My friend Kim and I have been meeting every Tuesday (when possible – sometimes not at all, other weeks on different days, depending on schedules.  We do what we can when we can, get off my back!) at a coffee shop where we attempt writing.  Sometimes we spend several minutes to an hour of our meeting talking about our lives and respective relationships.  Other times we open our laptops and do our best to put some words to the page.
You can see how productive this has made me.
I have enjoyed …

Happy New Year!!
I have to say, 2012 was hard but it was also one of the best years I’ve ever had.  Valerie and I really made the most out of it, especially considering we continue our weekly jaunts up and down the freeway between Portland and Seattle.  We played at the ocean, camped, went fishing, enjoyed Oregon’s high desert, spent time with our families and friends, floated in lakes, relaxed along rivers and crafted like maniacs.
It seems as if, little by little, things are settling down and falling into place. …

I’m in a mood.  The kind of mood where everything is stupid.
EVERYTHING.
STUPID.
My writing is stupid.  This lamp is stupid. That brownie is stupid.  This chair is SO STUPID.
WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID, EVERYTHING!?
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
But earlier today on the drive home I had a satisfying daydream about telling someone I STRONGLY DISLIKE that she is an awful cunt.  And I guess I’ll take that as a win and let this night fade away with high hopes that tomorrow won’t be so dumb, stupid and dumb.
Also, YOU’RE A CUNT.
Not you, but …

You probably wouldn’t believe me when I say that I come here every day to write, but it’s true.  Behind this little wall is an electronic filing cabinet of bits and pieces of writing that I haven’t managed to complete.  Some are paragraphs long, others are a sentence or two.  I have so much to say and yet I lack the words to say it.  So, instead, I fill up the back room with pieces of the puzzle and hope that maybe one day I’ll figure out how they all …

Hey friends.  I’m back again with my science cap on to teach you more stuff about things.  Do scientists wear caps?  I think I made that up.  Maybe I should have said lab coat and stethoscope and that headband with the shiny metal disc on the top.  Does anyone know what I’m talking about?  Because I sure as hell don’t.
Let’s talk about body fluids.
Body fluids are liquids that are either excreted or secreted from the body.  Excreted means to shit it out, basically.  I’m just going to be perfectly frank …

We listed the condo Friday before last and in the couple weeks leading up to that moment, there was much to do.  SO MUCH TO DO.  There was painting, packing, painting, staging, painting, cleaning, painting, sighing – a lot of sighing, and then MORE PAINTING.  This was not unlike the last time we put the condo up for sale with the notable exceptions of me not losing my mothereffing mind and the things we painted then were different than the things we painted this time.
Janie is currently car-less and she …

I have divorce on the brain.
On the 24th, Janie and I had a court date to finalize the dissolution of our partnership.  Three months ago I finally got around to filing the papers to get this process rolling, postponing the inevitable out of laziness or disinterest, and I am proud to say that we have crossed the finish line.  DIVORCED.
You should have been there the day I told Valerie I was, technically, still married.  AWKWARD!
The truth is that I felt not-married the moment I sat on the couch in the …

Because of Seattle’s SNOWMAGEDDON 2012, the weekend before last was the first  since August that Valerie and I have not been together which, in an ordinary relationship, is probably a welcome reprieve because GET OUT OF MY FACE!  That’s what Valerie will be saying to me one day when we live in the same state and sleep in the same house every night for forever.  And you know what I’ll say to her?  MAKE ME.  And then she will.
Gay on gay violence is real and it’s not okay.
It was really …