About a year and a half ago, I reconnected with a friend from high school days. Believe me when I tell you that it has been a LONG time since high school. Ted and I went to two different schools, across town from each other, but had a lot of mutual friends. He was always [...]

This past summer S, SRD, R and I went on a camping trip. As with all female camping trips, this left much time for deep and interesting conversation by the firelight. One of the things we discussed was why lesbians date their friends and remain friends after they break up. It also explains the degrees [...]

S and I sometimes joke about by how many degrees lesbians are truly separated in Portland. At one point, over Gay Pride weekend, we decided it was zero. And S was Ground Zero. Everyone knew everyone and exes were being invited unknowingly into the party dens of the-now-currents-of-the-exes.
Sure, Portland is a great “little big city”, [...]

I didn’t do the “year in review” post that just about every blog out in the blogosphere did. Did you miss it? I didn’t do much of anything in the last week or so. In fact, for the first time in a long time I didn’t even fire up the old laptop to check email [...]