Reporting in after… a very long time
UPDATE: I removed the paragraph mentioning “silver linings,” because it appears that at least the part about dolphins being seen in Venetian canals is not true, per National Geographic. (Air quality in...
View ArticleTen years ago today: In memory of “Matt”
Ten years ago I published a lengthy diary on the first anniversary of the death of my then-15-year-old nephew. In his honor and memory, I am publishing the same diary, with only a few edits,...
View ArticleThe Pootie Queen has gone over the Rainbow Bridge
I am very sorry to let you all know that Tricia Wyse, a.k.a. the Pootie Queen, died this morning, apparently from a heart attack (others will doubtless provide more details). I know I am far from the...
View ArticleI'm done with the Mormon church
Following the Mormon Church's announcement of its new policy, that the children of gay parents cannot be blessed nor baptized (until they are 18 and renounce their parents'"wicked ways"), and that...
View ArticleI will remember this my whole life long
[This is my annual diary in remembrance of this day in 1963.]I was in second grade at Limerick Avenue Elementary School in Canoga Park, California (a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley)....
View ArticlePraying for “moisture”
California has been in the grip of a huge drought for quite some time now, and today being the first Sunday of the month, a.k.a. "Fast Sunday," Mormons are being asked to fast and pray that the drought...
View Article“Matt’s” death, 7 years ago today
Five years ago I published a lengthy diary on the first anniversary of the death of my then-15-year-old nephew. In his honor and memory, I am publishing the same diary, with only a few edits, below the...
View ArticleIt's Pioneer Day today in Mormondom
When I was growing up in Southern California, the child of active converts to Mormonism, I dressed up as a pioneer (usually a girl pioneer, much to my tomboy dismay) every July 24th and went with my...
View ArticleI think of myself as a writer, and yet…
I think of myself as a writer, and yet my diaries here are few and far between. My blog entries are even scarcer these days. Even today, visiting my principal blog sites, I ended up just clearing out...
View ArticleMBTA, Harvard, MIT, etc. closed — stay home!
All MBTA services (buses, trains) are suspended. Harvard, MIT, Boston U. and numerous other schools and businesses are closed in Boston and Cambridge while the second suspect, armed and considered...
View ArticleMore than German in German class
This past Friday evening marked the end of my third week in an Integrationskurs here in Berlin — a state-subsidized German-language course that is intended to help immigrants become more fully a part...
View ArticleCalling Pittsburgh-area Kossacks: please help a lady in distress
Pittsburgh Kossacks, can you give this lady a hand? Please read her diary here. If you're in a position to help, please leave a comment in her diary and/or send her kosmail. Thanks in advance!
View ArticleBeware of Mitt's Mormon ground game this weekend
A lot has been justly written about how well-organized the Obama campaign has been, and how lacking in field offices and such the Romney campaign is by comparison.Well, guess what: this weekend the...
View ArticlePost-mormon nudity, part II (or, bare naked lady? who, me?)
More than ten years ago I participated in a mormon version of The Vagina Monologues. I published that monologue yesterday. A few weeks ago I was asked to contribute a follow-up… and that's what's below...
View ArticleBare Naked Lady, or post-mormon nudity, part I
More than 10 years ago, prior to moving to Europe, I participated in an off-off-off-Broadway (try Salt Lake City) mormon takeoff on The Vagina Monologues. My monologue from that time is posted below...
View ArticleI just voted here in France (updated x2)
Aux urnes, citoyens! ("To the ballot boxes, citizens!")I just got back from the village multi-purpose hall (named, rather grandiosely, La Salle Émancipatrice— literally, "the liberating room," but...
View ArticleUpdate on mormon baptism for the dead
Well, well, well… looks like all the negative PR and how it may adversely affect Mitt's chances has finally pushed the mormon church to belatedly take some steps to get its members to stop submitting...
View ArticleI've done baptisms for the dead (w/poll)
Yes, it's true: when I was a youthful teen true believer, I was baptized for dozens of dead people. Follow me below the orange loops-de-kos to find out more about this practice and other (yes, other!)...
View Article“Matt” died 5 years ago today
Four years ago I published a lengthy diary on the first anniversary of the death of my then-15-year-old nephew. In his honor and memory, I am publishing the same diary, with only a few edits, below the...
View ArticleIn between emergencies ...
With another winter storm bearing down on New England later today, but with the seasonal lull in dramatic wind activities (= tornados and hurricanes), and hopefully a lull in seismic events (knock on...
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