Designs I Like

Book Bargain Bonanza

September 5, 2025

It feels as if I’m shaking up pretty much every aspect of my life. One part of that is my ongoing efforts in Reducing My Amzn Footprint. The following Digital Gryphon titles (Boutique books for [read more]

Poetry

In Pursuit of a Dream Revised

July 11, 2025

In Pursuit of a Dream, my small chapbook of poetry from the 1980s is out of print. Most of the contents of that book, along with 8 pages of selections written this century, are now [read more]

Poetry

Metaphor Dice

February 18, 2019

After receiving payment for a freelance assignment, I treated myself to Metaphor Dice. I’d heard about it a few different places. As their marketing material says, they “make the formation of metaphors as easy as [read more]

Poetry

2017 Pride Specials

June 3, 2017

June is LGBTQ Pride Month- And We’re Celebrating Save 40% on Digital Gryphon Publishing Poetic Publications   EXPIRED

Family, Identity

After The Bath

September 23, 2016

As a young gay man in the ’80s I was not only a regular patron of Toronto’s bath houses (“steambath” or “men’s health club“), I worked the overnight shift at one for a summer. Although [read more]

LGBTITQQ2S

Nimoy, Tovey and Stereotypes

March 2, 2015

Leonard Nimoy worked hard to escape a future limited by his being typecast as Mr. Spock; arguably the most iconic character from the Star Trek universe. He struggled to express other aspects of his personality, [read more]