Tag Archives: Jesse

My story of 2009

By Mel | Published: Friday, 1 January 2010

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

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 6 October 2009

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.

Posted in Journal, NaNoWriMo | Also tagged Chris, Green-Lieght family, NaNoWriMo 2007, Ptery, Rozz, writing | Leave a comment

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 [...]

Posted in Marriage equality, Ordinance, Poems | Also tagged Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Czeslaw Milosz, Green-Lieght family, Homer Alaska, poem, poetry & politics, road trip, Rozz, same-sex marriage, Terrence des Pres, terza rima | 1 Comment

Same-sex marriage: A personal history

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 9 May 2009

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 [...]

Posted in Alaska politics, Itse, LGBTQ history, Marriage equality | Also tagged Alaska politics, friends, Gene Dugan, Green-Lieght family, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, Jay Brause, lgbtq, Melz history, One in 10, Out North, Ptery, Rozz, same-sex marriage | 5 Comments

Dissolve

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 18 November 2006

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 [...]

Posted in Depression, Journal | Also tagged Battlestar Galactica (TV), grey, Rozz | 2 Comments

Tramping in the woods

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 30 April 2006

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 [...]

Posted in Fitness, Journal | Also tagged Fort Rich woods, Green-Lieght family, plants, Rozz | 1 Comment