Sometimes he takes my breath away. We're watching Arrested Development in our living room, and he's curled up on the couch with his head on my thigh and one hand in front of his head on my knee. Everything about him is so beautiful I almost ache to see him, the way his hair wants to curl, his profile, the shape of his wrist. The shadows his ( Read more... )

Rachel and Doss have been with me this weekend, which is lots of fun. Rachel and I went and roamed the Quarter yesterday while Doss and Kevin were at VoodooFest. The plan was that there would be a party after Voodoo at a friend's house, but said friend turned out to be having a lame night and falling asleep, and the early arrivals to the party ( Read more... )

Last night, I was working on my ebook library and Kevin was downloading some new roms for his tablet (he can now play Pokemon games on every device he owns that has a screen). I was sipping the pinot grigio he brought home as a surprise (because in oppressively hot weather, I crave cold white wine). He tapped my arm and said, "Here, how's this one ( Read more... )

Proposition 8 in California got overturned, by a judge asserting that it offers "no rational basis" for defining marriage as an inherently straight institution. There's the... Fifth, I think, Circuit Court of Appeals, and then the US Supreme Court. This is forcing the issue in the best way, and I am more excited about this than I have been about ( Read more... )