I went to Pride Alive to volunteer for their Tuesday night gigs. It was good to see Andy and Jodi and be around queer folk but I didn't really talk to anyone new. Glee was annoying, too much musical drama...
job hunting can be so annoying. I am keeping positive, it is just that it gets so tedious!

I am at an ugly hotel in Chicago waiting for the shuttle to take me to the airport for my final leg of this long journey to the Twin Cities ( Read more... )

Out of the tear of Laxmi or Kuan Yin rain came down and flooded all despair. Fish swam up the stream of life and jumped into the air to fly and fly and fly just so they could say hi to the butterflies ( Read more... )

When I was 10, I lived in Guatemala with my aunt Pelan. I attended a Salesian school where i won several writing contests. My aunt would check my spelling and would add punctuation after I read my pieces. I felt so intimidated by all the little dots and accent marks and grammatical structure. I wonder what it would have been like to acutally have ( Read more... )

Dreams
To lead retreats for gay men once in a while
To be surrounded by art
To work with kids
To live in community and feel connected
To have great health
To continue to travel once in a while
To keep my relationship
To be financially healthy
To have great friends

Living in India is fun. I just wish the pollution and noise were not so intense!

In the span of one year I have traveled a lot ( Read more... )

I spend less and less time on livejournal.
I don't see the appeal of twitter and I now have a blog about my writing and sketching progress.
In how many ways do we get connected?

www.nilsheymann.com is my new blog. I will be writing about my journey as a children's book writer and my experiences in India.

I feel butterflies in my tummy ( Read more... )