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Just A Matter of Time

The tenth Dr. Who (in the episode ‘Blink’) offered the following insight: “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect but actually from a non-linear non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly time-y wimey…stuff.” [Dr. Who] When I was young, time was a volatile chaos. I thinkContinue reading “Just A Matter of Time”

The Naked Holiday

It was raining in Sequim the morning Julie called, raining with the dank relentlessness of a sodden bill collector. The dog run was half under water, the slugs had downed a deer and were enjoying a gastropod banquet out by the pergola, and a heavy green carpet of moss clung to everything in sight likeContinue reading “The Naked Holiday”

A Small Act of Kindness

It was long ago in the early months of 1978. I’d completed my bachelor’s degree the spring before and was struggling to find myself and my direction. Lacking both confidence and friends, I was mostly a whiner. On that cloudy winter morning, I was walking toward the UWM campus with Jill, a singer who employedContinue reading “A Small Act of Kindness”

The Amazing and Versatile Limerick

I consider myself reasonably well-read. My fictional interests extend from Shakespeare to Kesselring and from Dickens to Irving and include the Brontës, Hardy, Mann, Hesse, and hundreds more. My nonfiction reading is equally eclectic if far less extensive, and I’m an avid consumer of The New Yorker and the Sunday Times. When it comes toContinue reading “The Amazing and Versatile Limerick”

Keeping to the High Road

I believe social media is a wonderful construct for humanity. Despite the misuses to which it’s often put, the opportunities for social interaction are profound. Social media has been a particularly powerful value-add in my life. It allows me to stay connected to family and friends far and wide in a unique and direct way.Continue reading “Keeping to the High Road”

A Gender Quilt

In my first post, I mentioned that the piece was adapted from a short essay that I wrote for inclusion in a book entitled “Breaking Out of the Binary: A Gender Adventure” that was published last year. It was compiled and curated by Logan Matlock. Logan took this on as their senior project in college,Continue reading “A Gender Quilt”

Spring Housecleaning

On the whole, I’m a tidy and well-organized person. Clutter makes me crazy and disorder makes it difficult for me to concentrate. Granted, while I am deep in the creative blood fever of a project, I might not notice that seventeen layers of artifacts have accumulated in my workspace. This includes both my physical deskContinue reading “Spring Housecleaning”

We Will Get There

NOTE: This is a rework of a piece I wrote in 2020 that was included in “Breaking Out of the Binary: A Gender Adventure” by Logan Matlock. The book was published in June, 2021. I first started dressing up when I was twelve. To put that in perspective, it would have been around 1966 orContinue reading “We Will Get There”