I’ve been meaning to post links to these blogs for a while:

• A Gay Girl in Damascus
  What it says on the tin. Amina lived in the US for several years, and then moved back to Syria a while ago. I found her blog a few days ago thanks to a link from a coworker - around the same time the secret police started looking for her and she went underground. ( Read more... )

When I was a baby, my parents made a photo album documenting my days as a Christmas present for my grandparents. (At some point in my childhood, if I'm remembering correctly, it ended up back at our house.) When my mother and stepfather came to visit most recently, they brought it for me ( Read more... )

Had a wonderful weekend with plumtreeblossom.

Saturday early evening we went to see The Town, a Ben Affleck movie set in the Charlestown section of Boston. We both really really enjoyed it. (I enjoyed it as a movie, but I also really enjoyed seeing so many places that are part of the backdrop of my daily life in a movie ( Read more... )

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So plumtreeblossom and I (and docorion and many other people we know) were quoted extensively in a great story on polyamory in today’s Boston Globe magazine. The print edition has photos of me and docorion as well as the photo of Alan and Michelle that’s on the online edition. The online version (linked above) has a video that docorion and Alan (W.) and Michelle were interviewed for ( Read more... )

I just got back from a fabulous little trip to New York with plumtreeblossom to find large quantities of presents from silverlibre and ka9sqb in Illinois and bcat1 and spacechicken in North Carolina on my doorstep. And an awful lot of them are the edible kind ( Read more... )

So there’s this wonderful family photo of me at around two years old playing in Hyde Park. My mother made a copy for me, which I have somewhere very safe, I’m sure. But my sister also has a copy, and while we were down there last weekend I scanned it in. So here I am:


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(Sorry no Rabbit Hole Day post this year; I don’t have enough brain cells to be creative right now. You get the following by virtue of the fact that most of it was written yesterday on the T.)

So last long weekend was Arisia, and I haven’t stopped having fun since. On Tuesday, I ended up at dinner at the Cambridge location of Addis Red Sea with cathijosephine ( Read more... )

I’ve seen this in zillions of people’s journals. ( The privilege meme. )

I believe that yesterday was the first day since I started growing my hair out again that I looked in the mirror and liked the way my hair looked. That’s partly because it’s finally starting to get long enough that it hangs down rather than sticking out at absurd angles, and partly because it was cool enough that I could drive to the T station ( Read more... )