Author: geohrinj

I realize that one of the great challenges of my life has been to appreciate that I am “here” and to not worry about being “there”. I have a nearly all-consuming preoccupation to be “there” and of course when I

The picture I have chosen to remember for this Story Telling topic was one taken over Thanksgiving weekend in 1992. At this holiday we were at a property owned and operated as a B&B by a couple named Joan and

I have never had a horse in my life with shoes or without. I am aware of the game of horseshoes but this is something I have never played despite growing up on a farm. We never had horses and

The phrase “a piece of cake” usually implies something that is easy or simple and often even pleasant to do. Often though when this phrase is used in regards to many different tasks the reality turns out to be something

A personal role model is someone whose behavior you admire to the point where you might actually try and emulate it and hopefully use it as impetus for creating change. Chelsea Manning is that queer person for me these days.

I have for years dreaded being described as ‘normal’. As queers we are really anything but normal whether we like it or not and I truly believe that this is our greatest gift. There is that old Chinese curse “may

Angels, specifically my own Guardian Angel, were certainly part of the mythology foisted on my innocent little head in my early years at Catholic Grade School. The mythology being laid on us actually reached at times the absurd when we

I have written many times over the years in this group about men and women who have influenced me. The men of course include Harry Hay and Jerry Garcia to say nothing of really countless gay brothers. In hindsight and

I have always had a very active “dream-life”. It is hard to actually measure this for sure but it seems that at least half of my sleep is dreaming. These would be the dreams that I am aware of or

I have fortunately never really experienced terror certainly not in any sustained fashion. Anxiety about something or the other that progresses to what I guess could be called a ‘panic attack’ has certainly occurred in my life but even that