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It must have been something cogent and articulately pleading in my weekly prayers, but recently I've just been darn lucky. Not once, but twice. This past week [...]
Parting Glances: ShaZOOM! Oz Pride 2020
In spite of the halo'd Wizard of Oz, Pride 2020 came to the Yellow Brick Road — for the first time ever — this June. Thanks to the determination, hard work — [...]
Parting Glances: Fundies! Go Fly Ben Franklin's Kite!
If one person single-handedly pushed this country into a War of Independence from England, it is patriot and pamphleteer Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809). His book [...]
Parting Glances: A magic moment recalled!
About a dozen days ago tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow — at my age how can I be sure? — I was gifted with a pair of John Lennon enchantment [...]
Parting Glances: A stroke in time
It was a year ago this Memorial Day 2020 that I had a stroke and spent two weeks in Detroit Receiving Hospital and a month in physical rehab in the Senior Care [...]
Parting Glances: Hugs 6 Feet Away
When's the last time I was hugged? I can't remember. It's been so long it seems. A month ago? Two months ago? Social distancing has all but rendered the [...]
Parting Glances: OZ goes Drag Queen Bingo!
"It's been 80 years this year since we debuted in the movies," said Scarecrow on ZOOM to Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, Aunty Em, Glenda the Good Witch, and starlet [...]
Parting Glances: An Ex-Gay fairy tale
This is the story of Dorian Lavender who has vanished from the party scene of music, stimulants and sex, and is now ironically beyond the saving grace of [...]
Parting Glances: A CT Black History Remembrance
As an emerging gay teenager, I attended Cass Technical High School where I was fortunate to soon discover there were others like myself in the process of [...]
Parting Glances: Dopplegangers, Big 10 and Me
As a recent resident of the Henry Ford Senior Retirement Village Community, consisting of some 800 units — I live in Berkshire Gardens — I have had some [...]
Canes, Walkers and Rehabilitations
My brand-name watch battery quit after six years of service. I replaced it last week for another six years of second-by-second, hour-by-hour, day-by-day, [...]
Parting Glances: Repeat the joyful sound
this column first appeared in BTL 12/20/17 Contrary to rumors circulating for years in Story Bookland Weekly Tabloid there never was any real friction between [...]