The Little Guy: An Unconscious Love Story
I’ve lived long enough now to confirm Jung’s and Freud’s theory of the existence of the unconscious, and I believe I’ve figured out how to better understand it. What I’ve realized is that it helps […]
Category: Relationships
A World Without Labels
Most of you know I am raising my beautiful and very intelligent, 13-year-old granddaughter named Samaya. She paid me to say the italicized so I could use her name in this article. Anyway, last week […]
Toilet Underbite: Bad Holiday Decorating
I’m deep into holiday decorating and now my toilet seat has an underbite. The threat of company has others garlanding hallways, but not me. I’m disgruntled at the ancient toilet seat in the guest bathroom. […]
Relentless Logic and Cheeseburgers
My wife pointed to a dish with cheeseburger remnants. “What’s this?” she asked. “Cheeseburger,” I said. “Why did you eat that when you knew we were going out for lunch?” I riposted, “I wasn’t […]
Thanksgiving Under The Gay Turkey Wing
Recently, a friend described her Thanksgiving table as the Land of the Misfit Toys. “Anyone who doesn’t have a place to go comes to my house,” she said. Years ago that was us when David […]
How to Grow Up to Be a Writer (Part One)
Breakfast… Most people forget it’s even a meal. Others preach of it’s importance. For me, it was awkward. See my father was kind of a man whore, who always left me to clean up his […]
Let the Mask Down: Black Leather Chaps, Vampires, and Norsemen
Years ago, I spotted the chubby gay guy, his hairy butt hanging out of leather chaps. He stood on a patch of lawn, bare-chested in a studded harness, sipping a beer. “I want to talk […]
The special blue pill
I hear my husband running down the hall to where I stood in the bathroom putting in my contacts. “What is this?” He’s holding out his hand. I look down at it, thinking it’s a […]
Like Moths to a Flame
Take my beautiful, adoring women. Please! According to the advertisements I get on line, there are literally dozens of beautiful women eager to have me invest in foreign currencies. Of course, this is all understandable […]
Sideways….not a movie….a lifestyle
Some years ago, my husband suggested we go to a fancy dinner dance at the club. Yay! A new dress, nails done, hair done, pretty, pretty, pretty me. I began the day with a fresh […]