Dreaming of a White Out Christmas

One of the many spurious reasons given for hatred of gay people is the belief that people choose to be gay. As almost any gay person will tell you, they never chose it, it’s just part of who they are. Now  [more...]

It’s the end of the year, and all those lists are starting to crop up — you know, the ones that count down the best of the year. I started to read one about the top 50 gadgets of the last 50 years, and  [more...]

I’m leaving the country just in the nick of time: across the street in the park, emanating from the woods, is an eerie, sci-fi sound… the coming of the cicadas. It sounds for all the world as if the giant  [more...]