Would you look at the time-- it is the final hours of an upending year and I'm about to cook a fancy dinner.  Diego got the candelabras out. Maybe we'll do some things behind them.  He calls them "Lumiere."  After dinner, we're going to go see Possession at the artsy theatre for a 9:30 showing. And then it'll be 2022 ( Read more... )

September



The last two months have been stressful and bananas and did I mention stressful? One clue of how stressful it has been: I totally thought I sent an update for September already.  Whoops. Guess I didn't.  Here's the quick rundown of our chaotic lives at this point:

+ I started my new new teaching gig at a big public school in Minneapolis ( Read more... )

What a long strange journey it has been.  After landing the house, the Great Waiting Game of 2021 began, in which we waited patiently and then impatiently for our closing day on August 25.  In the lead up to that day, we would be at the beck and call of mortgage agents checking up on our finances and visiting every Home Depot and literally every ( Read more... )

From the first of July onward our lives got a little easier day bidet.  By easier, I guess I mean less intense. We made it to a nice hotel outside of Toledo, Ohio with an indoor pool.  We were able to rest our aching bones, catch up on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and ponder why Denise Richards received an onslaught of suspicion, derision ( Read more... )

We started the month off still in Brooklyn, NY, awaiting a deluge of visits from family members anxious to get their New York City fix one last time before we departed. I'm writing to you now from the couch in our new temporary apartment in Minneapolis, Minnesota and boy, are my arms tired.

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Thank you to New York City for allowing me to blossom into my queerness, which is what I will always love and appreciate you for.  My initial judgments of those more femme and queer than me, which were really jealousy disguised as disgust, set free so I could be who I yearned to be and who I will continue to become.  Thank you to NYC for showing me ( Read more... )

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