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Regarding the refused ad for Crossed Genre's LGBTQ issue (I am late to mention, but I was on vacation!), tacithydra has an excellent round-up of links on the issue here. Personally (and shallowly) I don't see how anyone could reject an ad with such awesome art, which was, incidentally, the cover art for issue #7, which has my story "Our Lady of the Mantilla" in it. 
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Regarding that vacation, I will post some pics tonight-ish. But to sum up: beach, sun, cool breeze, sweet air, I saw baby whales!!!!, pelicans, rest, rest, rest, walking, swimming, hot tub, scrabble, good food, lots of love. Priceless. And extremely lovely and rejuvenating. I am full of yay and thank you.
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Regarding other things: rain! loft reassembled into liveable space! cooler mornings!

Malibu

Just a small batch of pictures this trip. I finally captured my mother in her natural habitat:







Click on that one and up to the gallery to see the others.

I have a short video with some brief glimpses of the baby whales at the beginning and near the end, along with a very large pelican, but I've never tried to upload a video to my lj and I'm not sure how...