I remember I was just beginning to stir, preparing for work as Steve had just arrived home a short while earlier. In those days he worked graveyards and we'd have just a few short minutes between my leaving for work and him returning home to see one another, cuddle a bit on the couch, and get on with our days ( Read more... )

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This is my entry to the 'It Gets Better Project'.

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Confession, they say, is good for the soul. So here's my daily confessional ( Read more... )

(subtitled: "Because it can't all be navel-gazing and mortality.")

When you're stuck at home with a head/chest cold there's certain modes of self care you can undertake that are immediately gratifiying; amongst them is cooking something tasty, soothing, and healthy!

I'd had a spaghetti squash sitting in the fruit and veggie bowl on our counter for ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I stepped away from journaling as often during the past four years was due to the near-overwhelming depression I faced following first the death of our dear friend Bob Sporrong and then the building stress of my work with my previous employer which culminated in my layoff last springI was a fresh 40 year old, queer, bearish male ( Read more... )

11am on a Thursday morning in June ( Read more... )

41 trips around the sun, a 42nd trip just begun ( Read more... )

I haven't been journaling at all for the past six months while I adapted to my new job and began exploring social networking via facebook. I really missed the process and benefit of taking the time to document my thoughts and capture portions of my life so this is to serve as a reboot of that habit ( Read more... )

About six weeks back I was laid off from an agency that I'd worked for as a volunteer and staff for nearly 15 years.

Three weeks ago I interviewed for a Youth Outreach Specialist position with our LGBT community center (Wingspan) and their Eon Youth CenterA week ago I interviewed for a second time with their Executive Director, a former ( Read more... )