Parting Glances: My 10 Minutes in Heaven (Pt. 3)
Footnote: Following BTL publication of Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, several big time book publishers called me with contractual offers. Modestly, I said that as a renegade [...]
Parting Glances: My 10 Minutes In Heaven (Pt. 2)
My cellphone says 12:03 a.m. My second afterlife minute in heaven. (This brief account is probably an LGBT first.) DISCLAIMER: Unlike many straight accounts, [...]
Parting Glances: My 10 Minutes In Heaven (Pt. 1)
DISCLAIMER: There are several accounts of afterlife experiences on the New York Times Best Seller list, including one by a three-year-old boy (with a little [...]
A Feast With Green Carnations
Somewhere pressed in my book of memories is a green carnation, remarkably fresh with the passage of time. It's there with a wrist corsage I hadn't the courage [...]
Ambidextrous Fable
Dear Daily Journal: I've been using my right hand only during Lent. 40 days of penance, as it were. (See the block lettering. My p's look like q's. My i's [...]
PARTING GLANCES: Yo! Y'all. I'm 'Dude'!
". . . and I'm a gay basher . . ." Beloved PG Friends: I'm sitting in on a meeting of Gay Basher's Anonymous with – unknown to the bashers – my pocket-size [...]
Parting Glances: How Long Ago It Seems ...
In the mid-50s there weren't any nationwide advocacy groups. No newspapers like Between The Lines. No gay-friendly churches. No out homosexual celebrities. [...]
Parting Glances: JHVH's Rainbow Scapegoats
It's something of a psychological truism that when problems seem insurmountable – too overwhelming to cope with – "smaller" problems are created as a [...]
39, And Not Counting
At my advanced age I've come to realize I really don't exist. With the exception of the IRS, my creditors, my column's faithful baker's dozen fans, my friends, [...]
Parting Glance: Stop! Look! Listen!
Shortly before retiring from the digitally enhanced combat called teaching I came across a bound volume of back issues of Detroit Public Schools news about [...]
Parting Glances: Pox Vobiscum $$$$
It was a year ago last week that Pope Benedict XVI resigned from Holy Office to spend his last days in prayer and contemplation. Some say not a moment too [...]
Parting Glances: 3:16 Gets Flicked Out!
I rarely write about straight guys. I find them to be, well, rather flighty. But in the interest of LGBT civility to all God's web-footed creatures, let tell [...]
