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Monthly Archives: May 2015
100 Words- May 31-
It’s May 31, and the temperature here, in Chicago, is only fifty-three degrees. The good news is it is up from the forty-eight degrees it was when I woke at nine, this morning. We’ve had terrifically erratic temperatures this whole … Continue reading
100 Words- May 30, 2015
As he had every morning since he was thirteen, he looked into the mirror and said under his breath, “Well, ya better develop a personality, cause ya ain’t gonna get by on your looks”. The truth is, Earl Harmon was, … Continue reading
100 Words- May 29, 2015
I am going to have to say it, just to keep it real. I babble. When Britta and Renee came to visit, yesterday, my babble was at full steam. I do this, often, even with Eric. It’s like I have … Continue reading
100 Words- May 28, 2015
Had an extraordinary day, today. Received a package from Penny. She sent me three books, a few sweets and a letter that I have had a chance to read. Brita and Renee, two Halsted Center stalwarts visited, and, I went … Continue reading
100 Words- May 27, 2015
My sister took me out to lunch. It was the anniversary of her and her late husband’s wedding; she didn’t want to be alone. We went to a place on Lincoln Avenue. It wasn’t at all crowded, being just before … Continue reading
100 Words- May 26, 2015
The prevailing theory about the creation of our universe is that there existed a singularity, an Alpha point of zero, in which condensed energy reached such a state of heat it “exploded”. That explosion (which current theory considers less an … Continue reading
My Secret Identity #3
.From a personal journal entryMY SECRET IDENTITY #3 CONTINUED FROM AUG. 26, 2005There is a native wisdom in most gay people, even in the beginning, to keep their true selves hidden. I don’t know if it is a genetically spawned … Continue reading
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100 Words- May 25, 2015
I am not a particularly effeminate child, but neither am I an overtly masculine one. I would rather read than play contact, or any other, sport. Occasionally I play baseball, but I am so bad at it that Fat Eddie, … Continue reading
100 Words- May 24, 2015
In the summer, if, in his sight, we were playing as noisily as the neighborhood kids, we were called out and made to sit on the curb, in front of the house, at his pleasure. I was twelve years old … Continue reading
100 Words- May 23, 2015
One of the more frustrating things bout being seventy-two is that I am not anywhere near as articulate in free floating discussion as I once prided myself as being. Everything I want to say, disappears even as I’m saying it. … Continue reading
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