26 November 2010

The Truth About The Real Black Friday

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On Sunday, two days from today, a year will have passed since the suicide of Mike Penner, a.k.a. Christine Daniels. I never knew her, but ...
25 November 2010

Giving Thanks on a Quick Morning Ride

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I heard it was going to rain today.  So I tried to sneak in an early ride:  just a few miles on my fixed-gear bike.  It felt about ten degre...
23 November 2010

On This Date: The Road Ahead

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It was the day after Thanksgiving:  this date, the 23rd. I was fifteen years old. I recall it distinctly for a couple of reasons.  For one, ...
22 November 2010

Even They--And We--Get The Pronouns Wrong Sometimes

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Today, I stepped into a store on my way from lunch with Bruce to an appointment with my opthamologist.  (Dr. Noah Klein, one of the best in ...
21 November 2010

Moving Forward, Again

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I feel better after taking a ride today.  Still, I am thinking about Janine and  something both my mother and Millie said yesterday:  "...
20 November 2010

Transgender Day of Remembrance: For The Truth About Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar

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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance.  For those of you who are just learning about it, this day commemorates those who met violent death...
19 November 2010

Until We Meet Again: The Weight of This Day

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Am I projecting onto the rest of the world? It seemed that everywhere I looked, people were ready to hibernate.  Windy, chilly, overcast ...
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16 November 2010

A Wish At The End

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Right now I want to be in Paris.  But not for all of the usual reasons.  Well, all right, I want to pedal along the quais and around the Not...
15 November 2010

Jay and Janine

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Perhaps it's not a coincidence--at least for me, anyway--that Janine died during the workshop I co-led at the Graduate Center on Friday....
14 November 2010

Coping

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Janine's going to be cremated on Wednesday.  Of course I'm going to send cards to her other friends and family.  But I wish I could ...
13 November 2010

R.I.P. Janine

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 I should have known that something was even worse than it seemed.  I was in what is possibly my least favorite place in this city: the Gra...
11 November 2010

To Sleep

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Tomorrow's the conference at the CUNY Graduate Center.  I'm leading a group there on Aging and Ageism in the LGBT community.  Nothin...
09 November 2010

Weekend Forum, Coming Up

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On Friday I'm going to co-lead a forum on aging in the transgender community.  I guess I'm qualified to lead it:  After all, I am tr...
08 November 2010

More (!) About the Elections

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Much ink has been spilt (and much digital space taken up) talking about the Republican "takeover" or the Tea Party "coup....
07 November 2010

Ending With Daylight Savings: R.I.P Roni

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Daylight Savings Time ended today.  It really made the day go by quicker than I expected.  Too quickly, in fact. The coming days will go by ...
06 November 2010

Moving On At The End Of Daylight Savings Time

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Tonight--or, more precisely, at two o'clock tomorrow morning--Daylight Savings Time ends.  That means the clocks are turned back an hour...
05 November 2010

They're Doing What I Said They Should...Without Me.

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At my regular job, I bumped into a prof I used to see regularly but hadn't seen in some time.  Neither of us was avoiding the other (At ...
04 November 2010

Drownsiness In The Rain

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Today everybody looked sleepy.  I could just barely keep my students awake, probably because I could just barely keep myself awake. About th...
02 November 2010

Election Day

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Well, the election results are coming in.  None of them are surprising.  While people are unhappy with what's going on in this country a...
01 November 2010

The Elections: I Have No Expectations

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Tomorrow's Election Day. It seems that actual and would-be voters can be more or less divided into the following categories: the ...