Skylar Silly to be Afraid I'm getting married next week. That's really strange. I started this blog in 2007. I did it to "house my thoughts, especially the strange ones.
Church To Be Seen I kept myself busy throughout my life as a coping mechanism. If I was too busy to stop and think, I would be too busy to be afraid. If I
Ridiculous Wedding Venue Our wedding is in like two months which somehow simultaneously sounds stressfully close and impossibly far away. Oh, in case you stopped reading Stranger for a few years and you
Duncan The Alexa (I know. I KNOW. I'm a broken record. But this is the last week. Strangerville Live is THIS FRIDAY. Please come. Meg is telling an embarrassing story. And
Duncan And That's OK We're out on the patio. Skylar is studying. He decided to pursue a masters degree in the summers because apparently he's not sufficiently exhausted by medical
Work How picking up the phone has saved me. I have a new thing: I call people when they send me angry emails at work instead of replying to the email. Truly, for me, the most exhausting part of
Dating From Tinder to Temple Today, please enjoy my long-promised story about my first date with Skylar, which I told onstage at Strangerville Live last month. Written version also below. *****From Tinder to TempleBy
Church Conversion Therapy My state has been debating a bill that would try to ban conversion therapy. As you could guess, this is a topic about which I have some thoughts. I'
Gay Better or Worse I woke up on Saturday morning to tweeted videos of boys from a Catholic school taunting and mocking elderly indigenous people. If you somehow haven't seen this yet,
Gay Skylar Last week I got engayged. That's the same as getting "engaged," except cuter. Skylar made it clear to me a while back that if he was
Skylar The 12 Days of Christmas A present suddenly showed up on our front porch on December 1. We opened it, and soon realized that someone was doing the 12 Days of Christmas for us. Gifts
House There Will Be Some Kids Halloween is a stressful day for me because I so want it to go well but it pretty much never goes well. I want to live in that neighborhood from
Gay National Coming Out Day I was 21, sitting in a parked car with a friend who was several years older than me. I looked up to her greatly. She was an important friend--one
Ridiculous Romy and Skylar's High School Reunion Skylar had his 10-year high school reunion last night so we spent the evening with people who have no memory of the original Jurassic Park movie being in theaters.
Strangerville Live A Locked Car A homeless woman got my attention as I was walking to my car. She was blonde and looked a little rough around the edges, but simultaneously kind. She pointed at the car parked in the middle of the street--something very fancy-shmancy, silver,
Ridiculous Everyone Else is an Idiot Skylar and I have a term to describe someone who is behaving incompetently in the moment. We call them "mall people." But with a strong emphasis on the
Ukraine Woven Tarp Bags A little while ago this thing, that's probably a drug front and is definitely run by the Utah Mafia called "The Beehive" [http://thebeehive.com/], was
The Siblings To Become a Star We had to vacate our Airbnb in Kyiv by 11:00, which was unfortunate because our train didn't leave for L'viv until about 12 hours later.
Movie Review Won't You Be My Neighbor My two older sisters hated it when Trolley started making its way back to Mr. Rogers's house from Make Believe Land. Every episode had the same simple format.
Rebecca A Thing I Decided I Want You To Know I'm pretty gay. I know. You're all shocked. NO ONE guessed this. I'll give you a moment to recover. This is something I just
Bob and Cathie Counseling: What is your earliest memory? I don't know why it came up but recently I was talking with Skylar about my earliest life memories and he basically called me a liar. I'
Work Therapists are better than TV. Except no M.A.S.H. Before we get to today's Strangerville, I have something of a follow-up sponsored post. After I wrote to you about Peggy the Therapist a few weeks ago,
Brianne Peggy the Therapist For a while I've been wanting to write a post about my former therapist, Peggy, but I haven't gotten around to it because TV and Eating and Lazy. It all started when a few years ago Brianne barged into my
Ukraine This is Strange I wandered the city of 3 or 4 million people for a couple of hours, stopping in at an internet cafe for a moment to let my friends and family at home know that I had made it. It was Kyiv Ukraine in 2010,
Palau Seaweed The water moved in and out. Slowly. Methodically. Miles of coral reef prevented it from forming enough critical mass to make waves. The sun was dropping down, settling into an
