Coming Out Later in Life

Coming out later in life has its advantages. You are more objective and less immature as you step into the gay culture. You can read people and know who to trust and who not to…. oh heck, who am I kidding. There really aren’t any benefits coming out later in life LOL. When you come […]

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Only the Lonely

I have a confession to make. I hated Covid for many reasons and I wouldn’t wish it to be here, but one reason it provided a blessing for me is that it took a constantly overcharged extroverted world and calmed it down into a more evened-out introverted balance for those of us who needed it. […]

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The Cost of Being Gay

I want to give a trigger warning. I’m about to “shoot from hip” as we jokingly say in my family. I’m just going to share from my gut and my heart. Because of a series of events and experiences, I need to write and express some thoughts. I come from a background of ex-gay ministry […]

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2022: A YEAR IN THE MAKING

2022 wasn’t the worst of times and wasn’t the best of times. It was a year of a lot of white noise. Nothing is as bad, as far as I am concerned, as when Covid was at its worst and Trump was in office. Biden is in office today and though inflation is bad, we […]

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YOU ARE HERE

Where do you find yourself in life? As Diana Ross sings in a classic song of hers: “Do you know where you’re going to? Do you like the way that life is treating you?” It’s often during the holidays that we grant ourselves time for the most self-reflection out of any time of the year. […]

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A Light In The Dark

You and I are human. If you are a human on this Earth, you face periods of darkness. Rich, poor, man or woman, it doesn’t matter. I just finished teaching my students the Outsiders. This is the story by S.E. Hinton of two rival gangs called the Greaser’s and the Soc’s narrated by a Greaser […]

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Christmas in My Hometown

51 Photos to Make You Smile This Holiday Season Every year in my hometown of Allen Park, everyone does a cute job of decorating their homes, which are all homes made in Italian style. Yes, there are even some mafia stories from back in the day when the city was pretty much all Italians, but […]

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