Family, Identity

The Price of Freedom

November 27, 2025

Regular readers and visitors to my various social media accounts (these days I’m primarily on Insta) know that my husband and I are working to move to Canada. As I’m a Canadian (actually, dual) citizen [read more]

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Pink Triangle Day 2025

January 30, 2025

What (if anything) do you celebrate on February 14th? For some the day is just another corporate-driven excuse to spend money; as the credit card bills from last year’s Holiday season are coming due. There [read more]

Politics And More

Remembrance Day

November 11, 2020

Originally published on 11/10/2009 The Armistice that brought an end to World War I (“the war to end all wars“) went into effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. [read more]

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Early Morning Thoughts 3

July 26, 2013

Yesterday I celebrated my 55th birthday. Actually at about 4:30 yesterday I completed my 55th year here on Earth and started my 56th trip around the Sun. This morning, as I contemplated the next half [read more]

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Pink Triangle Day 2013

January 10, 2013

Celebrated in Canada [unofficially] since 1980; Pink Triangle Day is dedicated to honouring love in our lives. As Harold writes at PinkTriangleDay.com, “Pink Triangle Day was never intended to be a gay/lesbian copy of Valentine’s [read more]

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Nearly Straight

March 23, 2011

Another of my essays for a college-level English class; this one addresses the new image of gay men in mainstream media. You can read it as a pdf file here. It builds on some themes [read more]