Welcome to my blog!

Welcome to my blog! Someone said to me recently that I should use my life experiences as subject matter for a blog.

At first I guffawed, but then I realized, hey, she's right. I've had one messed up life, but then, so haven't most people who aren't in the top 1% for keepers of all the wealth! Yes, I am opinionated, righteous at times, and outright angry at other times. At my core, though, is love and a strong desire to help people. I enjoy a good joke, and love a funny picture of a cat squeezing itself into a glass jar. I have a voracious creative appetite and an unending curiosity about our world and the life that lives on it.

I love quotes, like Albert Einstein's classic "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." I write books and plays, direct and produce theater, worked lights and sound for dozens of theater shows, got my Private pilot certificate, took ballet and acting lessons, performed in the Nutcracker from age 11-18, came out of the closet at 18 or 19 (the years grow foggy with time), and am a survivor of sexual abuse. Once upon a time, I spent a few weeks getting a bartender's certificate which amounted to nothing, rode my bike 250 miles from Boston to NYC in the first Aids Ride back in some year, have had over 35 jobs in my lifetime, lived in over [ten] places, moved to Seattle from Connecticut, then from Seattle back to CT. And then back to Seattle, and then back to CT, and then finally back to Seattle, where this time I swear, I will stay. Oh, yeah, and I want to perform drag king and I live with chronic pain.

So why should you read this blog? If you've made it this far, then chances are you like my writing style, my sense of humor, or something that sparked your interest. Well, keep reading, and I promise to do my best to keep the material engaging, relevant, entertaining, and maybe even educational. I will write about [topics I will explore]. Blogs will be bi-monthly, so should you choose to subscribe, I won't be flooding your inbox with emails.