Living with other people

After three years of living alone, I moved in with a family of five.  Living in their guesthouse was to be a temporary solution, until I slowly found myself falling in love. They were a fascinating cast of characters.  There was the father, a monosyllabic warm-hearted man, the wife, a Auntie-Mame style college professor, the [...]

Simplicity

It has been a busy weekend. I shopped, I lunched, I dinnered.  I prayed.  I met new people.  I flirted– just a tad.  I laughed.  I teared up watching a play. 
Driving home from another busy Sunday I looked up to see the sky starting to change colors.  It’s been smokey here in Los Angeles; fires rage [...]

Why prop 8 is breaking my heart

Proposition 8 is breaking my heart. For my non-Californian readers, Prop 8 is the ballot proposition that amends the constitution to limit marriage to a union between a man and a woman. It comes just a few months after gay marriage was legalized.  In the lead up to the national presidential election, the prop 8 [...]