Highlights

6 posts

2021

How to Fall in Love with a Friend

September 14, 2021
Can I touch your hair? / She asks me / A strange question indeed / We’re standing next to one another / At Ocean Beach / Atop the O'Shaughnessy…

Brooklyn, c. 1985

August 30, 2021
They don’t tell you in San Francisco / That East Coast nights don’t cool down in the summer / Not in Augusta / But not in Brooklyn either / I…

2020

Staying home

April 26, 2020
I’ve been wearing the same shorts for a week now / Just noticed they’re actually swim trunks / Money is acting all weird / I paid my stylist not to…

2019

I've known since my early 20s, so this is long overdue. In honor of Pride...

June 6, 2019
Month and my 43rd birthday, I'm coming out as bisexual. For twenty years I've been an "invisible queer." And not just because I hadn't told very many…

2018

The Post-Facebook Internet

April 17, 2018
The recent Facebook scandal—in which Cambridge Analytica obtained 50 million Facebook users' personal data—really shouldn't have been such a big…

2015

Rigatoni e Polpette

October 11, 2015
I've heard that the fastest road to a man's heart often leads through his stomach. If that's true, Rigatoni e Polpette is the vehicle that will get…