, he attended the College of Great Falls and worked in the construction industry. But Jim Guy was a traveler at heart and made his home throughout the state and had many friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Calvin and Mary; grandparents, Theodore and Emma Last Star, and Francis Many Hides and Emma Blood, and sister, Melinda.

Survivors include brothers and sisters, Lolita, Marshalene, Calvin, Jr., Gerald, Brian and Virgil; and a large extended family.

A wake began on Thursday, September 12 at the Glacier Homes Community Center in Browning, with the rosary being recited on Friday evening at 7 pm. Funeral services were at Little Flower Catholic Church on Saturday, with burial following in the Last Star – Old Methodist Cemetery. Condolences may be left at

Wilma Jean “Beana” Burke
PABLO — On September 2, 2013 Wilma Jean “Beana” Burke passed away at her home in Pablo. Beana died on the day of her older sister Glenda’s funeral. Some say she died from a broken heart, as her big sister was everything to her…hero, mentor and protector. It was usual for Beana to follow Glenda’s lead. We affectionately called them the "Baldwin Sisters." Even though we are so sad to see Beana go, we are comforted to know that our two sisters are together again.

Beana was born on June 6, 1962 in Hot Springs to Dennis Burke and Louise Caye. She was the youngest sister born into a large family. Maybe that is why taking care of people was Beana’s calling. She was most happy when she was helping family or friends in need. These were the times she felt pride in herself and when she seemed the most confident in herself.

At one time, Beana was employed by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes as a caregiver, then as a cook for the Elmo Senior Citizens. Like her sister Glenda, she moved to Akutan, Alaska, where she found work as a cook at a local café. She loved her time on the Aleutian Islands where she made life-time friends. She returned home to the Flathead Reservation, but Alaska called her again and she was happy to explore Juneau where she was employed as a processor at a fish cannery.

On June 7, 1981 Beana gave birth to a daughter who she gave to the child’s paternal aunt and husband to adopt. Beana simply wanted the best for her baby and she was confident that Leslie Kallowat and Orsino Walker would provide for the baby’s every need. She was able to enjoy a lasting relationship with her daughter and then with her two grandchildren. She was so proud of them all.

Beana was preceded in death by her parents, her brother William, and her sister Glenda. She is survived by her daughter, Shavonne Walker; grandchildren, Ana Michel and Uriah Michel, Jr., of Elmo; brothers, Clifford (Shannon), of Ronan, Francis (Bonnie), of Pablo, Mike (Geraldine), of Polson, Marlin (Tracy), of Big Arm, Tyrone (Gail), of Ronan, Reuben (Nyia), of Dayton, and Leonard “Whiskey Joe,” of Omak, Washington; sisters, Clarissa, of Elmo, Clarinda, of Big Arm, and Marcella, of Polson; uncle, William “Butch” Burke, of Nespelem, Washington; aunties, Carol and Cookie, of Omak, Washington, Lucy Caye, of Elmo, and Aggie Caye, of Polson; as well as several cousins from Montana and Washington.

Rosary was recited Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 8 p.m. at the Elmo Community Center. Funeral Mass was held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 5, 2013 in Elmo. Burial followed at the Dayton Cemetery. Messages of condolences may be shared with the family online at


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My father, Fernandez HA of Temerloh, is no more but he will be remembered...

It is a sad day for my father just passed away at 3.30am (10/6/2011, Friday), and his funeral will be at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Church, Jalan Tanjong Kerayong, Mentakab at 3pm on Saturday(11/6/2011)

He was a great man, and he influenced me a lot to make me who I am today. A simple hospital assistant(now they are called Medical Assistant or then commonly known as "Dresser"), he worked for over 20 years at the Pusat Kesihatan, Temerloh. Before that he was in Triang, Kuantan and Frasers Hill for a while. After retirement, he was on contract working at the then Mentakab Hospital for some years.

He was ever willing to help anyone that came for help. Even after office hours, when the Dispensary was closed, he never once complaint whenever people came requiring medical treatment and/or assistance. It could even be 2 or 3 am, but he will uncomplainingly get up and go and provide the required medical care - and, if they needed to be sent to the hospital, he will call the ambulance and wait for it to come with the patients and only then come back to go to sleep.
Even when we were driving around, and he came across persons, most of whom were strangers, walking, he will stop and offer a lift.

He did not see people based on their ethnicity or religion but as human persons. Your position or title did not matter to him. He played tennis with the HRH the Sultan of Pahang, and was a great sportsperson, winning even tennis competitions when he was past 50 years of age. In his younger days, he was a footballer, and at one time he was playing for the then famous Kampar Indians. His footballing career came to an abrupt end when he injured his shin badly - that required many stitches.(Well, this injury had an impact on me as my parents never encouraged me to play football - though I did  on the quite in the Padang Besar Temerloh.

It is because of him that today I too see human persons as human being irrespective of the colour, ethnicity, religion or status.

I have so much to be thankful to my father for he did educate me and nurtured me to also have positive values - and to help because it was the right thing to do - not for reward not for praises.

I am truly going to miss my father, who passed away at the age of 82 (but somehow, as it was common then, I believe that he was at least 85 as he often said that he was the same age as Dr Mahathir).

He may have retired some 20 over years ago, but interestingly many still do remember him. Even when I went to the police station to report his death, the officer there knew him - so did many others. People never forget his kindness...and his ever-willing to help attitude...and this is comforting. He may not be a 'Datuk' or got some titles from the government - but that does not matter to people, who show respect if you had lived your life as a good man.

He is gone now - but his memories and his values will certainly live on in me, my siblings and the many others that have been touched by him especially here in Temerloh.

MZZainal said...

Please accept my condolences on the loss of your father. You are in my thoughts and prayers

joolee said...

Deepest condolences. He was a father you are proud of and you are a son he must have been very proud of.

Khun Pana aka johanssm said...

Condolences .
May his spirit of kindness instill in all of us .

