The posts to this section of the website are for the most part recent musings on life as I am experiencing it in my sixties. The themes explored are most often prompted by participation in the SAGE Story Telling Group I attend on a weekly basis at the GLBT Center here in Denver. The Story Telling Group has provided the much-needed discipline I require to put ‘pen to paper’ to use an antiquated phrase! The writings of many in the group, including mine, are posted weekly to the following BlogSpot – check it out (via this link)
The themes explored in these pieces are I suppose a bit repetitive but at this stage in my life I am not nearly as adventurous as I was forty or fifty years ago. I do though still find enough juice in the arenas of my HIV infection, part-time work as a nurse – now most often in Urgent Care, the current sad state of the world, LGBTQII politics and life in general to continue spewing forth my thoughts and observations on it all.
- For Sure
- My Lover’s Chair
- Scream
- Epicurean Delight
- Sustaining Light
- Pickles
- Sunshine
- Saving the Planet
- Cruising
- Resolve
- Walking/Migration
- Loss
Previous Works:
- Competition
- When I Decided – to Become a Nurse
- Boredom – My Evolution With the Erotic
- Favorite Literary Character
- Forbidden Fruits
- Lavender University
- So Many Roads – A Great Performance.
- Shopping and Drinking
- Where was I in the 60’s.
- Anger
- Reframing Reality
- Wisdom
- Pushing The Buttons – Denver Pride 2014
- John Burnside – Sweetness Personified
- Drifting
- A Circle of Loving Companions
- Clothes
- Being Gay Is…
- Believe it – Death Started at the Big Bang!
- Reputation
- Terror – Homeless in Winter
- Dreams
- The Women in My Life
- Angels
- The Norm
- My Favorite Queer Role Model – Chelsea Manning
- A Piece of Cake?
- Horseshoes for the Homeless
- A Picture to Remember
- Here and There
- Aw Shucks
- Self-Acceptance
- Rejoice
- Birthdays – Capricorn to Sagittarius
- The Solar System
- My Happiest Day/Leaving
- Setting Up House
- Hunting
- Mark Thompson
- Movies
- Choices
- Public Places – Hail to the Watch Queen
- Strange Vibrations
- The First Person I Came Out To
- Grief
- A Looming Wrinkle?
- Moving.
- Once In A Lifetime
- Where Do We Go From Here?
- Queer – a Defining Word
- True Colors
- The Men In My Life
- Purple
- Queer as a $3 Dollar Bill
- Raindrops for the People!
- My LGBTQ Hopes for 2017
- The Recliner
- Where I Was On 9/11
- MAPS
- Connections
- Resist
- Sorting It Out
- Don’t!
- Anxious Moments
- EVIL
- My First GLBT Acquaintance
- I Don’t Know…
- Journaling in the Age of “Dick Pics”
- School/College
- Hooves
- Finding Your Voice in the Dark
- Tears
- Rolling Thunder
- Clearly
- Empathy
- WHEN I PLAYED SANTA CLAUS
- My Favorite Childhood Hero
- Birds
- Losing Touch
- Utopia
- Running Away
- I Call Bullshit
- ESCAPE
- When I Knew
- Springtime and Suicide
- The Truth Is…
- A Teenage Crisis
- Pet Peeves
- Pridefest
- When I Identified
- How Religion Has Impacted My Sexual Identity
- If I Could Change My Sexual Identity
- Eye of the Storm
- Deal With It
- Now or Never
- Plan B
- Sexual Fantasy
- I Am A Widower – More Than Once
- Sunday Afternoon
- A Compelling Idea – Gays As A Minority
- Scared Out of My Pants
- Nightmares and Hallucinations
- Fast and Slow
- Growing Old
- Get Out of Here!
- Siblings
- Even Now
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Over Again
- Compassion
- Touch
- Unlucky
- Learning For Which I Am Grateful
- Dirt
- My Collections
- 5280
- Circle Jerk
- Plastics
- The Hike
- If I Could Do It All Again
- Sugar
- Crutch
- Wind and Fire
- Under the Table
- Group Life
- Hair
- Young and Restless
- Never Ending
- Control
- Letters
- Bring Together
- TMI
- VOTES
- Masks
- Autumnal Joy
- Clock
- Viruses
- Irritation
- BALM
- When I Activated
- WOKE
- VODKA
- SAND
- Breaking the Ice
- Namesake
- Strangers in the Night
- Bread
- Awakened