Why It’s Been Hard to Write
In September, I found a group. I joined Alex Jacob’s School of Trivia and quickly found a good group of friends. I had quit almost all of my online communities when I left social media. But to find a...
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My Country: Deference and Defense
“St John’s the Baptist Church, Church Road, Backworth” by Graham Robson is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Liberals are problematic. As one, I should know. Liberals forget the past and become indigent....
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When You See Yourself (or No Tuesday is Super)
I remember sitting at my desk in Riverwoods and reading the South Bend Tribune when Mayor Pete Buttigieg came out. Only a few years after I came out, a man about the same age as I did the same in a...
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
My best friend died last week. Virginia Carrion was my grandmother. I was lucky enough to have great grandparents. They were very caring and supportive. They wanted the best for me and all of my...
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Six Months Later…
In March, Brian and I went to Palm Beach, Florida for a quick weekend trip where he was going to preach at their Unitarian Universalist Church. We had a lovely hotel with a beachfront room. Although...
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Two Distinct Beeps
I carried the garbage can full of cut branches and torn-out winter creeper to the concrete patio behind our house. To use some of my PTO time, I signed up for a writer’s retreat since we were not...
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Christmas Letter 2020
Looking Out Our Front Door This is supposed to be funny. But very little about this year has wanted me to feel funny. I’ll try my best. All I know is Brian made me break the world. Late last year, he...
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My Country: The Declaration of Independence
“Inking”by daimoneklund is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Justice Douglas starts An Almanac of Liberty where our nation began – the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The process of adoption...
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Reading 1984 in 2019
After the 2016 election, I gave George Orwell a shot. I had read 1984 in college for my own enjoyment during the Bush administration to feel like a good liberal. But I did not remember too much about...
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My Country: Deference and Defense
“St John’s the Baptist Church, Church Road, Backworth” by Graham Robson is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Liberals are problematic. As one, I should know. Liberals forget the past and become indigent....
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When You See Yourself (or No Tuesday is Super)
I remember sitting at my desk in Riverwoods and reading the South Bend Tribune when Mayor Pete Buttigieg came out. Only a few years after I came out, a man about the same age as I did the same in a...
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
My best friend died last week. Virginia Carrion was my grandmother. I was lucky enough to have great grandparents. They were very caring and supportive. They wanted the best for me and all of my...
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Two Distinct Beeps
I carried the garbage can full of cut branches and torn-out winter creeper to the concrete patio behind our house. To use some of my PTO time, I signed up for a writer’s retreat since we were not...
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Christmas Letter 2020
Looking Out Our Front Door This is supposed to be funny. But very little about this year has wanted me to feel funny. I’ll try my best. All I know is Brian made me break the world. Late last year, he...
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Community: Why I Don’t Care About Your Ill-Informed Opinion
When I took the ham out of the oven, the potatoes had a bite to them still, so I turned the oven higher. I could see the cream and cheese bubbling, making them scalloped, whatever that is. I placed...
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Our Best Friend Max
When Brian said he wanted us to get a dog, I wasn’t sure. I love dogs. Always have. But they are a lot of work. And I did not know if I would meet one that met the standards of my dog, Buster. Max was...
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A Whisker, A Single Coarse Hair
Look at all those whiskers! Max had a lot of peculiarities. He would bark at a scrolling TV screen. He would forget that the frisbee we threw was his and would wait for the next one. And he did not...
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Paper Bag
A piece of short fiction – based on a prompt to examine place, setting, and story. The meeting ended and I took off my peadset. I learned back into my chair, looking at the clock. I had a few minutes...
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Stephen Sondheim
I didn’t know a lot about music before I got to college. I listened to Oldies 104.3 on the Chicago airwaves and had a bunch of cassette tapes that I copied from the library. The only Broadyway related...
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Christmas Letter 2021
At 4 o’clock in the morning, we sat in the parking lot of MedVet as a man, who just finished peeing ten feet from us, started flicking a fly-fishing reel back and forth. Brian and I had no idea what...
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