Joel Christie Isaiah said...

Great man whom the son respects so much. That is the reason Jesus said, "Let your light so shine before man and that they may see your good works and glorify the Father in heaven."
I believe that your late father fits this category. Surely you will meet him in heaven.

Regina said...

A very moving tribute, Hector. What a great man, your father! So good to know the essence of what made you who you are, too. You continue to inspire me to fight the good fight. With much love and well wishes for you, your mum and all the family.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Workers in East Malaysia discriminated against by Minimum Wage Order

Now, what is revealed is that this BN government is really not so bothered about workers in East Malaysia and their families and/or dependents...

By fixing the minimum wage for East Malaysian workers at ONLY RM800, far below the poverty line income of Sabah and Sarawak, the government will keep East Malaysians workers and their families poor - nay, maybe even increase the number of workers earning less than poverty line income

In setting the minimum wage for workers in Malaysia, one of the primary consideration was that these workers receive at the very least wages above the POVERTY LINE INCOME

The Malaysian Government has decided that the Minimum Wage that workers in Peninsular Malaysia would be entitled to beginning 1 January 2013 is RM900-00, and this figure is above the Poverty Line Income for Peninsular Malaysia in 2009, being RM763.

BUT for workers from East Malaysia,  this BN government fixed minimum wages at only RM800  that is LOWER than the poverty line income in Sabah (RM1,048) and Sarawak (RM912) - Why? Why are they treated as though they are 'step children' of Malaysia? Remember their 'minimum wage' will be lower than that of workers in Peninsular Malaysia, when in fact based on their poverty line income, it should have reasonably been higher...

The other reason is, according to our National Employment Returns 2009, 34% of 1.3 million workers in the study earn less than RM700. It could be more. Our Government has determined the poverty line to RM720, so we have by virtue of the wage mechanism itself, we are creating poverty in about 34% of people on the go, without doing anything else at all. So when the Government decided the poverty rate is RM720 and our wage mechanism by virtue implementation as we have, shows that 34-35% of below poverty line and that is something to do and to think about. How does wage address the issues of capacity to live in this country is important issues and because of this we have this phenomenon of very low income group within the urban sector and the stresses of life which is associated with it. So we will have to accept all these facts and find a solution on how we are going to address it. The issue which we all agree is that the wages have to be increased. -

Our Government has determined the poverty line income for  Sabah and Sarawak is RM1048 and RM912 respectively, , so ... by virtue of the wage mechanism itself (Minimum Wage Order 2012 that fixes minimum wage for East Malaysian workers at RM800) , the government will be creating poverty in a very high percentage of workers in Sabah and Sarawak when employers will pay them RM800 minimum wage by virtue of this Federal Government Order.....So, poverty amongst Sabahan and Sarawakian families will be allowed to continue to exist or increased not by 'without doing anything else at all' but by virtue of a Federal Government Order....

Analysis of average wages offered by employers participating in the ministry’s Fast Track Programme from October-December 2009 is shown in the following table

Fast Track: Average Wages and Allowances for Local Workers
According to Manufacturing Sector Sub-Industry
Electric & Electronic
Average Total
Source: http://www.mohr.gov.my/blog/table1.pdf

Querries: Is this using the same data as National Employment Returns 2009? What about workers in the plantation, agricultural, construction, commercial, mining,... sectors? Data provided by employer only, or both employer and workers? Does it include workers in Sabah and Sarawak?

"... The market forces in our country should increase in everything else except wages, right? Inflation increased, cost of living increased, income of company increased and everything else increases but wages didn’t increase. So somehow or rather this phenomenon of market forces did not work and we have to go to the basic fact why it didn’t work.
There is another area to think, another area to analyze of why didn’t market forces caused upward movement of wages in this country for the lower category of people and what are the reasons for it?..."

If  I was the government, I will  fix the Minimum Wage at RM1,500-00 for this will be above all poverty line income, and this will also in line with what workers in the public sector in Malaysia are being paid.

"...If you compare private and public sector, a stenographer or typist in the public sector which we now call the N17 scale, their starting salary is about RM1,500. Whereas a similar person employed in the private sector, gets about RM900 to RM1,000. There is a big gap now between private sector and public sector. Previously, it used to be private sector which was higher than public sector but now the public sector has overtaken the private sector..."

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It's all in the past...

I've finally gotten over the sleeve debacle. I had to go to TX for a quick visit with my parents (my mom had surgery, all is, thankfully, well) and so I took the sock that's needed for my husband's b'day on the 25th. It had been languishing, as I couldn't pull myself away from Ariann!
Now I've finished tinking, put the sleeve on correctly, and am happily moving along!
Love this alapca, and the pattern!
Also love having this KAL - it's inspiring to see everyone else's progress, know I'm not the only one to make mistakes, and get some good tips!

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Oh - the Froggin' Blues - we should start a GrrlBand and sing it.

I am working on a hoodie and just ripped out 2 inches of it because I noticed a weird looseness on some of the stitches by a join.

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Why Read?

I believe this is the crisis of our times: we are losing readers, we are forgetting why reading is important as well as pleasurable, and we are becoming accustomed to a culture focused primarily on images.  What happened to our long-term attention span?  Why are logic and fact-based analysis overshadowed by rhetoric and politics?  Why can’t we slow down?  Why do we believe responding in real time on Twitter and Facebook is ‘meaningful involvement’ with society or family?  Why is reading more important than ever?

Over the past few weeks, I have been reading Edith Wharton’s novels at night, and have marveled at the modernity of the protagonists, from Lily Bart to Undine Spragg, and at Wharton’s ability to keep the story moving, the characters evolving, and the reader surprised.  I like to learn from good novelists, and I am learning from Wharton.

