Two Years Four Weeks Later: The Hard Truth that was held in

      Author's Note – Two Years Later I originally wrote this piece nearly two years ago, in the wake of my husband's suicide. At the time, I was swimming in a sea of questions, grief, and societal expectations about what my relationship meant — to others, to me, and to the world. What …

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When Love is Political and Sex is Assumed

            “Gay sex life, unlike straight sex life, is never a private matter. When a man and a woman walk hand in hand, it is their love that they make public. When two men walk hand in hand, it is their sex life that they make public… Our words are …

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Oh Yeah, He’s Dead

            Okay, well… the way things are going, we’re still not circling back to the Change Series just yet. If I’m going to tell that story properly—especially the part between the Army and civilian life—I need more time to flesh it out. I rushed past too much in the first …

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What the Fresh Hell Now?

                Another delay on the blog series about change, because… well… from the Department of What the Fresh Hell Now, comes today’s lovely update from our once beautiful seat of government in Washington. It would seem that our dear leader has decided that if you're a veteran—and either …

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