It was my sophomore year in high school.  She was a zillion feet tall, looming large and so brilliantly skinny.  She did a million things at once with relative ease, going between dance practices and band performances with all the energy of a fireball.  She even had time left over for… Read full post »

Hey, North Carolina... What would be the reason you would deny gay couples all of the rights, even, of gay marriage?  You already had a ban on gay marriage in the first place, but to add insult to injury, you banned domestic partnerships in all forms.  And you allowed a popular… Read full post »

It's been since 2008 that I've had problems with my eyes.  They've jutted back and forth over a landscape I'm not too focused on like an impressionist painter just bringing the landscape to life in the first place.  Since then, I've lost vision in my left eye three times to varying… Read full post »

Sitting in the middle of a group of 20 or so relative strangers aside from my microbiology professor, in my head I'm praying the rain outside continues.  The teacher of the Community Emergency Response Team training at our local Emergency Management department is hoping that we get out into the… Read full post »

I went back to school with a goal in mind.  I'm going to get in, learn, and get out with a degree that will be of use to me and that I will enjoy for years to come.  I want to be a nurse.  It's a field that's ever in demand,… Read full post »

Surburbia (n):  residential areas that exist on the fringes of larger cities, usually of the quick-build by an individual developer, same style, straight-street type, with or without cul-de-sacs (extra points with them, though!); a great place to raise children, build fences from nosy neighbors… Read full post »

I had a dream last night my partner cheated on me.  Not just cheating, even.  She brought the offending party in our house, then laughed in my face WHILE cheating on me.  I tried to slap the offending party, but my partner just kept laughing at me while my slaps were… Read full post »

"Does anyone have any advice for lowering interest rates/minimum payments due on credit cards?"

A question by a friend of mine on Facebook, directed to all of her 250 or so "friends."  Several had replied with things that will not work in this environment, one had replied with a for-profit "debt… Read full post »

We say goodbye to him this upcoming week.  He was cremated with his kippah, his remains will be laid to rest in a cemetary in a small town east of here.  He'd struggled since he and his husband left for their cruise with osteosarcoma.  He refused to die in the hospital,… Read full post »

A judge in Aransas County, Texas, William Adams, beat his 16-year-old daughter with cerebral palsy over downloading pirated music and games. He hears cases frequently over the fitness of a parent to take care of children, yet he was videotaped by his daughter flinging a belt at her multiple time… Read full post »

I've been closely following the "Occupy Wall Street" protests with fervor and wonderment.  It's been somewhat of a restorative to my faith in people to organize and protest, and somewhat of a detriment to my hope that we're being honest with one another.

I read through a… Read full post »

For as long as I can remember, anyone I've ever told even bits of my childhood serial to have wondered how I didn't evolve into a drug-addicted petty criminal.  They've looked at me with a blank stare as I've shared my secrets of child abuse, neglect, and emotional trauma over the… Read full post »

Imagine your formative years having just one side of the story.  My mother never really told me much about my father except when she was forced to pony up.  His mother and father saw me three or four times (for appearances, you know), I knew where they lived in the same… Read full post »

I stayed with my grandparents a lot as a kid, and I'm sure that's what made me as sane as I am today.  I was born in the 80s, which was about the time that TV was becoming the babysitter du jour.  My grandma and grandpa had a video I'd been… Read full post »

I don't quite remember when I started smoking, but I never thought I'd become one of "those smokers."  Those smokers being my mother, who smoked a pack a day, who ran to the gas station every morning, who smoked in bed to avoid the smoker hack, who threw her butts out… Read full post »

She was a woman who smiled back at me when I smiled at people in the hallways at work.  She was a woman who worked arm in arm with us in a department that you're constantly getting people who are more than likely mentally ill screaming at you, calling you names,… Read full post »

When I was 20, I got my first tattoo.  I had been wanting a tattoo for a long time, basically ever since my first body piercing aside from my ears at age six (my tongue).  I got several piercings and took them out each time, assuming after pictures… Read full post »

In the past few days, my previous blog, "I'm not all that proud, really" has been up at Salon.com.  Due to this, I've had the opportunity to read 91 or so comments about myself, my blog, my thoughts, and my opinion that I didn't know were accurate, I didn't think about… Read full post »

June is upon us, and with that brings several things: the beginning of summer today, starting to harvest the spring-planted vegetables, and gay pride month.  

I'm always really conflicted about what is considered gay pride.  Pride, when taken at its standard definition, is "a feeling or dee… Read full post »

Father's day is around the corner again.  Once again, I'm faced with the epic battles of missing family.  I sent emails off to the real father I never had and got no reply.  An email to my real father figure would also go unanswered since emails to heaven get an undeliverable… Read full post »

I challenge everyone that reads this or has favorited me to do this to help each other learn a bit more about who we are as people, as bloggers, as individuals outside of the screen we read.  It's simple--ten things that everyone who knows you would be able to say about… Read full post »

Today I heard Yesterday playing on the radio at work three cubicles away.  I happened to know the fellow involved in the musical selection for our area and shot him an instant message celebrating his musical taste and asking him if it happened to be a/… Read full post »

In a previous blog, I mentioned that I was on a path to losing weight.  I have overcome some barriers to how I view food as nourishment instead of a reward or as a way of relating to myself that I have value.  I have come to terms with the fact… Read full post »

It all began as a real concern over the bathroom stall I frequent most at work.  It made me angry that someone peed on the seat.  It wasn't just a little tinkle--it appeared that it was an all-out miss with no attempt to (I quote my mom on this) "be a… Read full post »

Music has always been a strong emotive force in my life.  It has been able to soothe me to sleep at night, wake me up in the morning, keep me from getting fired, and help me through tough decisions.  For this reason, it has become necessity over the years to "break… Read full post »