I have timed my reading to finish whenever a Yankee game is on the Yes Network, and if no game is at hand, then at least Storage Wars or American Pickers.  That’s it.  That’s about the only TV I watch, or I feel is worth watching.  My kids rarely watch TV, and my wife only watches the news, if that.  They do see episodes of The Office, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report on their computers, which prompts me to consider whether I should cut cable TV once and for all.  But I don’t.  Not yet.  I want to, but I don’t.

Since Aaron and Isaac were toddlers, my wife and I read to them.  Every night.  Thirty minutes for Laura.  Thirty minutes for me.  This was our religion through their grade school years.  Not surprisingly Aaron and Isaac as high-school students are enthusiastic readers for pleasure.  After school, they are as likely to guffaw at Stephen Colbert on their MacBooks as they are to read their novels in bed.  But this family culture of reading, if you can call it that, took years to foment, took attention and care to implement and nurture, and took active dismissal of what I would call the normal American culture of not reading.

I am often asked how I became a reader, in part because many know that I grew up poor along the Mexican-American border of El Paso, Texas.  My parents did not read to me.  They could read and did read in Spanish, but most of my reading was in English.  My parents did hand me two or three dollars for paperback books I ordered at South Loop School from Scholastic Books every other Friday.  But more importantly, they left me alone.  They left me alone with my massive collection of paperbacks, and they never disparaged my love of reading.  The opportunity to read and the space to read are as important as having your parents read to you.  I still remember the lime-green bookshelves my handy father built in my room.  These bookshelves housed my treasures.  I have never forgotten how he took the time to do what mattered to me.

So I don’t know if you are made a reader, or if you are born a reader.  What I do know is that reading widely —reading beyond your time and culture, reading different genres, reading in different languages— changes your perspective profoundly.  Television becomes a bore, and what is said and done on television is amusing.  But it’s rarely important.  The crisis of the day or the outrage of the day becomes just more inane shouting to get your attention.  On the Internet, online status updates are interesting little notes about your life, but never more than that.  It’s not really who you are, and well, a serious reader would know that.  But you worry about the others.  Those who don’t read. Those who take television as the truth.  Those who sell stocks at the clarion call of another ‘crisis,’ or buy gold as they anticipate a Mayan apocalypse, or attack an ‘other’ because ‘they’ are after us, aren’t they?

Yes, I worry about our American culture and how it is shaping us.  It’s short-term-ism, if you can call it that, its obsession with fluff and images, its endless talk about who stunned in what dress.  Are any of us ever going to look like Victoria Secret models?  Will any of us ever get a chance to date them?

We are not ‘censored’ in the traditional way in the United States: writers are not beaten or killed because of their words, and no Ministry of Truth enforces an official version of what can be printed and thought.  But in this culture of images, we are censoring ourselves.  That may be more insidious and long-lasting.  What I mean is that we disparage long-term complexity, and extol superficiality.  We ignore reading, and lavish time on images.  To read, in my mind, is to consider and to think.  To see an image is to react.  What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices?  What have you become when the most expected of you is simply to press a ‘Like’ button?  What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners?

Because I live in a different milieu of my own creation, and also because I’m rather humorless unless the joke is really quick and clever and insightful, I’d rather be reading and catch a Yankee game afterwards.  For me, that’s the perfect night.  I can kiss my wife goodnight, and kiss my boys goodnight too (yes, remarkably, they still let me), and know that I am happy to do things the simple way, the slow way.  I focus on how I find meaning in my life over the long-term.  That is how I work to be free.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Saying good-bye and saying hello

Julia had a great few days in Victoria Falls before flying home to Brisbane, Australia on the 9th of February.  We thank her for her work and help while here.

Michael Mereki also headed to Midrand, South Africa to start a new term of school on the 10th of February.  He is enjoying his studies and is half way through, having finished 2 years and starting his 3rd now.  We thank him for being our driver and clerk at the hospital during his vacation time from school!

On the 5th of February we were joined by 5 final year Ohio State University Medical students who chose to do an elective here.  We had Sam, Muneeb, Seema, Sophia and Kate.  They are with us until the end of the month when they will do some traveling to Victoria Falls before leaving.  Next week they go to Rhino Camp with Major for 2 nights to see some animals!

We have been keeping them busy at the hospital and they have gone out on our outreach teams and with Megan in collecting her field samples for her research.  Megan has been here for the last couple of weeks and has been a big help to me getting meals on the table.

On February 8  Dr. Isala's wife Lorraine got very sick with pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure in pregnancy) after working all day.  We got her stabilized with meds and IVs and he rushed her off to Chinhoyi Hospital where there is an OB/GYN specialist.  She was only 7 months, and they made it only as far as Karoi where she had an emergency C/Section.  Their daughter was born 10 weeks early and died after 8 hours.  In the meantime Lorraine got sicker and needed blood so they transferred her to Harare--stopping in Chinhoyi to get 1 unit of blood into her.  She ended up having to have dialysis for kidney failure for 3 days and finally she is doing much better and we hope for her discharge by the end of this week.  Please be in prayer for them during this difficult time.  We are thankful she is on the mend!

with Dr. Isala gone for the last 1 1/2 weeks it has been good to have the medical students and we are keeping everyone busy!

I have been on 17 days of 2 different IV medications and having had several cannulas put in my arms which are now sore and bruised. I have managed to make up my meds and give myself the IV medication each day and only missed an afternoon of work, so I was happy for that.  The doctor told me he wanted me in the hospital and I said that I work in a hospital--so "I am in the hospital everyday!"  I am on my way to see my urologist tomorrow in Harare and hopefully this is the end of the infections I have been going through since October last year!  I am slowly feeling better and getting my strength back--yeah!

 Julia saying good-bye at the hospital

Megan and Julia

 Megan working with Sam and Kate

 Megan working with Seema

 Megan and Dr. Munodawafa with Seema, Sam, Kate, Sophia and Muneeb

Kathy with the students and Dr. Munodawafa

Saturday, February 11, 2017

New visitor, weekend at Batanai and Surgeons came, saying goodbye to Julia

On Saturday the 14th Julia Peacock from Brisbane, Australia arrived as our visitor for 1 month.  She is a nurse who works as an Operating Nurse.  She is here on her vacation time to work with us.

