tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.comments2023-09-25T08:12:40.720-04:00Voyages en RosePetra Bellejambeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325233285694315036noreply@blogger.comBlogger1128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-9645125693037328992018-05-17T08:42:07.979-04:002018-05-17T08:42:07.979-04:00That Liesl story continues to enchant me. As you s...That Liesl story continues to enchant me. As you say, you could have spent a girly hour or two together and done this, that or the other. <br />It was Chekhov who said,"The golden moments pass, and leave no trace." <br />GAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-46555570066793947452017-07-22T11:04:00.471-04:002017-07-22T11:04:00.471-04:00Welcome back!
Things left unsaid? Perhaps a quick...Welcome back!<br /><br />Things left unsaid? Perhaps a quick survey of a dozen trans folk would turn up enough ammo for a coffee table book, if not a short TV series. If you're listening NetFlix.... :-)<br /><br />It's tricky isn't it? Well, IMHO. Are you honest and share your thoughts, making you part of the conversation, and able to be all of yourself? Or, do you wind it in, snub Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-71393544460058352302017-07-16T14:49:58.396-04:002017-07-16T14:49:58.396-04:00I think I squeaked a narrow escape once..
When I ...I think I squeaked a narrow escape once.. <br />When I was working, I'd have a regular visitor to my office - a slim 40 year old who could wear anything.. (there was some kind of minor flirtation going on on both sides to be honest).<br />This particular day, she walked - no, sashayed - in to my office and I think she managed to stop herself from doing a twirl by some superhuman effort of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-20029245265354444692016-06-03T09:53:36.344-04:002016-06-03T09:53:36.344-04:00Aah Petra,
You have a captive audience out here wh...Aah Petra,<br />You have a captive audience out here who are hoping against hope that you will resume "telling it like it is" in your own unique style.<br />I suspect that there's more than a few of us in ColdTurkeyLand who are hanging on by our very fingernails waiting for some of your finely-crafted descriptions of your life <i>en femme</i>. They give those of us less fortunate Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-59797533730676167162016-01-23T23:42:47.509-05:002016-01-23T23:42:47.509-05:00What a wonderful way to start the year, with one o...What a wonderful way to start the year, with one of Petra's delightful but rare and all too short essays on life, liberty and the pursuit of the perfect shoe. Your ongoing travelogue on the voyage of how to enjoy life and who you are. While still balancing between what we want and what we can manage in our lives. Well that story, your story continues to be an inspiration and a great comfort Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14341581439976937173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-76273475515945019662016-01-22T17:40:35.018-05:002016-01-22T17:40:35.018-05:00Ah, the wrap dress. How may I count the ways, in t...Ah, the wrap dress. How may I count the ways, in that you are fabulousness personified? Fitting and forgiving, long may you rein. No, you can keep your high necks, your bodycons and your fit & flare. I'll gladly go gracefully into classics with you. :-)<br /><br />On a personal note, a wrap dress was one of the first things I tried on and bought, shopping 'en femme'. I've Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-64500769635602566882016-01-22T17:19:33.247-05:002016-01-22T17:19:33.247-05:00Hi Petra! Good to see you writing again. I just ...Hi Petra! Good to see you writing again. I just found this post. It's about a month late, but I just featured it on T-Central.<br /><br />CalieCaliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280127011882954777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-41588008745057128122015-12-17T16:04:29.081-05:002015-12-17T16:04:29.081-05:00I read back through some of your previous blogs an...I read back through some of your previous blogs and got a smile when you were talking about Saturday night at Southern Comfort. It was several years earlier than what you wrote about but my wife always loved Saturday night at SC, riding down the elevator, the door opening and the two of us in our evening gowns holding hands strolling through the lobby of the Sheraton Colony Square. Wives and Beverlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06056328036248272582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-89235491501789578302015-12-17T12:18:48.331-05:002015-12-17T12:18:48.331-05:00Good to have you back, it seems to me that you sti...Good to have you back, it seems to me that you still have plenty to say and to share. I'm looking forward to more form you.Paulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12577631984995202146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-74063835494486771472015-12-17T12:14:36.497-05:002015-12-17T12:14:36.497-05:00Welcome back. Your voice is always interesting an...Welcome back. Your voice is always interesting and unique.<br /><br />I am glad that you are well. When you do not post for long periods we do start to wonder if things are well.<br /><br />Thank you for you being you and your getting out and about on a regular basis. I believe that every encounter that you have with the civilian world makes things better for the next person...at least in the Pat Scaleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00148601231866277374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-82568695615269250302015-12-14T16:44:28.192-05:002015-12-14T16:44:28.192-05:00Dear heart Lynn,
Thanks for the visit and note. I...Dear heart Lynn,<br /><br />Thanks for the visit and note. I have lurked a time or two on YATGB and think of you often. Can't say I have been a steadfast reader, but going by the gorgeous holiday party look, things must surely be fab.<br /><br />Never too late to discover the joys of sequins. You look smashing!<br /><br />Very Merry everything to you too :)Petra Bellejambeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15325233285694315036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-65518816130799753102015-12-14T16:14:59.723-05:002015-12-14T16:14:59.723-05:00Welcome back. I've missed your posts and thoug...Welcome back. I've missed your posts and thoughts.<br /><br />Why do we blog, or show photos to strangers? Various reasons, I'm sure. A few that sprint to mind are to try and make sense of it, or share and hope that someone can help us with it (blogging). As for photos and chat, I can only hope that it helps to make us normal. Not the desperate monsters the media sometimes dresses us as, Lynn Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00876715474502367377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-23905651384402475202015-12-14T14:48:49.682-05:002015-12-14T14:48:49.682-05:00Thanks m'dear! Feels good ya know!
