Make More Decisions and Less Choices.

I’m writing to you about the time I quit my job, ended my relationship and moved to Spain. I promise not to use a single Eat, Pray, Love quote. Except for this one: “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than…

Banning Books, Burning Books and the Slippery Slope

Revisiting — David Bowie: the Most Under-Appreciated Rock Star Ever? — 7 years later…

This post was originally published Open Salon in 2009 as “David Bowie — the Most Under-Appreciated Rock Star Ever.” Although after today’s shocking news of his death and the outpouring…

Things I gay ask myself at my new job

Am I a gay pioneer?

I grew up in a small town in Ohio that had thriving theater and arts programs all supported by a community of rich old ladies. Every year you’d hear of another kid who graduated, came out to their parents…

Slipping into Toothlessness

It’s midwinter, you’re at the desolate tundra called the Jersey shore and you’re quietly slipping into…

Playing in the Key of Code

Living in New Orleans should be the envy of all, because the quality of its music is rivaled perhaps only by the…

When a House Dies

After Hurricane Katrina, artist Loren Schwerd went to New Orleans. The trees, stripped bare of their leaves, bore strange new fruit. Hair extensions, commonly used by African American women, had wrapped themselves around limbs in a macabre reminder that the storm had turned everything inside out…