For many years I’ve left the “interested in” field of my Facebook profile blank. Today I switched it to “men and women ( Read more... )

secret_keep asked: "How do you identify yourself? What do you pour yourself into that you find happy and healthy?"

I initially responded over on Facebook, but I wanted to keep the answer here, too. ( Here's what I said. )

Last weekend was Alchemy 2013. It was the seventh Alchemy, and I’ve participated in all but the first. That marks five years of massive personal growth for me, and more than any other annual event it’s been Alchemy that has consistently situated that growth in an immediate context where I can directly feel it happening. It’s been a stable marker in ( Read more... )

I originally wrote this over on Google Plus, where I have far more conversations these days than here. I felt like it belonged here, too, though.

I spent some time this morning reflecting on my experiences growing up in Montgomery, AL, face to face with deeply-even violently-embedded race, class, and gender norms, elephants in the room that nobody ( Read more... )

Gender’s been on my mind a bit for the last year or so. It’s always been a bit of an awkward topic for me, but lately I’ve been spending some think-time trying to analyze why. I think the narrative of how it’s surfaced is interesting in its own right, but I’ve tried to write that once or twice now, and it always seems to get bogged down and ( Read more... )

Standard apology for updating so infrequently.

When last we heard from our intrepid hero, I’d just accepted a job at Emory Libraries. Well, in fact I’d been there for several months when I posted, but my post only included up to about May-ish. Of 2009.
( But at least it’s been good-busy )

So I know I’ve never been the best at keeping up with posting to LJ, but this year I’ve actually had good reason. You see, 2009 has been insane. ( Insanely busy, to be precise. )

OK, so I’m not entirely caught up on everything yet, but I wanted to make sure to get this out. My birthday is Tuesday, and the party is Sunday the 16th - two weeks from today. Anyone who knows me and wants to come wish me a happy birthday is invited. Yes, that means you as well as any SOs you care to bring along.

As in past years, dinner is at ( Read more... )

I’ll have a real update soon, I promise. Life’s been absolutely insane for the last three or four months, and it’s finally calming down. As it’s calming, I’m taking a little much-needed relaxing time, and I’m spending some of that time catching up on True Blood.

This post is not about the show as a whole. There’s no time for that. It’s sorta about ( Read more... )

Most of you have probably heard the rumors by now. Well, they’re true: radiantbaby and I are moving into town. Like immediately. This weekend we’ll be moving ourselves - along with bed, computers, and other necessities - from our old house in Cumming to our new house in Clarkston. Any help anyone can offer would be much appreciated, and reimbursed with soda ( Read more... )