Dear Grandchildren, Know Tank Man
I've always had in mind that my blog would be a way for my future grand children to know me in the event that they don't actually get to know me. If I could read a blog by my late Grandma, kept through the years of her life, I would give just about anything I own to do that. I always feel compelled to talk to my posterity - to encourage them and let them know that they are ever in my thoughts and prayers. So from today onward, I will occasionally post a "Dear Grandchildren" post just for them. Here is the first one:Kids, this morning, I was watching some music on VH1 while I was trying to cajole my computer to work when the new Bon Jovi video came on. It's called

The Spoiled Under 30 Crowd
I got this in my e-mail the other day and it just made me giggle! I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did:.THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!.When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning....uphill... barefoot...BOTH ways. Yadda, yadda, yadda! And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell

A Conversation With the Lost
.. .I had an encounter with two lost men at Atlanta’s Pride weekend. I spotted them when I was marching with my P-FLAG group in the Gay Pride Parade. They were the ones not cheering, but instead,

I Got Married
This past Wednesday, Melissa & I went to a United Church of Christ and got married. .It was the two of us with the minister. It was the most simple and beautiful thing I have ever been a part of. We opened with prayer, the minister read 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 -.

Why Gays Should Have Their Parades
Before I came out, I used to hear people say things like, "Fine if you're gay, but do you need to march in a parade over it? I mean, there aren't any heterosexual parades!" .Tru dat... but isn't every day hete