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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. Continue reading

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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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Diversity, unity, family

Mayor Dan Sullivan claims, with his Mayor’s Unity Dinner, to be honoring values we all share, including the importance of family. But his veto last month of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance makes it clear that he only deems some families important — and mine’s not one of them.

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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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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 … Continue reading

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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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