Family, Identity

My Current Identity

December 17, 2012

My name change (see #14 at 100 Details About Me) 31 years ago today wasn’t a way to distance myself from my youth so much as it was looking forward. Actually, there was a fair amount of separation involved; much of my youth was decidedly [read more]

Politics And More

Reflections on Taking School Pictures

November 20, 2012

This year I’ve taken a part-time seasonal position with a national firm taking pictures for student IDs and yearbooks in public and private schools here in central Ohio. Over the past three months I’ve photographed at least 8,000 kids ranging from pre-Kindergarteners to grade 12 [read more]

Poetry

Inspiration

October 21, 2012

I rarely attend Workshops or Conferences for Writers, even when I am not broke. For some reason I was inspired to attend the Writers’ Ink Conference (organization website no longer exists) held yesterday. The price was reasonable and the guest speakers included poets and authors [read more]

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LGBTITQQ2S

NCOD 2012

October 3, 2012

Two years ago in recognition of National Coming Out Day (October 11th in the US; October 12th in Great Britain) I decided to add my Coming Out story to the intertubes at another site of mine that has some poetry and stories. This year in [read more]

Designs I Like

The Death of Hyacinthus

October 2, 2012

My studies in Digital Photography at Columbus State Community College are almost done. In fact this semester I am not taking any photography or design courses. I am taking Writing For The Web as a Communications course along with courses in American History, Classical Mythology [read more]

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Brushing Fame

Pickerington Is A 4 Letter Word

September 29, 2012

Tonight I saw Paula. Performing, that is. Her stand-up comedy. Live on-stage at the gorgeous and intimate (only 588 seats) Lincoln Theatre. Paula is also gorgeous, although we were not intimate. Part of my excitement comes from the fact that I haven’t been to ‘the [read more]