On Monday Dr. Megan Fitzpatrick from Stanford University arrived to start her research project and will be with us for several weeks in the next few weeks as she is data collecting.

On Friday night at prayer time we celebrated that Carolyn Mereki passed her A levels with 7 points.  We took time to thank God and sing and dance.

On Saturday the 21st it was our support group for our older AIDS kids.  We also have a group for their caregivers.  We had a time of questions and answers and then served tea, hard boiled eggs and bread and biscuits for them to take home.   They really look forward to this time and it is so exciting to see the kids as they have grown up on medication to keep them alive and they are doing well.

Saturday afternoon I took Julia and Megan to Major's and my village to spend the night and see how village life is.  We went to church on Sunday morning and then spent the rest of the day looking at my fields, enjoying the rain .  We tried to go home at 7 p.m. and had to turn around and go back to Batanai because the river was too full to cross  and wait a couple of hours and we finally got across about 930 p.m.  It was a busy weekend!

On this last Friday our surgeons from Harare came and this time 2 surgeons, 2 anesthetists and 1 scrub nurse came.  Dr. Mashayamombe and Dr. Ruwizhu joined Mr. Kuwaona and Dr. Kajese.    They ate dinner and at 8:30 p.m. started surgeries.  Julia help scrub until 4 a.m. after she got back from 3 days of safari!   They kept going until noon on Saturday--doing 18 cases!  They are such hard workers it wears all of us out!!  It is such a big help to our patients to have their skills and help.  So many people are helped that can't afford to go to Harare and also pay for surgeries.

This has been a busy week with ZACH trainers in HIV joining us from Tuesday night until Wednesday afternoon.  They had sponsored 2 workshops for us with Village Health Workers and Community leaders on Wednesday and Thursday to inform them of the new Ministry of Health guidelines of test all for HIV and if you are positive get treated.  They are helping us get the message out to all of our villagers.  We also spent time talking about Typhoid which we have been fighting an outbreak since December.  We have had over 120 cases to date but i8t seems to be getting better as we only have had 11 new cases this week.  The government and some NGO's have been helping us with drugs to treat and working with the villages to bring soap and clean water supplies.  We are thankful for that.

Today was Julia's last day of work.  She leaves tomorrow for Harare and Victoria Falls and then home to Australia on Thursday.  She has been a big help to us and very friendly and fun to be around.

Megan has been here for the last 2 weeks working on her research and has her data collectors out getting samples.  She is running the samples in our lab and so far has almost 200 samples collected out the 400 she needs.  Julia has gone out in the villages with her some of the days.

We continue to have plenty of rain.  We were wondering what sunshine looked for awhile but we finally got a few hours of sunshine and heat this week and this morning and then this afternoon we got a big storm that hit with plenty of rain!! They were sweeping out rain that was running in my kitchen backdoor this afternoon--it looked like a flood!

I started back on the IV medication for my UTIs this week and hopefully will be able to go for a scope mid-next week if I can stay bacteria free for a day!

Dancing to celebrate Carolyn's passing her exams

Kids support group Saturday

Tea time with the kids

Julia washing her hands to eat at the village

Tete Jeri cooking sadza for us at Batanai

Church service Sunday morning at Batanai

Sunset at Baton

My maize field at Batanai

My field of peanuts

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BHAWANA/CHINIOT – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said that the government would not rest until all flood-hit families are rehabilitated and get due compensation for their losses.

Addressing a public gathering in Chiniot, the prime minister said that the affected families would be compensated for the losses of their houses, crops as well as livestock in the flash floods. “I assure you that the government will put in all out effort in this noble cause and will go side by side of you,” he remarked. Nawaz said that he had reached there to sympathize with the flood-hit families in the hour of distress, help mitigate their sufferings and also examine the relief efforts.

“The Punjab government as well as the federal government will support you until you are completely rehabilitated.” he assured the gathering. He said that the government was entrusted by the public money that would be spent only for public welfare adding that in case any flood-hit family does not get its due compensation, both Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif would ensure provision of its right. He also ordered to declare the area as calamity-hit and provide all due concessions to the residents entitled to them.

Earlier, the prime minister was briefed about the flood situation in the area and the losses incurred by the natural disaster. Addressing a public gathering in Sargodha, the prime minister said that the people of this constituency were very dear to him as they had also elected him in the elections. He said that the Punjab chief minister was also visiting all flood-hit areas to sympathize with the affected population and examine relief efforts.

He assured maximum government support to the flood affectees. He said the government would soon start work on rehabilitation of infrastructure including roads and prayed that the country gets deliverance from these difficulties. The prime minister committed to visit the area again to examine the disbursement of compensation amount and efforts to rehabilitate the area.

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The window of sleep is becoming increasingly small to climb through. My eyes are open like they're expecting someone to come kiss them goodnight. Yet they don't know who, so the gaze is that of a terrified child. Like Death.

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Sunday, 1 December 2013

Yemeni Chicken Soup

Yemeni Chicken Soup

Recipe source :  Queen of Sheba  ~ Yemeni Recipes

This is the first time I am cooking a dish from Yemen. As I blog around for recipes, I noticed that the foods of many  West Asian countries use plenty of spices which are very similar to our local Malaysian Indians and Malays. However, I have come across some ingredients which I am not familiar and I have no idea where to buy them. Thus I have to give them a skip even though they look very interesting.

This Yemeni chicken soup is very spicy, which is very different from the Chinese soup I used  to boil for my family.

