Just got a new laptop. Ok, not JUST got a new laptop… more like, got one 3 weeks ago but was so darned busy with school stuff that I only got to setting it up yesterday.
Ok, wait. Ted only got to setting it up yesterday.
I’m so bad with computers.
Anyway. We haven’t yet figured out how [...]

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That’s the title of a memoir written by the incomparable Marge Piercy. Piercy spoke Friday night at the Literary Arts Festival at one of the colleges where I teach. She was great: cranky, funny, obnoxious, generous– and such an amazing poet. When asked by a student what advice she had for new writers she exclaimed: [...]

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You may have heard a piercing, high-pitched wail coming from San Diego yesterday; it was just me, turning 39 years old.
39
Sigh.
Yes, 39. But I don’t feel a day over 37. Just kidding.
Actually, I really do feel younger than my 39 years. I feel somewhere close to 32 or 33.
I still wear black converse low tops [...]

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Last night, at the community college where I teach Ted and I gave a presentation titled That’s So Gay! for our annual Literary Arts Festival. It was the kickoff event, a reading/interrogation by several of the professors of the school. Our theme for the Lit. Arts Festival this year is The Writer As Activist and [...]

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It’s mine and Ted’s 6 year anniversary today!
We’ve known each other since grad school started in 1999, but we got together in 2002 in NYC.
Here are some pics of our journey:
  First there was Bobby,

  Then there was Teddy,
  Then there was Rob and Ted.
and more Rob and Ted
and still more Rob and Ted
and then [...]

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