Of Battered Aspect

I was asked to follow the hostess to a table in a restaurant. There were 6 in my party, including me, and I was at the head of the line up. ...

It's been a few days of figuring out, of planning, of phone calling, of double checking. What I mean to say, I guess, is that it's b...

I had my 10 o'clock pear at 8 this morning. I live a lot of my life like that. The cool thing is, I get to make that call. I get to feel...

Apologies are interesting things. I am familiar with giving them, I'm human and I make mistakes. I'm always careful with my words, I...

I was rolling to the gym. I had rolled from the parked car over rough pavement, up the curb and uphill to the entrance and was now easily pu...

I went to a movie the other day, one that I had looked forward to seeing. I was enjoying myself and then something happened. One of the char...

I just crossed the 3.5 million page views mark for 'Chewing the Fat' ... 'Rolling Around in my Head' ... 'A Battered Asp...

When I moved here, one of my first calls was to the transit system to set up wheelchair services to get from work to home. I discovered that...

I love my new home. There are a number of reasons I'm happy there but chief amongst them is the fact that, for the first time since be...

We were having brunch at the food court. Gay men can brunch anywhere. I had picked up my tempeh wrap and was taking my seat. One table over ...

It's hard for me to write about my own relationship with my body. My body has been the subject of so many posts, but always as the objec...

We have a dog visiting us today. He's a big one, about a year old, and is a combination of coiled muscle and impulse decisions. It's...

Zero tolerance for bullying! I hear that so often, and when I hear it, it is said with determination and there is fire in the eyes of the sp...

My father joined the Canadian Forces when he was 19 and served overseas during WWII. This was something he never really talked about with me...

I don't know why I found it so hard to ask, but I did. It took me several weeks, or maybe even months, to make the call. But I did. A ...

When I was a boy. An immature boy. I had no idea of what real adult love was like. And I had no idea of how my own cruelty would stay with m...

I remember the exact moment that the picture  was taken. Joe and I had been visiting my father in the hospital and just before we were leavi...

Photo Description: I am sitting beside my father in his hospital bed. He is holding my hand and we both are smiling. My father died yest...

I was pushing towards the washroom, rushing, when I saw a young mom with her son. He was looking up at her talking. Then he looked and saw m...

He was still young enough to be sitting is a car seat. He probably believes in dragons, and fairies and magic. He is the age where the world...