1/2 onion, chopped                  (  I used 1 whole big onion )
1/2 green chili                           ( I used 2 red chilli padi or bird's eye chilli )
3 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp ground pepper
3 - 4 cardamons
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp salt                                    ( I used 1 1/4 tsp )
1/2 tsp ground coriander
2 lbs chicken with bones          ( I used 3 whole chicken drumsticks )
1/4 bunch cilantro, chopped
1 tbsp canned tomato paste    ( I used 1 fresh tomato - cut into small cubes )
2 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into halves length-wise
5 cups water

Left: potatoes- Right: cilantro
Middle top: tomato- Middle bottom: Onion

Clockwise from top : cardamons, turmeric powder, cumin, pepper, ground coriander, red chilli padi.
Centre : garlic
Chicken drumsticks

  1.  Saute onion, garlic, and green chili in oil until garlic is browned and onion translucent. Add cumin, pepper, cardamom, turmeric, coriander, and salt. Then mix thoroughly.
  2. Add chicken and cook for 5 minutes until the outsides are slightly browned. Add tomato cubes, cilantro, water, and potatoes. Cover and cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour over medium heat, adding more water if necessary.
  3. NOTE: If you prefer potatoes firm, slow-cook chicken first then add potatoes at the end and cook for about 30 minutes. ( I added the potatoes and chicken together and simmer for 25 minutes only. The meat and potatoes were already tender after 25 minutes )
  4. Garnish with cilantro and serve.

Notice that the turmeric powder gave a lovely yellowish tinge to the potatoes and chicken

I am submitting this post to Asian Food Fest : West Asia

  1. Never had any Yemeni food before, but this sounds interesting. And as you say, the ingredients can be easily sourced in Malaysia.

  2. Hi Doris, an all time favourite! Yummy :)

  3. Hi ladies,

    Actually the taste is like a cross between Malay and Indian cooking.

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High blood pressure is the silent killer that’s mainly linked to stroke and   a number of heart problems. One out of every three people has blood pressure issues, but more than half of them are not aware of it, so they haven’t put it under control. The only method to prevent stroke and heart ailments is managing the risk factors such as high blood pressure, high blood glucose and high cholesterol. But it’s impossible to know which risk factors you are faced with unless you visit the doctor regularly for blood pressure checks and other tests.

If you’ve an ideal risk level, this does not mean that you’ve a risk of developing a serious heart disease, but it will be worth the effort trying to change your lifestyle positively.

With regular blood pressure screening, you can avert a catastrophe and life threatening surprises by seeking assistance at an emergency room if you find that the blood pressure readings have hit the roof. Regular checks also help your primary care physician determine the best treatment approach and lifestyle changes that should be recommended to the patient.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Postcards from the culture war

When two wings of the Republican Coalition of the Willing collide in the culture war:

"Right-wing Christian groups are furious rap-rocker Kid Rock is set to perform at a youth concert to celebrate President George W Bush's inauguration.

"The die-hard Republican 'American Bad A*s' hitmaker is set to join clean-cut teen stars Hilary Duff and JoJo at the America Rocks Today: A Call To Service concert in Washington DC, organised by Bush's twin daughters Barbara and Jenna.

"Christian groups are furious Bush would allow Kid Rock to be associated with him, due to his profanity-laden lyrics, and his infamous line in 2001 song 'You never met a motherf**ker quite like me', sang, 'I met the President when I was half-stoned'."
Reminds of the famous Oval Office meeting (and a photograph) of Richard Nixon and Elvis, who also under the influence.

"Right-wing Christian groups" are, well, Christian and conservative; Kid Rock is vulgar, trashy and libertine, but nevertheless
a staunch patriot and a strong supporter of the war on terror and war in Iraq ("Who would you trust to make your decisions, Donald Rumsfeld or the Dixie Chicks?"). Yet another reminder of the creative tension between groups and ideologies that make up the "Right" in the United States, or anywhere else in the world for that matter.

Meanwhile, on another front of culture wars, singer
Seal disses rappers for their sexist attitudes: "It's sad when you see the rappers on TV and in the videos making these derogatory videos towards women ... kind of like sexual objects." The money quote:
"It's so sad because we're damaging our own. Like, in different cultures, you would never see that. Take for example the Jewish culture. They've been persecuted just like the black people, right? But you never see them eating their own. They don't. But we will. I really feel that there is a responsibility and what goes around comes around."

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Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Warming us up

In the Guardian today, Patrick Wintour tells us that:
Ministers and the country's leading electricity companies are expected today to finalise a £1bn plan to improve energy efficiency and help cut soaring fuel bills.
Last week, Wintour wrote of Gordon Brown's plans following his climbdown on fuel payments:
The prime minister still hopes to tout the programme as worth £1bn
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Thursday, February 28, 2013

My Growing Boy: Month 7

Saturday, January 12, 2013
This boy is ON THE MOVE!
During this 7th month of his life, Luke has been getting faster and faster... at crawling that is! He started crawling on his belly last month and this month he has just gone full force. We have had to be really careful watching him and making sure he doesn't get into anything. I have mentioned this before but my kids are POLAR OPPOSITES! Natalie didn't really get into anything. In all reality she never messed with cords or outlets... NOT THIS GUY! He is into EVERYTHING! I can just tell that he will start walking earlier than Natalie did (11 months) and will be "up and at em'" VERY SOON!

