Evening Dances:
  10 times at JP Contra
  18 times at JP English
  19 times at BIDA
  3 times at Harvard Square English

3 day weekend at Dance Flurry in Saratoga Springs
 3 day weekend at Queer dance Camp in Aptos, CA
 3 day weekend at NEFFA in Marlboro
 3 day weekend at LCFD dance camp at Pinewoods

That was 62 days - lower than the past - mostly ( Read more... )

I was looking thorugh my passport collection and cataloged all the trips. I found 81 - some of the entries were hard to read so I might be off by 1 or 2. And I think there might a few Canadian ones with no passport entries ( Read more... )

Another event for Motss.Con XXXII was a visit to the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden located on the Stanford University campus. It was entrancing to wander around in it. I definitely recommend a visit there if you go to Palo Alto ( Read more... )

As part of the motss con some of us went to the Dali Expo in Monterey. Dali actually lived in Monterey for a few years and many of the works in this exhibit were illustrations for books (not biology text books ( Read more... )

We just returned from Motss Con XXXII in Palo Alto. soc.motss, a Usenet news group that was created in the '80s as a means for LGBTQ people to communicate - and called motss for "members of the same sex" since using gay and lesbian in the name would likely have caused it to not be carried at many sites. Starting in 1988 there has been an annual ( Read more... )

As part of our motss.con New Orleans trip we went to the Saint Louis Cemetery.

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One of the things we did in New Orleans was to go on a Swamp Tour. By bus-van passed Lake Ponchartrain and then the 20 of us got into a boat. We saw lots of swamp-life: trees, alligators, wild hogs, birds. The hogs were quite netertaining. There were small colonies of houses that we passed - some not in very good condition. All in all it was a fun ( Read more... )

2014 was another fine year with lots of dancing, travel, socializing, theatre, concerts, opera, watching baseball, volunteer work as co-chair of the Cambridge GLBT Commission, member of organizing committees for the JP Contra dance, the JP English Country dance, and Lavender Country & Folk dancers).

I have rsc, my husband/partner/boyfriend - 41 ( Read more... )

There is a very interesting article in Slate about the origin of soc.motss. soc.motss was a Usenet group - Usenet was one of the earliest social networking systems.

motss stands for Members Of The Same Sex, a name chosen because it was thought if gay or lesbian appeared in the name many sites wouldn't carry the group ( Read more... )

In June as part of motss.con.26 which took place in Ann Arbor we went to visit the Heidelberg Project in Detroit. I took a bunch of pictures which I hadn't got around to posting. It was a fascinating place.

Today I learned that the house burned down. News article.


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