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Canadian Citizenship Ceremony
A friend of mine happens to be a film maker, and he happened to be at my Citizenship Ceremony. As a result: https://youtu.be/NGuVYa7Aajc/
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Cub Scout Terminus
I don't much like going through my childhood memories. Too many times, I stumble across something deeply upsetting. Lately, a hoard of such reminiscences has been storming my consciousness, and the best way for me to work through them is to write them out in my blogs. I just recently tripped over this one, and with it came all the anger, ( Read more... ) -
A Golden Surprise!
Interesting. I had no idea I was a member of the Golden Key National Honour Society, and have been since 1992 (which was probably my junior year at Georgia Tech). I found my invitation in that old pile of paperwork I've been going through, e-mailed them to see if maybe I'd accepted, and surprise surprise, I had! -
Birthday Wishes
I've become fairly fierce in guarding the sanctity of my birthdays. But then, so are others in my biological family, so I don't feel particularly guilty about this behaviour. Since I've been alive, I'm the only person in my immediate family to have had it erased off the calendar in favour of others' priorities. Just off the top of my head I know ( Read more... ) -
Closure
I was first sent to a psychologist by a loved one after an unpleasant encounter with an acquaintance of ours. The acquaintance was under a lot of stress, and I don't believe that he was aware that he was taking it out on me. Given the circumstances, I couldn't respond the way I wanted. Instead, to keep things calm and peaceful, I agreed with ( Read more... ) -
Ancient Anger
Moving from a two-story house with a full basement to a 1,075 square foot apartment is a lot of work, especially when you stubbornly don't allow yourself the luxury of renting external storage space. We've been making "should we keep this" decisions in priority order of greatest space reclaimed per time to make the decision. For instance, at ( Read more... ) -
"Blast" from the Past...
I've been weeding through stacks of paper from what now seems like lifetimes ago, and I came across a letter from my mother from near the end of our "Gay Wars", which I publically wrote about this past National Coming Out Day. The goal of that post, and also of this one, is to try to give the younger generations an idea of what that they do *not* ( Read more... ) -
Disproportionate Disappointment
It came as a surprise to me to discover that the people closest to me, who cared the most about me, perpetually feared disappointing me. If something that I was looking forward to didn't happen, regardless of reason, I would become extremely disappointed and sad. So much so that it would also sadden my loved ones, especially whomever had to bear ( Read more... ) -
Haircut Fun!
That was the most amazing haircut I've ever had ( Read more... ) -
Okay, that worked a little *too* well...
At the moment, Jim has very little control over his right hand and arm. Obviously, it's important for him to practice using them so that maybe he can get some use of them back. To this end, I came up with a little ploy ( Read more... )
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