Reluctant Rebel

.......or Hedonist with Inhibitions

Friday, August 29, 2025

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A Collection of Photos: Province Lands and Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA

A Collection of Photos: Province Lands and Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA

Provincetown Massachusetts - Selected Photos of My Happy Place

FREE PDF BOOK

Did You Ever See A Horse Go By? A Coming Out Memoir (Re-edited with New Material)

My Dog's Blog & My Food Blog

Dinner's Ready

Give Us Our Daily Bread - [This is a duplicate post from ReluctantRebel] One thing about not being able to sleep past 2 AM is that I get to make dough. Rather than lay in bed and co...
5 years ago
Benedict Bentley

Happy New Year Woof - So all the holiday company was gone and I had a good nights sleep. I woke up and thought it was going to be a happy new year. After breakfast we did what ...
5 years ago
Did You Ever See A Horse Go By?

Royalties - Got my $20.98 author royalty check the other day - from the publisher. (That's not a typo). I'm not sure what that represents as there were other outlets ...
9 years ago

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Steve - Steve, age 13 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1969) This occasion was the *Golden Wedding Anniversary* of Nanny and Poppy, my grandfolks who still spoke with t...
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- *MITCHELL IS MOVING *has moved. Move with me to "Moving With Mitchell" (www.movingwithmitchell.com). *MITCHELL IS MOVING **se ha mudado.* *Muévete conmig...
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About Me

: From New Britain & Bristol, CT now in Cochiti Lake, New Mexico, United States; I am a reluctantly-retired, no-longer self-employed, gay baby boomer who came out relatively late in life due to taking my Catholic upbringing much too seriously. I've been with my loving partner since 1988 and we married on October 25, 2014. We moved from a small house on a few of acres of woods in Connecticut to a small house in a unique community New Mexico in November 2015. I worked for non-profits and the like so have no retirement plan other than to work as little as possible, enjoy as much as possible and hope for the best, which is not at all practical. I have a rebellious streak but I am not heroic by any means, thus the "reluctant" part of my blog title. Our 100 pound Labrador/Weimaraner "Benni" took over our lives for 11 years since we adopted him as a rescue puppy in 2010. He even had his own blog. Our beloved Benni had to be euthanized in August of 2021. We miss him dearly. We like the outdoors, traveling and RVing. Oh, I recently published a book (September 2014), a memoir to be exact, which I hope will be at least somewhat entertaining. You can read "Did You Ever See A Horse Go By?" for free on my other blog. https://didyoueverseeahorsegoby.blogspot.com/

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