Walhydra recently nicknamed one of her characters "Venus of Willendorf" and included an image of the prehistorical sculpture.
Walhydra wrote:
[Dr. Bob's] daughter-in-law had that wonderful Venus of Willendorf shape. It was a shape which represented for Walhydra both the most comfortable and the most awesome form of Goddess power.
Just recently, Walhydra stumbled upon the following image by Ben Heine, which she couldn't resist sharing:
Delightful!
Well, Walhydra and Hubby Jim are going the long way around, step by step, to make each other legal...no thanks DOMA and that wimpy, people-pleasing excuse for a liberal, Bill Clinton, who signed it.
Walhydra won't repeat her whole marriage rant, since you can find it here.
Even so, Walhydra says she resents having to find a lawyer, pay $600, and go through weeks of gyrations for two sets of six documents, in order to even approximate what any two heterosexual fools can do cheap with a license and a justice of the peace...even by accident.
Anyway,...yesterday morning, sometime around 10:30 am, Walhydra and JimJim met in front of their lawyer and two witnesses and each signed a Last Will and Testament, a Letter of Escrow Instruction, a Durable Power of Attorney for Property (and a backup, in case the designated attorney-in-fact is incapable of acting), a Health Care Surrogate Designation, and a Living Will.
How romantic....
Feeling a bit safer now, nonetheless, since they can take care of each other in hospital and inherit from each other, Walhydra says, "It still doesn't count as marriage."
She and Jim became a couple in 1985.
They were married under the care of their Quaker Meeting in 1994.
But they are still having to look for and plug loopholes, one by one, in order to protect each other as a family.
Feeling somewhat like the surly librarian she usually is, Walhydra instructs her readers to do their own research, for a change:
"Look up all the benefits that married couples get in your own municipality and state, as well as all the Federal benefits. Don't forget about all the retail discounts and give-aways and other special offers for married couples. Look it up!"
Meanwhile, Walhydra is happy. She and her Sweety are getting cuddlier by the minute.
And vacation calls.
Blessèd Be, despite it all.
In the latest episode of "Walhydra's New Year's Eve Eve Party," Walhydra tells very briefly the story of her first love...and, in more detail, what keeps drawing her back to Hubby Jim.
Walhydra and her hubby are now getting ready to escape to the coast of Maine for a week. She thought it would be fun to post her favorite picture of JimJim as a way of filling the gap in her blog till she gets back.
Ain't he sweet?
Oops!
Walhydra goofed in June when she published “The seduction” as Part 7 of this story. She just discovered that she skipped an intervening chapter, “The concert.”
Here it is, continuing the revision of a serialized adventure Walhydra first published on The Crone Thread in 1996.
Part 7: The concert
Blessèd Be.
Ain't he sweet?