As we drove home with our new tiny human, the first thing my just-pushed-a-baby-out brain picked up on was the canola fields. A solid green mass on my way into the hospital, they were in full bloom on our way home. After the muted tones of the hospital–the pale green pallor that tints everything inside [...]
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The obligatory baby name post
Posted in let us give thanks, spawn, the story of gay, with child on August 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Full disclosure
Posted in mark, nathan, spawn, the story of gay on February 11, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I was 20 minutes early for the business workshop, and so was the woman who shared my access card to get into the auditorium.We had a pleasant enough conversation; both of us worked in the same field for companies in similar industries, we were about the same age and temperament… for an awkward shoot-the-breeze-with-a-stranger-you’ll-never-talk-to-again arrangement, [...]
Divorcing the gay
Posted in let us give thanks, mark, nathan, the story of gay on June 14, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It was supposed to happen in January. Then it was supposed to happen in March. Then I postponed it to April. Now, six months later, we have finally filed our divorce papers. We’ll hear back in six to eight weeks about whether or not it will go through–the clerk expressed some disbelief that they wouldn’t [...]
An anniversary of happenstance
Posted in let us give thanks, mark, nathan, the story of gay on May 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A year ago, the heterosexual man and I were looking for a house. The condo I shared with the gay one was up for sale and the views were ticking up at an average of about one a week. While we were encapsulated in the eternal process of waiting for someone to like the condo, [...]
The other man
Posted in mark, nathan, the story of gay on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Three-and-a-half years ago, I set up a profile on a dating site and promptly began wading through some very sad representations of men. Most were painfully unintelligent. Some didn’t use proper words (anybody who asked ‘how r u’, for example, was automatically stricken from the list of possibilities), some were 40 years older than me [...]
Weirdness confirmed
Posted in let us give thanks, the story of gay on March 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I like to think of myself as a person with a good work ethic. When I say I’m working from home, I actually do work. So I didn’t feel guilty for my failed work-at-home attempt last week: with the car stuck halfway down the driveway and the internet down, there was no way I could [...]
An important thing to remember
Posted in the story of gay on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In the mixed-feeling land that is a divorce from my best friend in the whole world, I must keep one thing in mind: nothing changes. We are only telling the government to get out of our partnership.
A first date
Posted in the story of gay on March 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The goatee’d twenty-something downed the last third of his beer in one gulp. We were sitting at some bar in downtown Spokane, and I was watching light reflect on bottles behind the counter, kicking my feet against the rail of my chair as my date regaled me with his top five failures, along with detailed [...]
Truth and lies in Winnipeg
Posted in the story of gay on February 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I am sitting in the room where my whole life changed. Four years and one month ago–in this exact hotel room–The Gay One unveiled his secret. I had already known that something was up. He had been moody and distant for a few months, often frustrated with things that didn’t matter. Finally, at my urging, [...]
Fa la la la la fel (2010)
Posted in mark, nathan, the story of gay on December 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Christmas and I have never gotten along in the past. The hype, the obligatory gift-buying, everyone’s belly full and swollen from too much heavy baking–all the attempts to make a memorable occasion always had a desperation about it that made me sad, as if people were just checking items off a list they didn’t create [...]
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