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It is a Gift to be Called Ruth
Aunt Ruth, my great aunt, lived down the street from my grandma and grandpa in a town I used to describe as, “I mean, like, totally SMALLER than Mayberry.” For most of my life — and most of my mom’s,...
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Here I Am; I’ll Just Keep Going
My first action this morning — the last day of 2012 — was to curl tighter in bed and attempt to win the daily game of Pretend-to-be-Sleeping-Until-Andy-Feeds-the-Cats. I lost. He feeds them about 80%...
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Old Women Power
My grandmother in her mid-eighties volunteering at a school. Remember what Whoopi Goldberg supposedly told her family when she was a child watching Star Trek? “I just saw a black woman on television;...
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Repost: Collecting Voices: 3 Insights On Money That Changed My Life
Nearly thirteen years ago I was out with one of the Michaels. (Every unmarried gay man or woman over the age of 40 has enjoyed more than one Michael.) Though most of the details of our short and...
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First Snow (Revisited)
If I had my very own personal Ghost of Christmas Past, there is one night I would revisit: the night my family helped two men from across the world settle into their new home in the United States....
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Farewell, 2014
Dear Readers, I have a handful of year-end pieces in development–one on peace, one on perspective. Always, there is Project Gratitude to update. Although it thrives in daily practice, the act of...
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Repost of True Love: One Decade Later
I want to blog and yet after eight years of churning out content, most days it seems I’ve said it all. So here is a piece I wrote in May 2012. It feels apropos as Andy and I plan our wedding. I hope...
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Repost of “Constantly Temporary”
My niece is in the final countdown of her senior year of (gulp) college. She wrote to me this week expressing her desire to savor as much of these last weeks as possible. It reminded me of this post I...
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No Words, Yet
One month ago today, my long time partner and I stood before our family and a few of our friends and held hands. We spoke traditional vows. We cried and laughed and hugged and slid rings onto...
View ArticleGratitude: Summer 2015
Many days I list at least one (sometimes up to six) distinct thing(s) for which I’m grateful. The list is usually archived monthly; although, July was our wedding month, so things were unusually busy....
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