My little brother Jackson (who I’ve taken to calling Lil’ Monster because of his devotion to Lady Gaga) was in town Wednesday through Friday for a long overdue visit ( Read more... )

I finished reading American Psycho, thank goodness. Extraordinary book but it draws such a vivid picture of its narrator’s psychosis that I felt a little insane reading it ( Read more... )

Yesterday between my therapists appointment at 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. I re-read the novel Less Than Zero (which I first read in high school) in its entirety. I am now extremely depressed. While the drugs, promiscuity, prostitution and snuff films the book touches upon are pretty removed from my life the sense of anxiety and alienation at the ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone.

I’ll be celebrating the day with my parents and grandmother.

It’ll be the first Christmas I’ve been able to be with them since 2006 so I’m pretty happy about that.

Packing up my books.

So many books too pack.  I’m sort of awed at the amount I’m accumulated in the past six years.  I’ve been able to weed out some but there’s a lot I can’t part with-my copies of the Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia and His Dark Materials series, Angela Carter, Lovecraft, Maurice Sendak, stuff on women ( Read more... )

A little less heavy family stuff.

Before I went to work this morning I called my father in New York to wish him a happy Father’s Day.   It turns out my little brother was visiting from Washington DC for the weekend  so Pa-Daddy actually got to have one of this children with him on Father’s Day which was really nice.  I spoke to my brother, ( Read more... )

I had one of the most frightening dreams of my life last night.

In it I was at an event where President Obama was assassinated.  Because the killers were still at large, I locked myself up and hid in my parent’s house forgetting about Nonnie, my grandmother, across the road.  While I was hiding, the killers broken into Nonnie’s  house and ( Read more... )

My visit with my parents went surprisingly well.  The weather was wonderful, the countryside was beautiful and there was no insanity.  After many weeks spent tied up in knots I was able to do some serious relaxing.  I did a lot of reading, walked in the fields, and spent time with my grandmother everyday.

In addition to loafing about, I did ( Read more... )

I’ve been very withdrawn for the last couple of weeks.  Questions of whether or not I should move back to New York have been on my mind to the point where it’s difficult for me to think about much of anything else.  I’m going to visit my parents in New York from the 18th to the 22nd and its sort of a scouting mission to determine if I want to ( Read more... )

Since Easter I’ve been pretty busy between work, family, medical appointments and a story I’ve been working on for lgbtfest.

My Dad was in town from New York State for a five day visit. I was working most of the time but managed to get over to my sister’s place to see him everyday. Also yesterday I had off so I showed him around my neighborhood, ( Read more... )