The audience laughed at all the right moments. And there were plenty of laugh moments! Now I can confidently say: Come see my show this weekend!

Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street, Harvard Square; Friday-Sunday, June 15-17, 7:30 PM; free

My beloved thorbol always said that a marriage existed between us for some time before the church ceremony. But it was 17 years ago today that we proclaimed our love and commitment to the world (or at least as much of it as was present ( Read more... )

I very much want to see the new Eddie Murphy movie, "A Thousand Words". There was an audio-described version at Fenway last week, but it's not there anymore. thorbol and I had been planning to go today, unaware that the audio-described version would be gone. I'd been looking forward to relaxing with some comedy after a fairly stressful week ( Read more... )

Blueberries are one of the things I look forward to about summer. Not only are they delicious, but I'm sentimental about them: when I was growing up, we would sometimes visit my aunt, who had a farm with lots of blueberries. Of course you can get them all year long now, but I'm certainly not paying $2.50 for a 4-ounce package ( Read more... )

I thought I was going to have to give up voice lessons indefinitely, since we can no longer afford the school at which I'd been taking them. But one day in December, while I was at the Paulist Center, I overheard a voice lesson going on in the hall below the chapel. I found out that Brandon, the cantor at the Saturday evening Mass, gives lessons ( Read more... )

Today, as usual, I caught up on LJ a couple of times and commented to several people. No comment notifications appeared in my Outlook inbox ( Read more... )

At the end of last year I got to the point at which I hadn't posted for so long that there no longer seemed a good place to start again. Any re-starting would have been very abrupt, and much would have been left out. Well, none of that has changed, except for the calendar. The new year is a completely arbitrary time to pick this journal up again ( Read more... )

There was one other time in my life when I experienced the year's first snowfall on October 27. It was 1988, and Oct. 27 was also on a Thursday. And I was in St. Petersburg. Yeah, it was called Leningrad back then ( Read more... )

In fact, I'm mostly spending it prepping for the Drag Gospel Brunch that's going on Sunday at FCS.

I'm performing the Nina simone song, "Feeling Good", which I persuaded the event coordinator to let me do. I'm also doing an Amy Grant song, "Sing Your Praise to the Lord". Spending a lot of time today with my karaoke tracks. Later thorbol and I will go ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow's my birthday, and I want presents. But you don't have to buy them ( Read more... )