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Excuse me, there’s a ghost in my vodka
This Easter marked the sixth year that we celebrated without my grandfather. Every year we miss him, and it doesn’t seem to fade with time. This year we were sitting around the lunch table, eating our...
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Being Gay in a Hetero-Normative World
I didn’t “come out” until I was 33. I was married with 3 children and living the normative dream. The perfect husband, perfect children and perfect little life. But I was unhappy and I didn’t know why....
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Kids and Dealing with Death
It’s been a tough few days here. Our dog died. We have had him about 8 years. We got him from an animal shelter. He was already an adult dog when we got him. They weren’t sure how old he was. They...
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The Night He Died
Trigger Warning: This is a recount of the night my Grandfather died. For those of you who knew him and don’t wish to hear this or who are easily upset by recounts of death please stop reading now. I...
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On the precipice
I feel like I am standing on the precipice of life, looking out into the abyss. But it doesn’t actually scare me. I have always lived on the edge of the fabric of the world this way. It used to terrify...
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Dissolving Myself
Start out as a nice fat drop, Full and round and ready. Fall, tumbling down into a pool of water. Break the surface, sink and then rise. With each dip come back smaller, As pieces are left behind. The...
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On Heart, Hope and Why it Matters
I have had some set backs recently. I am being forced to move house. I am unsure how I will pay rent, or where I will live. I have 3 kids to house. I am sorting through that mess as best I can. I do...
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What do you bring to the equation?
Lessons in self. That’s what I’ve been living through lately. I feel under a lot of stress and pressure from all directions. I am starting out on this whole new life and that brings with it a whole lot...
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And then there was you
This is a difficult post to write. It is difficult because of the emotion involved. It is also difficult because sometimes there are things for which words seem inadequate. But nevertheless I shall...
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Kubla Khan – A Farewell
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.” I thought, inside my mind, locked in the depths of...
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Bath is the new blanket fort
I am writing this in the bath. It has become my new blanket fort, just as orange is the new black. So we all know that I have this title… My life is in upheaval still. I am single again. I won’t be...
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