When Good Parents Go Bad
My mother has been in the hospital. For five months now. What started out as a simple (!) open heart surgery has turned into Bedpanpalooza 2011, a festival for which I did not purchase a ticket. And quite frankly, this does not bode well for our planet. Those of you who’ve read my first memoir Where’s My Wand know that Mother – who I referred to as General Patton in pedal pushers, and a woman [...]
Piece on CNN.com
I have a piece on CNN.com - for the magical thinker in all of us. http://bit.ly/pa7Bbp
She Has Every Right to Kill Me
This piece is on the Huffington Post today. http://huff.to/pQFfVj
Please Don’t Feed the Cougars
If you’re in the market for a little ego boost, I highly recommend a Palm Springs happy hour. Last weekend, my partner and I, along with my in-laws and our friends Nicole and Joe, went to a bar that features live jazz music in Palm Springs. This in itself should have been entertainment enough. The music was great, and the venue was very retro Rat Pack. But there was a little something extra. Now, if [...]
Little Pink Lies
This essay was just featured on The Advocate. You can read it here. http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/06/30/Little_Pink_Lies/
Getting Better NOW
This is a piece I just did for the It Gets Better Project. If you're not familiar with it, it's a website designed to reassure gay kids that - although they may feel ostracized now - their lives WILL get better. Yeah, it gets better. But what about when some armored tank with ears is escorting you, face first, into your locker or a ditch? Or some charm-challenged cheerleader who can barely spell D-E-F-E-N-S-E goes on [...]
Sorry for the delay in posting
I've been writing articles for CNN, The Advocate and the Huffington Post. I'll link to them here once they're up on those respective sites!
What’s My Motivation?
I have an Atheist friend. I know, I'm amazing. There should be a bust of me at the Museum of Tolerance. As a spiritual seeker, I personally believe in God. And I've always had an easier time with Agnostics, who are really just hedging their bets as if the hereafter was a roulette wheel. But as an enormously forbearing and open-minded person (see above), I respect everyone's beliefs. Even the stupid ones. And I've really [...]