Out
I came out about my sexual orientation to my mother today. It started when we were talking about one of my friends from college. “You… Read More »Out
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my earliest introductions to the concept of formal non-monogamy
1998: On my own at UMass Amherst for the summer, I make friends with a hippie gentleman in his late 50’s (a jazz violinist) who… Read More »my earliest introductions to the concept of formal non-monogamy
Losing Control
Having safe sex with women can be pretty tricky. Oh, the condom! Why must you be so inapplicable to my efforts to sex up the… Read More »Losing Control
afternoon nap
I took a short nap this afternoon during a break from work and had a dream that I was playing the piano, a piece in… Read More »afternoon nap
I have a pressing need to talk, and yet I’m terrified.
Silence disturbs me. I grew up attached to the hip of a mother who chattered incessantly. Mostly to me, sometimes to herself, often into the… Read More »I have a pressing need to talk, and yet I’m terrified.
I don’t like being compared to other people.
When I was in the first grade, my teacher had a poster on the wall of our classroom she had made titled “King of the… Read More »I don’t like being compared to other people.
The Messiah Complex
1. Just about everyone else in my family is Catholic (except for a few crazy uncles we were never allowed to associate with except for… Read More »The Messiah Complex
Today Nintendo, Tomorrow the World
1988: My grandmother woke us in the middle of the night. I saw her standing there in the hallway in her velvet bathrobe looking quite… Read More »Today Nintendo, Tomorrow the World
I’m the hyper, nauseatingly precocious kid in all the snaps, wearing an evening gown at the breakfast table, correcting my mother’s grammar in a Grover… Read More »
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