I Used to Be a Tomboy: 10 Common Misconceptions about Gay People
I have always been amazed at how remarkably interested perfect strangers seem to be in my sex life. That’s the problem with being gay. Not only do people choose to believe all sorts of pretty...
View ArticleFifty-one Years and Counting
A year ago, my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and I wrote this little essay for them. Since then Fork in My Eye was born, so I thought I would post it here to honor another year...
View ArticleThe Summer Country
The heat was brutal. What little residual coolness my skin retained from the car’s air conditioner was ripped away as soon as I left the shade. My skin and hair were on fire. My shirt where it lay...
View ArticleAll the Days of Summer
“Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.” - Ray...
View ArticleThe Hesitant Herbivore
via National Geographic I am a creature of habit, entrenched in my routines, glacially slow to alter my course. I cling to the familiar with the powerful grip of a 3 toed sloth and move toward any new...
View ArticleThe Hesitant Herbivore, Part 2
Yup. Hate it all. I hate fruit. I hate oranges because they’re pulpy, bananas because they’re mushy, and grapes because they pop like eyeballs might when you squeeze them between your teeth. I hate...
View ArticleSanctuary
All my sanctuaries are green and empty of people or at the edge of the sea and deserted. Some are hard to get to and some are harder. Some have names like music – Aransas, Edisto, Hatteras, the South...
View ArticleWhy I Stayed Up for the Perseids
Because standing in my driveway at 3:00 AM next to a tripod holding my camera taking 30 second exposures over and over of a relatively small section of sky not polluted hopelessly by city lights,...
View ArticleCatching Comet Dust – the Orionids
In 1066, Halley’s Comet appeared just before the Battle of Hastings. The comet passed particularly close to the earth that year and was described by witnesses as a bright new star in the heavens. King...
View ArticleLights of the Outer Banks
Bodie Island Lighthouse was my first. It was a birthday present. No not the lighthouse, though wouldn’t that be cool? The trip to see it, I mean. My partner gave me a weekend at Nag’s Head for my 45th...
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