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Sexuality More Static Than Previously Thought
Alfred Kinsey (Great biography here) I’ve thought for a long time that human sexuality was fluid, that there were a nearly infinite number of forms. Much of that thought was based on information from Alfred Kinsey’s landmark studies back in the 60s, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. A new study…
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Please Stop Calling Gayness a ‘Lifestyle’
Okay, straight people, listen up. Gayness is not a lifestyle. It’s not a choice. It’s not a preference. It is a biological condition. A genetic manifestation. Innate. Something you’re born with. X Chromosome According to biologists the X chromosome and chromosome 8 seem to be heavily involved in determining sexuality. There is a great deal more to be learned but genetics is,…
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A Grandparent’s Dilemma
My poor grandson has developed the same thing his poor mother, my daughter, had, and it sucks. My daughter had childhood asthma that lasted well into adulthood, as it sometimes does. I remember so many times how absolutely petrified I was whenever she had an asthma attack, struggling to breathe, the tissues over her collarbone…
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As Fate Would Have It (A Story of Love Damn Near Missed)
Once upon a time, a lovely couple my wife and I know—let’s call them Brian and Kathy because, you know, that’s who they are—met under the most delightful circumstances, circumstances that might have never happened at all but for a barrage of fateful moments. Moment #1: Let’s Call It ‘The Point of Contact’ Brian, a…
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Gotta LUV That Spam!
And now, a short piece composed entirely of sentences and phrases of e-mail subject lines of spam messages I’ve actually received. No lie.
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No Politics on the Golf Course!
So today I played a round of golf with three very pleasant guys. (I played horribly. I think maybe I was going back too far in the backswing, I’m not sure. But I digress.) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.Politicians on the course, good. Political talk on the course, not good. They were very pleasant indeed. One of…
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Maybe It Won’t Be All Right
Donald Trump, a despicable human being, won the presidential election last night, and I am scared out of my mind about what he might do. How many troops will die in a war he is almost certain to start? How many poor people will die without the care they would have received from the Affordable…
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Rock, Paper, Scissors. Garbage.
Okay, I admit it. I have no clue how Rock, Paper, Scissors works. I mean, I know Scissors beats Paper. It can cut paper, so it wins. But what’s the deal with Rock? I mean, doesn’t Rock win all the time? It can beat the bejeebers out of Paper, certainly, and can absolutely destroy Scissors.…
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Getting Ready to Rumble! Or, You Know, Write.
My first two weeks of retirement have been spent partly getting used to being retired and mostly working around the house, doing a bunch of things I needed to do and normally would have done on weekends. Well, I’m almost finished with those kinds of things and will soon be really digging into my writing.…
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Newly Retired and Loving It…So Far
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes I’ve been hugely fortunate in my life to do the things I’ve wanted to do and get paid for them. I loved my time as an operating room technician (now called a surgical technician). I loved most of…
