The nights have grown a little chilly back East and my building hasn't turned the heat on as yet. So, I probably shouldn't be too surprised that I had three separate dreams last night that involved my shivering or shaking. The interesting thing is that each time I woke up, I warmed up rather quickly; something about the dreamscape was causing my ( Read more... )

Aunt Lois is doing much better, that is to say, the optics are much better than they were last Saturday when I first saw her. By the time I emerged from the hospital's elevator bank on Tuesday afternoon, after an absolutely flawless two hour trip via the commuter railroad and local bus, I had begun to feel I knew my way around the place and ( Read more... )

I finally made it to the ICU yesterday afternoon, but, choosing to forego a lift from Big Bro' meant making a big navigating mistake on Google and winding up walking about two miles between two units of the same hospital that were on opposite ends of a Nassau County town ( Read more... )

Big Bro' and Sis are going out to visit Aunt Lois today. I have a conference call I have to be in on at Noon. Sis is trying to be helpful by coordinating the ride, but, she couldn't tell me what hospital they were all driving to. I'm afraid I have been very slow off the blocks since my arrival back ( Read more... )

Mom's last surviving sister-in-law is in the ICU. This apparently happened over the weekend while I was still Down South. Kelvin got a text from her daughter while he and I were trying to figure out what to do for dinner. I texted Big Bro' who texted back that he had just seen Aunt Lois the day before and that she seemed to be doing all right. That ( Read more... )

This was the best day I have spent all summer and it was completely unexpected. It actually started a week ago when Big Bro' left word on my answering machine that our Aunt Lois had acquired a pacemaker and that her daughter, our cousin Brenda would be up to visit. None of us has seen Brenda in decades even though we were once the closest cousins ( Read more... )

I have to admit that one of the things I haven't missed since Mom's illness is going out. I've turned down all the usual fundraisers, the Callen-Lorde dinner, the Emery Awards, the GLAAD Awards. I've all but resigned from St. Michael's; I know it's supposed to be a church; but, it's a church with an especially peripatetic social calendar that ( Read more... )

I have to admit that when my cousin Dandra called last weekend to announce her intention to come up for a visit, I was somewhat skeptical. I was even more skeptical when she said, she was bringing my 87 year-old Aunt Nannie along for the ride. We're not talking an airplane trip, here; we're talking a ten to eleven hour car ride from from North ( Read more... )

`Tis the Season for getting in touch; people have been leaving messages for me in various media ( Read more... )