Feeling Proud

Feeling Proud

It’s that time of year again: this Sunday is Seattle’s Gay Pride Parade, which means the Hill where I live has gotten FESTIVE! Rainbow flags hang from shop windows, light posts are striped in colors, and despite the ceaseless rains (welcome to summer in...
Once More, With Feeling

Once More, With Feeling

Just over a year ago I wrote about Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, FL, who had decided to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11 with a little Quran barbecue, or what I liked to think of as a Quran-A-Q. Mr. Jones is back in the news, having shifted his public protests...
Contemplating the Saddle

Contemplating the Saddle

It has been a long, long time since I wrote anything on this site. I wish I could state that this has been a planned absence, an intentional break for head-clearing adjustments and soulful introspections, a joyful sabbatical and etc. (what I believe Europeans refer to...