What is it like to be an LGBTQ teenager?
Some thoughts about what it's like to be queer and young and have to contend with the false expectations the dominant society has about you.
Organizations serving LGBTQ youth in the Panhandle
Queer youth can have a rough time bucking the forces that don't like them the way they are and will often punish them for being who they are This article discusses three local organizations that advocate and provide services for these kids.
Downsizing and Packing Up
What's the plan to reduce your glut of stuff after you lose your partner. Are you giving up just stuff or memories too?
Better Call Saul for LGBTQIA+ Rights
Saul Alinsky wrote the book on how to get what you need from your society when the powers that be don't want you to have them. He laid the groundwork for the methods that the ACT UP movement used to poke the government to respond to the AIDS epidemic in the 80's and 90's.
The library: Not about keeping quiet anymore
Book banning may be coming to a library close to home. How does banning a book work and what's library policy in regard to challenging a book?
The Writing Life Late in Life
The story of how I came to call myself a writer and what it does for me.