Tag Archives: Ptery

Recalibration

I’ve been mostly silent on my blog for the past month, & here’s why: to recalibrate & get back on track with my own purposes in life & on this blog. Continue reading

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The Daily Tweets, 2010-05-28: Ptery arrives

Just picked up my ex Ptery-formerly-Rozz at airport, had bfast @ Beartooth, now – both of us having not slept last night – about to nap. #fb #

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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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Tributaries (poem)

I was offline most of — well, now I’ll say yesterday, Saturday, it now being early in the AM of Sunday the 14th.  Saturday was the kick-off of this year’s PrideFest in Anchorage — the annual women’s show called Celebration … Continue reading

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We are all, or none

Anchorage pollster Ivan Moore suggests the Anchorage Assembly remove “gender identity” and “gender expression” from coverage under the proposed equal rights ordinance — in order to get the rigid right to agree. Sorry. I won’t throw my trans sisters & brothers under the bus. And I’m not alone.

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Divorce, financially interdependent partner style

Today is the final day of the University of Alaska system’s annual Open Enrollment period, when we have the opportunity to make changes to the various options in our benefits package. And so it came to formalize what Rozz, now … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Ptery's recent Nevada travels

Austin, NV to Silver City, NV — overnight last night just outside Fallon. Prior to Austin, he was in the Round City, NV area (per my post a few days ago), & both before & after Round City was around … Continue reading

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Round Mountain, NV

Here’s around where Ptery, formerly my partner Rozz, is now. He called me up to get help with directions. View Larger Map

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