Here you can see his RED hair coming in (Finally!)
He is still eating the main grains, fruits and veggies on a daily basis. During his 6 month check up the doctor mentioned starting to feed meats and even try giving him juice. Our pediatrician in Oklahoma told us to NEVER give juice until 1 year but Dr. Prohodia seems pretty aggressive and said to go ahead and offer it to him. I will trying both of these this coming month.
He is still taking numerous naps throughout the day (Anywhere from 2-3) and sleeps about 10-11 hours at night. He traveled to Arp with my mom and dad this past month and while there he slept 12 hours (I guess they wore him out) but usually he sleeps from 8:30pm to 6:30am. He has started Mother's Day Out Program and Day school this past week and is adjusting to nap times and schedules. I think this daily ritual and routine will help him get more and better sleep!
WOW! This boy is ALL OVER THE PLACE! He is crawling on all fours at an alarming pace! He is across the room in record time (Seriously). I cannot believe how quickly he has picked up crawling. He started really crawling (All 4s) at 6 months and 27 days and hasn't looked back since. He will chase Natalie and the dogs all over the house! It is really cute. However, he has seemed to be getting into more things than Natalie EVER did! He will go straight for the cable cords or the computer cord and just last week I saw his little brain working and wondering what the outlet was. I think I am going to have to get a move on baby proofing because with this child, obviously, I am going to have to be very careful!
He is on his changing table trying to figure out how to get down.
Silly Boy!
He is so very active and wants to be moving at all times!
This is perhaps his best "Personality" picture to date! This really portrays Luke!
Once again, this month has passed by WAY TOO QUICKLY and he is already in his 8th month of life. It seems like only yesterday I was in the hospital bed holding my new precious baby boy! Now... I am chasing him! I am SO BLESSED!

God is Good... ALL THE TIME!

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Monday, 25 February 2013

How Sequestration Could Hit NASA Projects

Across-the-board budget cuts due to hit March 1, if Congress doesn't make a budget deal, could quickly impact NASA's technology work.

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NASA Mars Mission: No Little Green Men -- Yet
NASA Mars Mission: No Little Green Men -- Yet
At NASA, tech projects will be among those hit by the across-the-board budget cuts scheduled to hit federal agencies if Congress does not move to stop sequestration by the March 1 deadline.
According to a letter sent to the Senate Committee on Appropriations earlier this month, sequestration will cause the cancellation or de-scoping of a number of tech projects, including the possible cancellation of a deep space optical networking program.

Sequestration could also cancel the Deep Space Atomic Clock, NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program, and some work on autonomous systems, and would include $51.1 million in cuts to NASA's science budget.

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An Angel from the God of Angels

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. (Mal 2:7)

I have been meditating on this profound little verse a lot lately. I have experienced some of the outworking of it in my job lately. It is becoming more and more common for people to come to me for advice, information or insight relating to the problems (job related) that they are facing. In one incident just this week, a colleague was tackling a problem which had been unsolved for several months, and after struggling for a few hours, she said to herself - "I know what to do. I'll ask Chris!" And to her delight I was able to solve the problem in a couple of hours.

Now you may think, "What has this got to do with this verse or the role of a priest? Surely this is just because you are good at your job." Maybe, but I know the one who gives gifts and abilities to men, and has the power to raise them up or to bring them low. I believe that it is God's will to raise his people, like Solomon or Daniel, to positions of prominence so that they have a reputation of being able to solve difficult problems, to give good advice, and to be able to help when no-one else can. "From his mouth men should seek instruction."

This is where the role of the priest comes in, because I believe that this is caused, not just by a God-given excellence in our employment, but because we have stood (as the Old Testament priests did) in the presence of God. Just as in the case of Daniel and his friends, although it was the Babylonians who trained them, their learning and skill came from God - not just spiritual learning either, but learning in the secular literature of the Babylonians!

"God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom" Dan 1:17

You see, if we have stood in the presence of the Lord, then when people come to us for instruction we will have something to say. Whether it is on a spiritual matter or a secular one. It is the same God who created both realms.

When Jeremiah brought the world of the Lord to condemn the false prophets of his day, one of the accusations against them was that none of them had stood in the presence of the Lord to see or hear his word. When Gabriel announced himself to Mary, before he told her that he had come to bring her a message, he gave his qualifications to bring that message: "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God" It is those who have stood in the presence of the Lord who are qualified to speak on his behalf.

This last case got me thinking about the last part of this verse: "for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts." As you are no doubt aware the word for messenger is the same as the word for angel. And Lord of Hosts: "Jehovah Sabaoth", means God of all the angelic multitude. So we could also read this part of the verse as:

"For he is [like] an angel from the God of angels"

When we have stood in the presence of the Lord and go out into the world with his words on our lips we are to the people we meet like an angel from God. Never is this so much so as when we hold out the greatest knowledge of all: the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Kev C said...

Chris this is wonderful and recently I too have had small instances like that you've described at work. Hadn't thought much if anything about them other 'Hmm, starnge' but now I can see where thisis coming from. Thanks as always for your insight.

Anna Sacha said...

challenging post chris!


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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Growing up as Transgender

I’m a computer engineer so by nature I construct and fabricate ideas into material things. Pulling information together to create a cohesive solution is what I do best. For years, however, I never put together some of the seemingly disparate components of my own life in relation to understanding who I was really was and am.

As a child growing up, I was constantly reminded by my parents that I was a boy and not a girl. Toys which I played with of my sister’s were taken away. Doll houses I played with mysteriously disappeared, stuffed animals were thrown away and the pages from the girl’s section of the Sears Christmas Wishbook with the items I had circled and longed for were ripped out. I never voiced that I was a girl but I felt I was somehow not like the other boys. I didn't have a word for who I felt I was back at that age.

When I was given a train set, I became immersed in the possibilities of creating my own world through a model railroad empire. It was a fantasy world of my own creation and an escape from the real world I had to live in. The real world in the early years was awash in social awkwardness and a constant yet sublime uneasy feeling of living in the wrong gender. It was a quiet world of libraries and books, of science fiction and fantasy and of realms beyond what I lived and endured. It was beyond the realm of a dominant, emotionally distant and unevenly tempered father and a submissively passive mother. It was a realm beyond the lack of friends my socially stigmatized persona held.

Building the homes and businesses for my railroad empire was the boy’s manifestation of being able to have the dollhouse back that he once played with. The train itself, circling peripherally around the town was an imaginary means of escape from an emotional abyss I lived much of my socially withdrawn life in. It became even more of my escape into my ever expanding empire in our family basement as, one by one, the girls in school I was good friends with and with whom I confided in daily at school, began to separate from the boys. Even my best friend, Susan, who used to come over to my house each day where we would either play house or concoct new skin care cosmetics stopped coming over one day explaining that it was no longer right because I was a boy and she was a girl. I remember that day as if it were yesterday and I retreated further into the world of our library and my studies.

