Eulogy for Lee Glaze

by | Dec 17, 2013 | queerspawn | 1 comment

We lost an American pioneer and revolutionary when Lee Glaze died recently. I had the privilege to attend his memorial at Triangle Square, LA’s gay senior housing center. Among the assembled crowd I was definitely the youngest there, which made me a little sadder than...

In defense of American Parenting

by | Sep 25, 2013 | babies | 1 comment

I’ve been reading a lot lately about what Americans do wrong parenting wise, especially in comparison to the rest of the world.  I’m not complaining about the proliferation of information on other cultures parenting techniques. I’m an amateur ethno-pediatrician myself...

The radio made me cry

by | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

 I was stuck in the usual crush of LA traffic, impatiently pushing the buttons that change the radio station (my car’s old-school) when Power 106, the major hip hop station switched songs. It had a good beat, a catchy chorus and as I tuned into the lyrics I realized a...

On Valentine’s Day

by | Feb 14, 2013 | memoir, Uncategorized | 2 comments

When I got dumped, and I mean, majorly, after-five-plus-years-everyone-thought-you’d-get-married, dumped, a million people told me it would be a good thing if I were single for a while. At the time I held it against them. My take was that they were saying I was needy...

Arts Funding and Internet Commenters

by | Oct 2, 2012 | Uncategorized | 1 comment

I read an article online titled, I’m thirty two and my family bankrolls my lifestyle. It featured a lady whose family financially supports her so she can pursue a freelance writing career. According to the comment section she might as well have been Hitler. Among the...

I got all my Sisters with me…

by | Sep 14, 2012 | Lesbian, queerspawn | 3 comments

So clearly I took a European style vacation from blogging (read: eight weeks long), during which time I managed to accomplish a life-long goal of mine and became a fully professed member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. For those not in the know, the Sisters...

Is Odd Future Homophobic?

by | Jul 7, 2012 | queerspawn | 0 comments

This week was pretty colossal coming out wise. What with Anderson Cooper’s statements starting us off and then Frank Ocean’s letter about falling in love with a man going public later in the week. I was actually more interested in the latter since it was...