Ring Side Seats: The Alabama April Tornadoes

The city was dark and silent beyond anything it had known in recent history. Even the stars seemed concerned, reluctant to show until early morning hours. With distressing finality, a hum and muffled thump, all electricity had ceased. A gloomy, ominous sky had brooded between gouts of blinding rain, lightening, thunder, and winds so strong […]

War Babies

I was nearly on-time. A fact he remarked on as he stood in the station and I stepped off the train at Prenzlauer Alleé. My very long-haired Italian friend looked at his wristwatch in a pointed manner, then pronounced his favorite connector for a change of subject, in English: “Well, okay!” He was Italian, but […]

The Navy and it’s “fallen” Captain are just more examples…

Navy Captain, Owen Honors, of the USS Enterprise relieved from command after creating and showing lewd and anti-gay videos to his crew. Full story at the Guardian.UK. “One of the videos opens with an unmistakable declaration of intent: “This evening, all you bleeding hearts and you fags … why don’t you just go ahead and […]

Observations and Questions of Christianity and Gays

  “Hell will hold no surprises for us.” It might be a rather chancy way to begin a thought piece, but when watching Hellboy the film the other night, as I typed a quote I thought profound “Hell will have no surprises for us”, I began to describe the characters. Rasputin was the one to […]

Bullying-A Preventable Epidemic: A Personal Journey

The recent suicides of our precious young has or should have affected each and every person whether you are pro- or anti-GLBT, or you hover somewhere in between undecided whether because of religious beliefs, personal preference or some other reason. I made a comment to the link posting Nicki Minjah’s after watching the segment, http://bit.ly/cyLBxU […]