Reluctant Rebel

I've been spending time at our camper in a spot in Vermont where I've been off the grid and where I'd have to travel thirty mi...

Leon and I attended our first same-sex wedding since the recent Supreme Court decision. We have known Joyce and Robin for 25 years; actual...

The SCOTUS decisions on Prop 8 and DOMA are historic, but they steps toward a goal that has not yet been reached. I have used the term bit...

As we await the Supreme Court decisions on Prop 8 and DOMA we should be aware of how far we've come and that the struggle is not over...

Happy Gay Pride Month! Here is a very moving song by Ten Percent Review/Tom Wilson Weinberg * with some of my own photos of Gay Pride and...

In celebration of Gay Pride, and to provide a bit of perspective on our collective gay history, I have decided to post a few quotes from a...

A Link to an article in Salon by Mary Elizabeth Williams on the latest US Catholic bishops campaign against marriage equality.

Replaced a number of cracked slate slabs in the patio which necessitated re-configuring the whole thing. Of course all the slate is salvage...

In case you didn't get the gist of the last rambling post, I'm closing up shop here for a while - while I get some R&R&R...

Poem by College Buddy Dennis Ryan 1968  As He Went Off To The Peace Corps A Banner I Made for Dignity - Use a Gay Interpretation ...

Growing up in the 50's and 60's with the Mickey Mouse Club and Disney, I was never a great fan of Annette.  I thought she was too ...

"LIFE SHOULD BE SO SIMPLE" To T.S. 10 April 1972             Anyhow, you still planning to quit and go back to ...

What if they made a weekly TV series "Supreme Law" like LA Law or Boston Legal or Night Court. It might make a great TV series but...

Yesterday I took Benni for a walk in the doggie park.  It was cold and windy and only one other person and one other dog was there, so we de...

For What It's Worth Department: I posted this comment (pending moderation) on the blog IZZOIZ after another rather boorish post about ...

I remember reading about Bernard Baran years ago.  He was wrongly accused of molestation while working as a teacher's aide back in th...

A Very Different View of the Vatican I have been reading some of the Catholic blogs and it seems that the ultra-conservative faction of ...

Church of St Francis, Assisi, Italy Many of the gay blogs are all aflutter - most finding and re-blogging all the negative stuff about t...