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 […]

I have an occasional spell that takes hold of me where I sit down and just go down a Tik Tok spiral. I open up Tik Tok and just spend about a good hour watching videos on the app. I like them because they are raw, real, quirky, goofy, and sexy–all of it. With the […]

holiday-1 Play the video for some holiday magic! This is one of the holiday trinket splurges that my family expects of me now. They roll their eyes with each purchase as each and every holiday rolls in. I’ve become my grandmother as my room has grown to hold too many knick-knacks for the shelves to […]