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. …

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 …

(I started this weeks ago and intended to post it before Christmas but then I decided to go off my medication (more on that later) and then I got wrapped up in my Christmas craft projects and Christmas decorating and Christmas shopping and Christmas house cleaning and unmedicated Christmas insanity!  So obviously we’re a little belated in the holiday gift guide arena, but you can just bookmark this shit for next year because, really, if you think about it…I’m just ahead of the game now.  I’m posting it 11.5 months …

Well, NaBloPoMo was a rousing failure but I’m still here and I’m going to talk about Portland, crabs, ants and my armpit.
My armpit hurts, you guys.  It feels like it is going to just fall right out from between my arm and whatever the rest of that junk is called – my body, I guess. Pray for me…that my pit will remain and the soreness is not some awful form of cancer wished upon me by my enemies.
On Sunday I returned from a small vacation spent down in Portland with …