I changed into a zombie. No, it wasn’t a costume I could change in and out of. I had turned into a full-fledged flesh-draining creature. It was not my intention to turn into this being. But I did set out to be something different than me and to feel different than I always do. It started with a plant, and I don’t mean...
read moreAfter seeing Footloose, both the new and the old versions, I thought I could make a difference. I believed I could change laws and create a movement. For starters, I could prove a religious need to take away all dancing. Mostly just because I’m saving people from being subjected to my dancing. OK, maybe dancing isn’t something I...
read moreI threw my fifth attempt at a column in the trash and decided to watch an old episode of Glee, rather than single-handedly destroy a rainforest or my fingernails. Glee tends to get my brain juices going, sometimes even other ones, but mostly it just makes me sing off-key and dance without rhythm. Anyhoo, I started watching a re-run...
read moreThere are mean things people say to make another person feel bad. But most of them are common and mundane. This was one of the more creative insults I’ve received and it came right from someone in my extended family. I drink blood and change people from straight to gay. My relative, at least, thinks I’m a vampire. This relative...
read more“I like you the way you are. It doesn’t matter what orientation you are.” These are the last words my mom might ever speak to me. “No you don’t! And you’re by far not the only one in this family who wants me to be different,” I said, slamming the door behind me. These are the last words I spoke, words I don’t even...
read moreChange is a scary word for, well, everyone. So it is no shock that it takes time for humans to progress, and for some, like Glenn Beck, they resist change so much they actually move backward, entering into an alternate universe called “disturbed reality.” I’m not smoking whatever Glenn Beck is currently smoking. But as a...
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