In the ensuing years of Junior High School, my parents began taking me on weekend trips up to my grandmother’s former summer home which she bequeathed to my parents upon her death. Here, in the relative solitude of the woods of Central New Hampshire, I would take respite from the anxieties of school and of life. The cottage sat high above a river with a view extending out for miles to distant mountains. I grew fond of the quiet and solace the woods surrounding the house brought and would often set up a tent in the woods, beneath the towering blanket of white pines, to sleep overnight in the peace of the outdoors.

It was a time to reflect and to write.
It was a place without social awkwardness and without judgment.

It was a place that didn’t care what gender I was and in this respite, I took mental solace.

College years brought with them weekend adventures to hike the mountains and forests of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. I would, with a good friend, hike many of the higher peaks to grand vistas and distant views – and to bask in the solitude and respite that only the mountains could offer me from the torment which lay deep within my own soul. I would hike for hours – eight or maybe ten with many miles of ups and downs. I would wear my own body down to the point of physical exhaustion in exchange for a mind that I could numb to the world around me in the very simplicity of the task to complete the hike. It was singularity of purpose with an obtainable goal, a goal which in my own personal life I could not obtain. The hiking was physically grueling and exhausting but promised me a forthcoming night of untormented sleep as its reward – one without the nightmares and thoughts which resounded within my near sub-conscious, barely held at constant bay by the logic of reasoning which suppressed them down.

The logic of reason, the physical escape of hiking, the mental escape of the creative world of my model railroads – all of these were the means by which I was able to suppress and suffocate the voice of the woman within. Each year became a battle to find new ways to keep her down. At times she would try to surface and I submitted myself to her for a few short hours by allowing her to see herself as a woman - only to undress and to bury her once
more into the pit of my soul. A combination of guilt and of longing would awash me, to which I would quickly retract to plan another physically exhausting adventure to numb my mind’s voice.

Two years ago, we decided to move to New Hampshire and to find a house in the country. I had had enough of the social stresses and of having to play the role I had to force upon myself daily in life and at work. It had been my self imposed responsibility and duty to play someone I was not. The woman inside me praised my ability to play this role by doling out anxieties and frail nerves to the point I could not exist to play the part any longer.

We had visited Alaska twice in the years prior and I had fallen in love with the grandeur and
splendor of the wilderness and of the solitude that was offered in abundance there. I had considered to move there and was speculating real estate outside of Fairbanks. But in reality, I knew this would not be realistic with both our families and for our jobs. We then turned our eyes back to New England and searched in New Hampshire, looking in the far northern reaches of the state. Joanne and I found a beautiful Log Home in Colebrook on 16 acres and high up in the woods at the end of a dirt road. The view from the living room window looked out across the sloping green fields and into the nearby rolling mountains of Quebec, Canada. In the end, this too was an exercise in fantasy as we realized there was no way we would be able to maintain our existence with any ease in such a remote location.

We settled on the Lakes Region of New Hampshire where we purchased a home in a quiet and rural town with less than a thousand people. It had no post office, no convenience stores nor even a gas station, but still was within an easy 20 minute reach of stores and services in any direction. It was here that after a year I was able to realize the full scope of why I was here and what I had been distancing myself from. The Trains, the hiking, the travels and the move to rural New Hampshire were all part of my way to run away from the one thing I could not run away from and it was the woman inside me who could not be quelled, quieted or calmed.

Working from home gave me the time to slow down and really think. Thinking and reflecting about myself was never something I would allow myself to do prior. The danger’s of the Medusa within the Pandora Box of my inner soul would then be given the opportunity to be heard. My frequency of cross dressing increased, from
bi-weekly to weekly and then to daily. I never stepped foot outside the house for fear and the thoughts that I would
never be able to pass as a woman in any event. And then one night, while dressed, I had a complete and utter nervous breakdown. I broke down and cried and
could not stop. Mascara and eyeliner were running down my face, I sobbed in despair with the frustrations of a lifetime pent up and suddenly released. The woman inside had broken free and I had not the energy nor the means to confront her and to suppress her one more time. I was finished and she had won.

I sat and talked to my wife and explained as best I could what was happening. I worked back through memories and pulled out many photo albums which contained pictures taken during my childhood. I looked at each one carefully. Facial expressions, poses for the camera - all were examined. I asked Joanne to look through these as well and to independently come up with her assessment of what she saw.

It was the poses, the way I stood, the way I looked, the way I had my hands on my hips. The looks of sadness or that look of being a million miles off in space when the picture was taken.

Some of the pictures from the teenage years, she said, showed a deep depression. She was right.

It was all of these things put together.

She said she saw, in all of these pictures, an unhappy little girl. Only in the pictures taken prior to puberty did we see smiles on my face and then… no more….

We both realized at that point what we would talk about next.

All of those years that I had professed to myself - had professed to HER that I was simply a cross dresser and enjoyed the clothes - was simply not an accurate representation of the whole of who I really was and really am. It was a false admonition unto myself to placate the woman within and appease her.

I told her of the stories next.... stories of growing up and sitting with the girls in class and avoiding the boys. Watching the girls grow and then leaving me alone without friends in a playground at recess - no longer part of their

The little girl next door, who, until age 12, would come over my house where we would play pretend games - some days it was playing cosmetologist and we would concoct cosmetics and face creams from items already in the house. I explained to her how she had come over one day to say that it was no longer a good idea for us to be as close friends as we were and I was lost again.

I told her about the doll house that I found of my sister's that I played with for a few weeks at about age 8. It was my father who took it without warning one day and when I asked, said that it was not acceptable for boys to play with
doll houses.

