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They say do what you Love, so here I am with my 2 cents worth.  I’ve always wanted to say what I really think, so YOU dear readers are the lucky firsts to reap my sometimes funny, and always unique musings, ramblings really.

Hello LADIES!  Hello…Hello….  Are you out there?  Anywhere?  Starbucks?  The Library?  The Mojave Preserve?  Chish!  Now that I have your attention, I thought I’d throw out a few ideas in an effort to establish some COMMUNITY!  Remember? A PLACE we all used to go, such as a local women’s bookstore?  Current information was posted on a bulletin board and we could sip coffee, read the latest lesbian mystery novel, or our own local newsletter telling us what the haps were for the month?

The idea was tossed around a few months ago then literally disappeared.  Someone thought there might be some interest in forming a group just for the ladies, for the sheer enjoyment of getting together and doing what we all do so well, talk, bake, make plans, build dreams and CAVORT.  There, I said it!

I’d like to give it another try, something along the lines of a monthly mixer, get together,

Howdy Doody, or old fashioned Coffee Clutch.  Is anyone else interested in forming a group of local lesbians to take on the challenges of living in a rural area?

Why don’t YOU send YOUR ideas for our local desert denizens and see if we can reinvent the wheel for a ladies meet and greet?

I’d really like to hear your thoughts, especially since we may not have this newsletter to keep us up to date.

Contact me, Lez N. Dez , at rt.renishe@yahoo.com.

Pinnacles National Monument
April 30 to May 2
Hollister, California

Join us for the 3rd Annual Lesbian Summer Camp at Pinnacles National Monument. A fun weekend of women, camping, hiking, playing in the swimming pool, & music by the campfire. Think of it as Dinah Shore goes camping.

‘Pinnacles’ features the spectacular remains of an ancient volcano that rises out of the chaparral-covered Gabilan Mountains. Massive monoliths, spires, sheer-walled canyons and talus passages define millions of years of erosion, faulting and plate movement.

Cost: $40/woman. Reserve now; event has sold out every year.

For more info or to reserve email: jamyrson@hotmail.com.

YUCCA MESA—When Virginia Wolfe published, A Room of One’s Own in 1929, the idea of a woman managing to support herself and afford her own room seemed ridiculous. The start of a new decade offers an opportunity to reflect on our past and consider future. Gains that once seemed impossible to manage now appear within reach.

How fortunate we are, women of 2010. Not only can we manage a room of our own, many of us manage homes on five acres! I love my place on the Mesa and the pristine desert here. It is my heaven on earth and a far cry from my native Glasgow, Scotland.  I’m grateful for my life here, the friends I have, and those I have yet to meet. I welcome these cold nights and the warmth I find inside.

I was thrilled to host the Thanksgiving Friday Potluck Gathering. It was gratifying to meet so many gay girl and boy neighbors. It changed my impression that we can’t manage an integrated gay and lesbian community in the hi desert. Without exception, all who came were friendly and very interesting. Many of us shared feelings of empowerment as we listened to Phyllis Lozano’s presentation on statewide preparations to win back our equality. There’s much to look forward to at this dawn of a new decade.

I’m a nurse down the hill plus attend Cal State San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus, for my Teaching Credential.  Returning to school and preparing for the future are satisfying.  I encourage fellow lesbians and gay men to do the same . Building up ourselves individually strengthens our community as a whole.

Promise to join the next community gathering and I promise you will draw strength from it and have fun too.

January’s Thought:  Live each day; Laugh out loud; Love tenderly.

Love & Peace,

Lena McSkeane

Contact Lena at: Lenamcskeane@msn.com