:) - Petra...Thanks m'dear! Feels good ya know!<br /><br />:) - PetraPetra Bellejambeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15325233285694315036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-84484353579074909472015-12-14T13:50:21.485-05:002015-12-14T13:50:21.485-05:00Nice to have you back, Girlfriend!
StanaNice to have you back, Girlfriend!<br /><br />StanaStanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259788604423472207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-65295153677088936922015-04-03T05:10:13.193-04:002015-04-03T05:10:13.193-04:00I must have missed this marvellously perceptive po...I must have missed this marvellously perceptive post in my first frenzied read-through (a few years ago) of your thought-provoking blog.. <br />There are many components to the vibes that women give off and 'sound' is definitely one of them. In your uniquely inimitable prose you've absolutely nailed the magical swish of a tight skirt over nyloned legs.. and in doing so you've Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-60507265911658728222015-04-03T05:09:19.983-04:002015-04-03T05:09:19.983-04:00I must have missed this marvellously perceptive po...I must have missed this marvellously perceptive post in my first frenzied read-through (a few years ago) of your thought-provoking blog.. <br />There are many components to the vibes that women give off and 'sound' is definitely one of them. In your uniquely inimitable prose you've absolutely nailed the magical swish of a tight skirt over nyloned legs.. and in doing so you've Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-89071984326656717722015-01-31T05:11:56.119-05:002015-01-31T05:11:56.119-05:00I think there are so few of us in this community w...I think there are so few of us in this community who really 'get' what being a woman is all about.. <br />To me, acceptance by and friendship of another woman was an occurrence to be sweetly savoured. The interaction with women as a woman was what drove me and it was/is this that I miss so much now. <br />This explains why the elegance of your beautifully written adventures 'en femme&Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-34570734616100031032015-01-26T08:16:59.205-05:002015-01-26T08:16:59.205-05:00Darling Anonymous Friend,
Thanks so much for your...Darling Anonymous Friend,<br /><br />Thanks so much for your visits and comforting thoughts. Please accept my apologies for not responding earlier, and my assurances that the keys and the wardrobe are very much in tact.<br /><br />I do have a theme or two I want to expand on and may use as a platform for updating this blog on recent goings on.<br /><br />So out of practice though you see, and as Petra Bellejambeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15325233285694315036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-30980344371530179152015-01-26T08:01:48.150-05:002015-01-26T08:01:48.150-05:00PS And if, out of sisterly solidarity with Mrs B, ...PS And if, out of sisterly solidarity with Mrs B, you have thrown the key to Petra's wardrobe into the long grass down the garden, I'm sure you've had many entertaining internal ruminations on the subject of her since you tapped out your last elegant column here.<br />Yours is too observant and stylish a voice to be muted.. it needs to be heard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-51340916530022005462014-12-11T08:39:51.506-05:002014-12-11T08:39:51.506-05:00"I am just going outside and may be some time..."I am just going outside and may be some time." <br />http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-17269397<br />Reading your beautifully written blog was always a real pleasure and I'm hoping that your temporary exile has not morphed into something more permanent. <br />I went through a phase where I thought if I am going to dress, I'll do it as best I can - as so I did. However, it was like Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-56370899959573063982013-10-30T22:01:24.004-04:002013-10-30T22:01:24.004-04:00Oh, how I have missed your writing style! What a ...Oh, how I have missed your writing style! What a wonderful post.<br /><br />Mrs B must be quite the woman! You two have a beautiful, open relationship that should be a model for all.<br /><br />Please write more often, Petra.<br /><br />CalieCaliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280127011882954777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-74126261664515910482013-10-16T08:14:29.895-04:002013-10-16T08:14:29.895-04:00Me too! Hugs to J and you from us both.
Cheers - ...Me too! Hugs to J and you from us both.<br /><br />Cheers - PetraPetra Bellejambeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15325233285694315036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-57842953686276968122013-10-15T08:56:36.902-04:002013-10-15T08:56:36.902-04:00LIKE!LIKE!CyndiLouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14768222139357199133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-59449724387944230722013-10-15T07:12:13.877-04:002013-10-15T07:12:13.877-04:00Hey Pat,
Good to see you here. Grateful for the v...Hey Pat,<br /><br />Good to see you here. Grateful for the visit and nice thoughts. You hit it - I am fortunate.<br /><br />I am also reminded how much I enjoy the puzzle-piecing of a blogg post. Will try to treat myself to that more often. <br /><br />Cheers - PetraPetra Bellejambeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15325233285694315036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836498847560872101.post-32819706072571744852013-10-14T11:44:13.437-04:002013-10-14T11:44:13.437-04:00Petra,
It is always nice to find a new posting on...Petra,<br /><br />It is always nice to find a new posting on your blog. This post was really quite affirming. It shows that you are loved by your wife and that she has gone the extra mile to understand you. It also shows how much you love your wife.<br /><br />I do hope to see more of your writings soon.<br /><br />PatPat Scaleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00148601231866277374noreply@blogger.com