Tag Archives: Jesse

My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.
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Despite distance

Chris & Rozz & Jesse & Mel (with Jesse's dog Sweetheart) on a Kenai Peninsula hike in 2006 -- & now, all over the place. But still good friends.
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Saying “I Love You” (poem)

Saying “I Love You” Saturday I show him the video of the trip you and I took after we first met.  It was almost four years ago. The tape starts with a pond along the highway to Valdez.  There are swans, a beaver lodge, but of you and I there are voices only. He identifies them — “That’s you!”  “That’s Rozz!” — but [...]
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Same-sex marriage: A personal history

Good news from Maine Wednesday: its legislature passed, & its governor signed, a law making it legal for same-sex couples to marry.  This makes Maine the 5th state in the U.S., after Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, & Iowa, to grant the same civil rights & responsibilities of marriage granted to heterosexual couples, to lesbian & gay [...]
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Dissolve

It was as I’d hoped yesterday: the grey was dissolving. Though it took a night’s sleep to really turn the trick. Not quite enough sleep — I’m still pretty tired — but at least I feel more than dead inside now. Dissolving is very much how it felt, how it often feels when the [...]
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Tramping in the woods

Lichen forest at the foot of a birch tree Just in case my earlier bike jaunt wasn’t enough exercise for the day, we packed me, Rozz, Jesse, Jesse’s dog Sweetheart, & Jesse’s bike (unnamed) into the car & drove out to our old neighborhood in East Anchorage at the very edge of Ft. Richardson [...]
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