February 26th, 2007

Gay bashing / Hate Crimes / Homosexuals and the Holocaust

Gay bashing still happens.

Gay bashing still fucking happens.

Andrew Anthos was 72 years old and riding a Detroit bus.  When a passenger found out Anthos was gay, he followed Anthos and beat him to death with a metal pipe.  He was the second man killed in Detroit in the past year simply for the fact that [...]

February 26th, 2007

How old is Grandpa?!

I got this e-mail forwarded from my father. My reply follows.

“How old is Grandpa???

Stay with this — the answer is at the end. ……. AMAZING!!!!

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events.
The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and [...]

February 21st, 2007

Catching up / Sports mumbo jumbo

The past two weeks have been a blur.  I’m not a person who likes to have a million projects going on at once–three makes me happy–and lately I’m having to balance a lot of things.  The worst part is, I can’t talk specifics at the moment.  Let’s just say that some of these are projects [...]

February 16th, 2007

Personal tragedy

How to react when someone shares some deep personal tragedy that has formed them as a person?  A dead relative, mother or son, or some other horrible thing in the past for which I have no point of reference.

I never conceive of these things when I meet people… I suppose I just assume that everyone [...]