Decisive Summer: Jul 8th 2014: Raleigh 4 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm

For reasons that should be obvious, this is far from my best writing. And, in fact, I've avoided writing these journals because I knew I'd not be able to do justice to the experiences. But the time ha...

Long weekend in Massachusetts with Ben 5 Jul 2013 | 07:10 am

Jul 4th, 2013, flight from RDU to Boston It makes me sad to reflect I’ve quite lost any inspiration I had to write. My blog entries are so few that I mostly constrain them to report – in brief – my m...

cactus surgery (or Suburban Life part II) 2 Jul 2013 | 10:42 pm

Sunday night, 4.20 a.m. - well, really, early Monday morning ... There's a freedom I realize I've missed. I've  been living for Ben for eight years, during which time, we've been through a range of e...

The Wild Blue Yonder ... moving to North Carolina 15 Jun 2013 | 09:26 am

Little, indeed, did I expect that Ben and I would return to long-distancing, as we did during the first six months of our relationship, in 2004. Yet things have moved on apace: I'm in North Carolina f...

The New New 25 May 2013 | 10:50 pm

The edges of dawn are stealing through the blinds of our guest room in our friends' house in Palm Springs, and I'm still unable to sleep, despite the ministrations of a friendly bottle of Smirnoff by ...

The End of all Things: Last few days in England: the Lakes: Photos 14 Apr 2013 | 09:50 pm

If I don't take this opportunity to write The Great British Blog of my trip - on an eleven hour flight from London to Los Angeles in First Class (purchased using air-miles) - then I should have my wri...

More photos from Dublin and surroundings 9 Apr 2013 | 11:36 pm

When I originally thought I might write a full blog about our Ireland jaunt, I was worried about how I was going to make it through without subjecting the Irish to the usual torrent of abuse they come...

The Quays, Dublin, sunset on a frigid April evening: photographs 7 Apr 2013 | 12:32 am

Tales of Mayfair 5 Apr 2013 | 11:58 pm

I ardently wish I'd had the time and forethought to catalog and compile the impressions and conclusions formed on this trip - now over a week in duration - to the British Isles. Time was, traveling wa...

Whitehall at Dawn 5 Apr 2013 | 03:14 am

Ben and I are crashing, for one night, at a flat - belonging to friends of my brother Neil - a literal stone's throw - or RPG launch (depending on your political proclivities) from 10 Downing Street. ...