30 October 2014

Scenes in the making

Weddings are wonderful events, but much like the arrival of a new baby, nobody wants to hear about it every day. I like to think I’ve done a good job of holding myself back from making it the central part of any conversation. (As they say, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.)

Though we had originally thought of just eloping, Mark decided that we should at least extend the invitation to a few friends and family who might want to join us. We sent out about 20 invitations. It should be said that DC is not a place either of us have been to. We have no friends or family there, and it’s not an easy trip for most of the people we know. Our expectation, then, was that it would be

27 October 2014

Going to the chapel – who, me?

Originally published June 5, 2014 
I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind. (Nelson Mandela)
No one believes me when I tell them I’m so gay I dated two girls at the same time in high school, and they both knew it—and each other. Oh, people believe the first part…I’m so gay…just not the last part.
But no matter how much I ‘experimented’ with the heterosexual model, it was always going to be minus the sexual part. No one would believe it anyway.