My involvement in a project recently has reminded me that my sexuality could still be, well, perhaps somewhat questionable? I don’t talk a lot about it, but when I was 15 years old I was abducted. At the time I was very involved in the church trying to pray away…

This And That
It would have been such a relaxing weekend, had it not been for the psychic fair. Rather than reveling in the near completion of my annual reports for work, I spent the days talking to strangers and reading their energies and auras. Saturday night we were all required to attend…

The Daily Grind
While it may appear that I’ve been napping on the beach in Baja, reality is just the opposite. Work is eating me alive and I’m still doing three people’s jobs in the middle of one of the two busiest seasons of the year. I really can’t cover it all. It’s…

Independence and the Opening of the West
Traders, explorers, hunters, and adventurers marked the paths over which destiny took its course, but it was the settler who, in the end, was most consequential in establishing the United States we now know. – Thomas Hart Benton It’s late at night and I can hear the sound of distant…

Flying Home
It was a crazy morning racing to get everything packed, the hotel taken care of and getting to the airport in time to make my flight. There was so much chaos at the airport, on top of the fact that neither Choire and I were functioning on optimum sleep levels,…

Detroit Rock City
Greetings from Detroit, Michigan. It’s our last few hours here and it’s been absolutely fabulously hectic since our friends arrived. They flew in on Thursday and have monopolized Choire’s and my attention ever since. Just now we’ve returned from an excellent dinner at Pronto in Royal Oak—tasty and delicious. Now…