5 December Making Family
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Baltimore
Do you recall? The three of you Were somewhat small, your brother but A tell-tale throb within my fast Approaching-forty-year-old…
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Envy’s Open Stage for Consent
On Wednesday nights, Envy T. DeBeaute (aka Billy Vorgias), hosts an Open Stage for young drag performers at The Back…
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Ridicule
It was a perfect winter in Sölln, Tirol. It had been snowing for weeks and now frost glazed the soft…
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First Contact
Upstate New York is known for its heavy snowpack, but on Christmas Eve 1963 my front lawn was brown and…
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Someday
Someday, she would come with the lamp and say it is all I have Someday, I would stand below that…
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For the Love of a Mother
I remember that appointment as if I’d just stepped out of the room. During a turbulent point in time, I…
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Not an Ugly Christmas Sweater
My wife had a great sense of humor and a tremendous capacity for joy, but she was absolutely incapable of…
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Charlie
When I was a child my father was a tower of strength to me, his body was gnarled but strong,…
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My Grandmother’s Legacy
I squinted against the sun, peering over the ship’s railing. The unfamiliar vista of small, dancing wavelets and green hills…
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