001. Out
I blog on several other sites, but this will be the one where I deal with more “sensitive” subjects from the comfort of my anonymous chair. So here goes. I am many things. An artist. A composer. A...
View Article140. besot
I have an almost preternatural affinity for getting into situations that make my relationships fantastically and needlessly complicated, and in particular, falling for guy friends who turn out to be...
View Article181. dilly
This afternoon a friend of mine posted an article from the Guardian about the top five regrets people have as they come to die. As an atheist who doesn’t believe in any kind of afterlife and that each...
View Article221. gibbosity
At our last session, my therapist said something interesting at the end: “We need to find your inner nurturing parent.” I’ve been thinking a lot about that the past couple of weeks. We’d been digging...
View Article238. caustic
The examined life may be admirable, but it can also be pretty unlivable, too.
View Article268. deliquesce
This past Sunday was my mother’s birthday. Her 65th birthday, to be exact. Unlike many gay men, I don’t have a particularly close relationship with my mother. Ironically, of all our immediate family...
View Article273. factitious
That first night when we sat on the trunk of my car and looked at the lights above the Arby’s? When I got up to leave, I looked at you, and I tried to think of how to say everything I was feeling. But...
View Article277. affable
The spring semester started up again last month and thus I haven’t had much time to write recently. First, to my readers outside the United States, things are truly surreal here. For the 74+ million...
View Article006b. story part iii
So apparently a few people were concerned about my state of mind after reading the McDonagh story. Rest assured, I am not depressed or suicidal or anything. I chose to begin with that because of the...
View Article014. fear
Tomorrow I watch another of my friends get married. Walk down the aisle, join her life to the man she wants to spend the rest of it with. And I guess I’m genuinely happy for her! For so long I...
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