I just got off the phone a little bit ago with Bob, my BMFF (Best Male Friend Forever). He told me the progress on a documentary film he is making about 9/11 and about the part that his personal idol, Mark Bingham, played in it. For my part, I told him… Read full post »

Yeah, sure you don’t have any money, are going to get your car and house reposed, and have no health insurance, but it could be worse!

Luckily, you don’t have one of these Top Ten Jobs I Wouldn’t Want!

Job #10 - Waitress W/ Experience

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From heroism, unsullied by childish taunts of “queer” 

(Mark Bingham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bingham)

to ones filled with sadness and pride

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I imagine I am going through what my kids will, when they start in their new school.  They will be the “New Kids” and will feel kind of isolated and sad until they start making friends.

That’s how I am with this new house right now.  We sure aren’t BFFs… Read full post »

Our house is no longer our home.  With Amy hugging me tightly and tears streaming down my face, I signed the last papers a little bit ago.  I hope it gets as loved by the new owners half as much as I loved it.

It was my pride and… Read full post »

The moving company will be here this morning to begin dismantling my world.

They are going to wrap each individual piece of my life in last week’s newspapers, load it into their truck and drive it away.

They, undoubtedly, will ohh and ahhh over Amy’s garage full of powe… Read full post »

I am SO lucky to be moving to Iowa!

Yup!  Lucky, lucky me!  I get to leave the horrid sunny beaches and nasty old mountains of Southern California for the fertile, flat fields of Iowa!  Yeah, lots and lots of flat fields… 

Soon, not only lots and lots and lots… Read full post »

Last week I attended a PTA meeting with my friend Dorthea.  She is a black, single mother who has kids the same age as mine.  After the meeting, we were talking and she said, “Girl, I’ve known you for a couple of years now and you’ve always had those god awful… Read full post »

*Snerk*  I'm still laughing about this article.  The quotes are just too good!    

Man claims he found condom in French onion soup

Later on this morning my daughters and Amy are going to walk in the San Diego Pride Parade. They are going without "Mom". I can't make it this year, but Amy is going to take both of their little hands and they are going to walk for all of us.

My/… Read full post »

I grew up on a farm in the Midwest.  Like many farm kids, I could drive a tractor, plow a field and backup a triple gang of hay wagons well before I had my drivers license.  To make me even more of a hick, I was a cheerleader for my/… Read full post »

Dear SO,

I can't tell you how excited I am that you've decided to take up smoking cigarettes again! 

Mmmmm, that special aroma of burned plant matter in you hair and clothing... the cute little brown patina that will be on your teeth...  that wonderful taste of tar and nicotine… Read full post »

The comments by Pennsylvania State Sen. John Eichelberger (R) make me think of the words from an old Elvis Costello song, “I used to be disgusted And now I try to be amused.”  The problem is that I’m not laughing. 

When a sponsor of a Constitutional amendment to redefine… Read full post »

Do you srt8 folks ever wonder why us queer folk get so wound up about our “rights”?  Why can’t we just sit and wait for things to take their course?  If you do, I’d ask you to wonder about this statement, as well… 

“Hope and love can be terrib… Read full post »

I find it virtually impossible that any open minded person would even look twice at a movie like "Bruno," much less shell out money to go see it.  It is nothing more than a bunch of old bigoted, old Hollywood producers attempting to shill a segment of the public (once again), by… Read full post »