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Looking ahead to better days

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” — Oscar Wilde When I should have been neck-deep in fiction writing yesterday afternoon, I was hunched instead over my wee, 7-inch netbook screen, wringing my hands as New York state senators voted, one by one, against marriage equality.  Thirty-eight nays handily clobbered twenty-four [...]

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Mathematics of heartbreak

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

24 Yes 38 No Marriage inequality prevails in New York state.

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I live with a genius

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on October 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

If you’ve got a tissue handy, please take a few minutes to watch Cabrina’s video montage of our trip to the National Equality March in D.C. two weeks ago. It’s breathtaking:

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Another front seat to history (we hope)

Posted in blogging, tagged , , , on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

So much could have gone wrong with our crazy little plan. When Cabrina and I first learned about the National Equality March scheduled for Oct. 11 (National Coming Out Day) in Washington, D.C., we shot each other a look. I knew the look. We got the same playful gleam in our eyes last November, just [...]

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And we were there

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

No use reinventing the wheel. Here’s what I wrote on my work blog about President-elect Barack Obama (ooh, typing that still gives me goosebumps), the morning after Election Day: Sweeping politics aside with a big push broom… Few among us can deny that we woke up this morning on the other side of a dividing [...]

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