Hello! For several years now, our family has participated in the Puget Sound Buddy Walk, an event created to promote acceptance, inclusion, and respect of individuals with Down syndrome. This year the Buddy Walk will be held on October 11 at Woodland Park Zoo, and I want to ask some of the other people who know and …
I came across this on my computer and it brings back lots of memories. From: Gabi ClaytonDate: Sun, 8 Sep 1996To: pflag-talkSubject: Lurk No More Well, I joined the list at the end of August, and I guess it is about time to say hello and introduce myself and “lurk” no more. My name is …
Today is a bittersweet Mothers’ Day.Bitter because THIS is the year I found out some of how much my Mother lied before her death in 1990. They were big lies. Giant lies. Its complicated and I am still learning and sorting it out and probably will be for a long time. Complicated too because as …
PFLAG-Olympia meets on Sunday. See you there? Yay! Noel is coming home for a couple of days on Monday which will be cool. Here’s a good article on coming out, which I commented on at the Bilerico site: I’m Not Out. But, Ya know, They Knowby Eric Leven ~ May 8, 2008 ~ The Bilerico …
Noel is coming down for Thanksgiving, and bringing his cat Linus, who will meet our new second cat Lulu for the first time. That should be interesting. I have jury duty on Thanksgiving week, and then will be in Washington DC for several days for a national safe schools roundtable meeting – and to see …
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 …
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 …