It was the music I listened to. The bands, groups, lyrics and the general themes of each. It was the books and hobbies I immersed myself in to console myself in my own world. It was stories of fantasy, science fiction and the escapes they allowed me. I was given encyclopedias for children which I read cover to cover - ALL of them. By Junior High, I was already versed in every science book in the library from grammar school and many from the local library. I realized in college taking some of these courses for credit, that I had obtained by that early age, a first
college semester's knowledge of astronomy, geology, meteorology, electronics, environmental science and physics. I was building my own telescopes, building radios and soldering together other circuits on perf boards from parts at Radio Shack, developing my own B&W photos. I was writing stories and poetry. I had immersed myself in everything I could to avoid the one thing I could not learn and understand, and that was my own self.

It was revealing to put the pieces together - no - it was a revelation...

I fully realized that evening that I was never just a cross dresser and that I had been showing all the traits of a very repressed girl growing up.

I was transgender.

But this revelation left me feeling empty

Why did it take this long up to this point for me to realize all of this? How well I hid this from myself. I had all of the pieces to put this all together but I did not. No... I WOULD not. I had believed that any problem - ANY problem
could be broken down into small enough finite components such that any person could comprehend the solution. I realized then that I had kept the secret of myself FROM myself. I had all of the pieces but I had failed to put them back together to form a coherent solution.

How amazing is the human mind to be able to craft a means to hide the solution it has come to from its own self. And so now with clarity of understanding, and
a verse from the Moody Blues “Tuesday Afternoon” playing in my head, a new chapter in life begins to emerge.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Tagline Tuesday: Rejecting Destiny

The idea...I'll share a quick tagline from one of my books. It could be about the book, the series, or even about one of the characters. I plan to have fun with this throughout the year. Hopefully, you'll like the tiny glimpses into the story lines, too.

I've been playing with the cover blurb for the upcoming book, Rejecting Destiny, book #3 in the Through the Veil series. One of my partners in crime, Amanda, suggested that this line would make a good tagline for the book...so I stole her idea for this week's tagline.

I'll be sharing the full story description (and cover) for this book...SOON!

Kelly Apple and Amanda Shofner are playing along, so go check out what they've come up with this week...

  1. It is an EXCELLENT tagline! Amanda is smarrrrrt! (and so are you for writing it!)


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Hundreds - or maybe dozens - gather for 'Muslim March on Washington'

From DCW50 TV

Despite the extreme heat, hundreds gathered on the National Mall on Saturday for an hours-long rally called the “American Muslim March on Washington”.

The event, organized by American Islam, was held to speak out against terrorism, hate and violence.

“Muslim have a strong stand against violent extremism. That does not represent their religion, does not represent their community, and we as a community are first victim of violent extremism. Daesh, ISIS, Boko Haram, and everyone have killed many Muslims, more than anyone else,” said Imam Mohamed Magid of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), one of the speakers at the event.

This was the largest "crowd shot" available of the event online.

This was the largest "crowd shot" available of the event online.

The rally was an interfaith one and leaders from several other religions joined in the condemnation.

“It’s raising the level of awareness that there are people who are in solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters and that we care and that we will not sit by silently and let our neighbors by maligned in that way,” said Joan Bell-Haynes, Co-Pastor at the United Christian Parish in Reston, Va.

Organizers hope that through events like this one, negative attitudes towards Islam will change.

“People will learn that they don’t have anything to fear from the Muslim next door, from the Muslim who works at the next door, or the Muslim down the street going to the Mosque,” said Robert Marro, a board of trustee member at ADAMS.

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Power Up Your Platform Like A Pro & Become Better Known Now

March 28, 2015

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Are you tired of feeling confused about what platform means?

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These days, many professionals jump into social networking without a clear platform plan on hand. This usually costs them more time and energy than the experiment is worth.

The most expensive mistake I see is when pros hire web designers to do their thinking for them. This can cause delays and frustrations that are totally avoidable with a little advance understanding. Before you turn platform decision-making over to anyone else, I hope you will take this course and see just how easy and attainable platform progress actually is.

Avoid membership in the platform do-over club. This course will help you understand, once and for all, what platform means and how it indelibly affects your businesses productivity and prosperity.

I have been training creative professionals to find and grow their platforms since 2006. I have written three traditionally published books and hundreds of internationally popular articles and posts on the topic. I’ve inspired thousands and taught multiple courses and workshops. Most importantly, I help creative professionals go step-by-step from no platform to a prosperous platform.

You can benefit from my years of experience growing my own platform and coaching others to do the same. I know how to simplify complex concepts and how to guide you to set up your platform to prosper in the short run and for years to come.

I will talk you through five colorful and entertaining short videos and offer you five downloadable worksheets to help you identify and leverage your platform strengths.

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Good, Bad Or Strange: How Are Concert Fans Behaving In 2010?

By the end of 2009, we had gathered up a very entertaining group of concert characters for our best (and worst) concert fans of the year list. So now that we’re half way through 2010, it’s time for a quick mid-year check-in so you can share your own funny, strange and inspiring fan sightings you’ve seen so far this year.

I still remember all the great fan moments we highlighted in last year’s fantastic list.

And, yes, I do have my own working list of picks for 2010’s that including some Drake rioting and Slash tackling fans. But I’ll share all my picks later.

Right now the floor is yours to share, celebrate and rant about what you’ve seen so far this year.

Seen any Dancing Guys, screaming ladies, rude fans, super creative fans, hilariously nerdy fans?

Or maybe — as noted in the safely covered up above photo by Colleen — you’ve seen some naked fans joyously dancing in the warm summer sun, like the ones we saw at Rothbury last year during Matisyahu’s set.

Whatever and whoever you’ve seen, we’d love to hear it. And we invite you to share your funny or strange fan stories in the comments below.

Want to use just a picture to tell your story? Upload it to the Live Fix Facebook page and drop a quick description. You can also send the photo to and we’ll post it on Live Fix for you.

Have fun and we look forward to hearing your stories!

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