Let me be your private dancer for a moment as I talk about the one and only Tina Turner. But I don’t want to lose you because you’re simply the best, better than all the rest. We might feel like two people rolling on the river stopping only to see the spirit of the bear, […]

In one the most epic original fantasies of all time, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings written by J.R. Tolkien we meet the likes of elves, trolls, wizards, and dragons but not just to entertain us. It is a story to teach and inspire us. It is a story that represents life. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Having lived as a closeted man pretending to be straight, I know what it is to shop for men’s underwear in the typical straight man’s world.  It is a vast field of the color white! Yawwwwn. There are some additions; black, gray, marine green, maroon, and various shades of blues with some patterns reminiscent of the […]