I went to the GLBT help site I wrote about earlier today. This may be a good resource; however, I didn't see anything saying any mental health professional was available to callers or e-mailers (peer counseling was all I found). Phone volunteers are only available afternoons and evenings during the business week and for a few hours on Saturdays. I hope the ad in The Advocate helps expand those hours.
Also, they have two physical locations - San Francisco and NYC. Not really an issue as there are toll-free phone numbers and e-mail. I hope with the increased use of the service that perhaps the phone system can be expanded to permit others to volunteer by phone or on-line from anywhere in the U.S.
OK - it just sounds like something I'd enjoy doing for a few hours a month and I'm quite a ways away from either locale.
Trip 'round the blogosphere AGAIN ?!?: OK, aside from Randy's Blog, for which I can't be very objective as he's a good friend of mine and he is always challenging my thought process, there are two "must read" blogs these days: The Mudflats and Jesus' General (I'll make sure both are listed to the left).
Mudflats, as always, is a very insightful and well written look at politics in the "small yet large" state of Alaska and with a recent VP candidate from Alaska chatting for over 9 minutes on web video, there is so much to write about.
Jesus' General has devoted the last few posts to a unique outpost of organized religion here in the U.S. I cannot stop laughing and I have never visited, via the postings, an ultra-conservative church's website and its connected blogs so often in all my time on the 'net.
Enjoy !
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