I must be feeling better because last night was the first time ina long time that I can remember having an early morning dream. Lately, for perhaps the last month, I have been consistently waking an hour too early and trying to make up for it by pretending I was fully awake, sometimes going so far as to brush my teeth and then going back to bed to ( Read more... )

Larry was an odd sort of guy. His face was already familiar enough to me in September of 2001 to make me to pause on my way to the Municipal Credit Union on Montegue Street one afternoon during my lunch hour. Somehow, our eyes met and I immediately placed him as one of a few dozen gay men I knew almost exclusively from the pre-AIDS heyday of gay ( Read more... )

I arrived at church just in time to hear what felt like the beginning of the sermon being delivered by our Assisting Priest. I was impressed by how fresh and clever his voice is. He is sort of the male equivalent of The Rector. The gist of it seemed to be devoted to convincing us that even though Christ is celebrated as a spiritual king, he is ( Read more... )

It seems like its been two years since New Yorkers began looking on wistfully as other parts of the nation had their fifteen minutes of fame: the Iowa caucuses, the showdown in New Hampshire and again in Pennsylvania and Ohio. And so, it was with of bit of unexpected wonder that my neighbors and I found ourselves huddled beneath blue skies and ( Read more... )