Check out this story of Thomas Beatie.
He was born a woman, but is now a transgendered man. And he’s pregnant!
Back in the day of side shows, Ringling would have paid a fortune for this!
Life Without Limbs March 28, 2008
Because he has no hands to shake, he asks you to hug him.
Just because he has no legs, it hasn’t kept him from traveling the globe and spreading a very important message.
Think your life is hard? What if you were born with no arms or legs? Check out this story…
Is My Baby Gay? March 28, 2008
Tonight, 20/20 did a story on the possibility that being gay is due to genetics. Scientific studies are being done on gay brothers in search of the “gay” gene. The best part of the story was the families they interviewed, a few parents of gay children who sincerely believe their children were born that way.
One mother believed her son was gay since he was 3 years old. 20/20 showed clips of their family videos of the young child nancing about in a world of pretend where he always wanted to play King and Queen. His mom always had to be the King! Sure enough, he’s twenty now and gay.
Another kid also knew from an early age that he liked boys. At 13, he leaned over in class and told a girl he was gay. “Cool,” she exclaimed. So, he went home to tell Mom. “Okay, dinner will be ready in ten minutes,” his mother answered. Mom believed it was biologically. She had her husband, and one day, her son too would be with whoever made him happy. At 11, this young guy had searched the internet to find out what made him gay, but there was no answer.
WOW! I only wish there was a book or a computer back then when I was 18 and first came out to my Mom. Luckily, I had already had the support of many friends in school who were gay too, but I was a senior in high school when I first told Mom. She wanted to deny it as being true at first and forbid me to tell anyone else. She wanted to pretend I’d never told her. But time changed all that. She is much more accepting these days, and the rest of the family knows now too.
That was a hard time for me back then, and I can only imagine how it may or may not be for kids coming out these days. Kudos to 20/20 for giving this story new light!
I want my POD! March 28, 2008
The POD (print on demand) industry has been rocked with the news that Amazon.com has started bending the arms of POD Publishers to force them into using their sister company, Booksurge, for printing or they won’t offer their books for sale directly through Amazon. PublishAmerica has already been hit and the BUY buttons of their books on Amazon have been taken down. POD review sites like Podpeep and Lulu have already started voicing their opinions, and I hope POD authors will as well.
POD authors always looked to Amazon as their #1 online marketing tool. As a POD author myself, I jumped at the opportunity Amazon gave me by selling signed copies of my book at my own set price right on the same page where Amazon sold my book. Amazon also gave me my own blog on their site which would show up right on the page where my book was and then promoted it to those who purchased my book so they could keep up with me.
My book’s publisher, Xlibris, has yet to be affected by this move as far as I know, but who knows what’s to come. I personally hope this will be a poke in the eye for Amazon as they try to monopolize this industry. Hopefully it will send readers somewhere else…into your local physical bookstore, perhaps? As for POD authors, our one friend has stabbed us in the back and so our search for a proper nitch in the market continues. We’re like stray dogs and cats on the streets. Some have room in their hearts for us. The pounds are full of us. But most (readers) just don’t really care. POD books are usually overpriced, most poorly written or edited, and now we’ll be hard to get!
