Coming up next month at a.o.c. gallery: “One Degree” an exhibition of paintings by Drake Deknatel, Mike George and Alec Clayton. The title refers to one degree of separation – three artists from three different cities but all connected to the same gallery. The show will run through Nov. 30. a.o.c. gallery is located 608 …
We adopted a cat named Chloe yesterday. These first two photos were taken by the folks at the shelter for their website: This is Chloe. We picked her out at the local animal shelter website, and then Noel and I went and met her and brought her home yesterday. She was described on the website …
A friend sent me this and I filled it out and sent it back to him, but rather than forward it to people I thought I would post it here for your amusement. Here goes …A) Four jobs I have had in my life: a licensed vocational nurse a church secretary a Baskin Robbins ice …
Stonewall Youth’s speaker’s panel spoke about bullying at Washington Middle School in Olympia on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Alec and I attended a school board meeting on Monday, July 11, 2007, along with youth from Stonewall, members of PFLAG and other folks in the community. This letter to the editor was published as a Letters …
Thirty years ago yesterday the lights went out in New York City. Alec and I were living in the storefront of Everything for Everybody (EFE) on 13th Street in the West Village in the meat packing warehouse district near the s&m bars down by the Hudson River. Noel was a year old and I was …
Wednesday, June 20Alec was having some chest pain in the evening so Catherine and I took him to St. Peters hospital. After checking him out in the ER they decided to admit him for observation, and planned to do a nuclear stress test in the morning. We hoped they would find that it was because …
On Saturday, May 26, 2007 Steve Schalchlin wrote in his blog Although I posted a music video of the Lennon Piano visit to the Clayton’s home in Olympia previously, I hadn’t, until now, edited the actual video diary footage. Finally, today, after giving myself a little distance from it, began putting it together. Here is …
Yesterday was a dream I will never wake from, and yet so real. I am grounded in love and community. John Lennon’s piano was on my lawn and in my dining room. You should have seen sweet wonderful Steve Schalchlin‘s hands dance on that piano, and heard him sing “Imagine”, “Will It Always Be Like …