Family, Identity

The Price of Freedom

November 27, 2025

Regular readers and visitors to my various social media accounts (these days I’m primarily on Insta) know that my husband and I are working to move to Canada. As I’m a Canadian (actually, dual) citizen I can sponsor his application for Permanent Resident status up [read more]

Family, Identity

All Hallows Eve

October 28, 2025

Hallowe’en is well-known (at least in my world) as a Big GAY Holiday that has all the celebration of modern gay pride parties without the direct connection to our painful history. That’s not meant as a criticism; there’s plenty of evidence that celebration (laughter and [read more]

Family, Identity

Prenatal Trauma

July 31, 2025

This post is part of my demystifying and de-shaming what Mental Health struggles might look like. As always, details that might reveal as yet untold stories of other living people are vague or vanished; this is only my story. There are a few posts here [read more]

Brushing Fame

Paul Williams Redux

June 21, 2025

This morning I listened to Paul Williams being interviewed on the Paul Leslie Hour. That’s a link to youTube although I downloaded the traditional podcast version. Sharing it on my Instagram stories I mentioned that I always listen/read any interview with Mr Williams. I added [read more]

Family, Identity

I Did A Thing

May 31, 2025

A few weeks back I sat down with K of Lost Spaces Podcast to talk about a “lost queer space and the impact it had on me.” Their podcast episodes generally spend more time talking about each guest’s Coming Out journey than the individual establishment. [read more]

Family, Identity

Too Many Quirks

February 1, 2025

For decades I resisted having “too many quirks” and put up with far too much mayhem in my head. All our clothes hangers are being sorted into 3 piles. White, Black, and All Others -which includes a few metal ones and some with significantly different [read more]