In my immediately previous entry, I described a dream in which I was the superhero brother of The Incredibles‘s Elastigirl, but in that posting I didn’t detail my own superpowers. I noted that during this dream, I had remained aware at some level that I was, in fact, dreaming; my superpowers actually were impacted by […]

Strange dreams last night. In the one from which I eventually woke, my father was still alive but had called me into his bedroom to tell me privately that he’d been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and had only four to six months to live. He had important information about his finances that he wanted me […]

We had a jam-packed weekend, about which Jeff posted partway through, providing a glimpse of our basic itinerary. Friday night, as he noted, we saw Chanticleer in concert at George Mason University’s Center for the Performing Arts. They were, as usual and as expected, nearly flawless (with only the very first selection not seeming quite […]

I am incredibly blessed by, and am so very grateful for the presence of Jeff in my life, as my partner. I am very much in love, happier than I have any right to be, and amazed that I was able to find someone who puts up with me and with whom I’m such a […]

I‘m ensconced tonight at my mother’s house in the Alleghany Highlands of Virginia, where it’s already feeling like winter. When I left Arlington around 7:45 this morning, temperatures there were in the 60s (though projected to fall into the lower 40s later in the day), but just a few hours later and 220 miles further […]

According to the man who may be the next chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (“Scalia says religion infuses U.S. government and history,” AP via Newsday): …a religion-neutral government does not fit with an America that reflects belief in God in everything from its money to its military. “I suggest that our jurisprudence should […]

Neither Jeff nor I have been very good lately about blogging our outings. Just for the record, then, this past Friday night we saw A Tuna Christmas. Chortlingly funny in a lowbrow, let’s-make-fun-of-red-staters kind of way (and three days later we’re still quoting lines from the show). The couple next to us–20-something, straight, mixed-race–didn’t seem […]

In more positive news, Harvard rousted Yale, 35-3, in yesterday’s Game, in a perfect ending to an undefeated season and clinching the Ivy League title. [Title taken from the lyrics to Tom Lehrer’s (’47) parodic “Fight Fiercly, Harvard!”. Other Harvard fight songs are available at the same site.]

With inauguration still nearly two months away, the Republicans have wasted no time in pushing an appalling agenda. In merely the last few days alone, we’ve seen: Republicans sneaking language into the federal spending bill that would permit two Republican committee chairmen and their staff to demand, without regard to any privacy protection, income tax […]

With a boyfriend who shares the same hobbies of blogging and photography, I’m beginning to feel like one of those computer images of a computer on the screen of which is the image of a computer on the screen of which is the image of a computer, ad infinitum, or one of those mirrors that […]