One afternoon in K-mart, my father and I stood waiting in line. He was purchasing tube socks for running, and some small blue toy for me. He turned from the pages of a Hollywood tabloid and asked me, "You know the reptile house at the zoo?" Did I! Rows of

It's gotten harder to be a gay man. Not because of the marriage equality issue; not because of medieval-minded right-wingers like Rick Warren; not because the pandering of politicians to the gay community appears to have less substance than ever before. It's gotten harder to be a gay man because

Student: "What will be the undoing of humanity?"

Guru: "The space between you and me."

A new word has been born. Any new word brought into the world carries with it a grand potential, but also a very certain terror. A new word allows us to recontextualize old concepts, to

You know me. I tend to be a bit grumpy, a little on the curmudgeon side. I'm far more Gargamel than Smurf. Maybe I developed this frowning pragmatism during my adult life, or maybe it's been with me all along. I inspect things, I accept complication (even embrace complication). I