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Boston Bound
I visited Boston this weekend to see some old friends. There was a brief moment when I hoped for snow, just for old times sake, but realized I really needed to be back at work on Monday and even if we got snowed in the past was totally gone. We drove though my old neighborhood, […]
Every Cookie Has a Mission…
So say the Girl Scouts. (Full disclosure: I was not a Girl Scout; I was a Camp Fire Girl.) They didn’t have Girl Scout troops in my economically forgotten neighborhood in Boston in the 1950s so the GS phenomenon was only familiar to me through television. So I liked the jaunty neck kerchiefs and khaki […]
I Miss La Rondalla like I’d Miss a Woman
I know it was just a restaurant but I miss La Rondalla like I’d miss a woman. Voluptuous, gritty, innocent and knowing. Plastic flowers in her hair. Dressed up in gossamer Christmas lights along side photographs of men with guns and small game trophies. Diane and I used to go regularly—I was pork and chicken […]
Performative Sexuality
Not being an academic I rarely have the opportunity to use the word ‘performative.’ And it feels good. It conveys the sense of taking a familiar idea to a higher level of significance. With a word like ‘sexuality’ already fairly weighty in US culture you can only go to the head of the class by […]
Martin & Coretta have been to the Mountaintop
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968 I was a teenager sitting in my bedroom. I remember that as clearly as the assassination of JFK. I sobbed and naively thought that his death would mean the country would wake up and repudiate the racism and violence that plague the country. How […]
Apocalypse? …Later
Have you heard this? About the apocalypse coming on 3.21.11? I’m only asking because it seems like we should have heard something by now, that date is not that far away. It’s even closer than the 2012 Mayan shut down date. I saw the movie “2012†and it was not pretty! I hate to start […]
Jewelle Takes Tea
I grew up in Boston so I’ve been drinking tea since I was about 10 years old. My great grandmother used to sip from a Brown Betty tea pot that perched on the back of the stove all day! I love sitting down to a ‘cuppa,’ as they say in Great Britain, especially with a […]
Oh, Immortal Food!
I became a writer for several reasons. Originally it was so I could meet girls, but I’m married now and Diane is not that interested in me bringing fans home! Then there’s being a part of progressive social change. I grew up in the 1960s when poetry and revolution were intrinsically linked. Going through the […]
Baby, Its Cold Outside – and Queer in Here!
In 1944 Tony and Pulitzer award-winning songwriter Frank Loesser (“Guys & Dollsâ€) wrote ‘Baby it’s Cold Outside’ for his wife Lynn and sang it at private parties before selling it to a studio which put it in a movie. It won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Original Song. And it is original. A duet […]
Lesbian on Lesbian Romance
Romance has gotten a bad rap over the years from a lot of sides. Men and literature snobs laugh out loud about “romance†novels which are considered lower than so-called ‘chick lit;’ the idea being that at least in ‘chick lit’ the heroine usually has a job before she has her bodice ripped. Romance has […]
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