Jo Ann Ellison On August 14, 2020, GLAAS member Roberta Dunn shared her experience as an LGBT-rights activist and transgender woman at a special members-only Zoom event. Roberta and her wife of 36 years moved to SaddleBrooke last year from Charlotte, N.C. She retired to Charlotte after a forty-year career in the computer/telecommunications industry. She…
Eileen J. Snearly With all golf events and luncheons canceled, the MountainView Preserve Lady Niners Niners do get out for golf. What a relief to be able to see our golf friends and yet maintain social distancing. Pictures were taken recently when golfers arrived at the Preserve Golf Pro Shop.
Stuart Watkins What is an African sulcata tortoise you may wonder? Well, most people call them tortoises, or big turtles. Angela Burton raises them, and does other things that keep her busy, such as hiking, making her own lip balm, her own natural deodorant, and teaching an on-line art-mixer course. Angela started NatureKind seeking a natural-based…
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg It was time to get my hair—ahem—colored again. So, I visited a nearby salon. When I walked into the cramped salon the owner was busily tending to a customer. He casually turned to me, sized me up and down, and said: “Do I know you?” I said that he had given…
Becky Kueker My daughter once said to me, “Mom you are not like other women.” I was so pleased it took me a while to understand she did not mean it in a good way. I was always a rule breaker. I grew up in an era where there were a much more defined set…
Stuart Watkins After driving into my garage, shutting the garage door, asking my wife if she had checked the mail, and when she had not, I went out the front door. To my surprise I saw this poor lizard stuck underneath our garage door! Of course, I called my wife, went in to get my…