A memoir of money. “Do you think I’m made of money?” my dad asked me when I was 10, desperately wanting him to buy me a new tabletop pinball machine with flashing lights, automatic scoring, flippers that lit up, and steel balls. In my mind, this was high stakes, a make-or-break moment for my summer…
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DC Dining (Bisnow)
I guest edited (wrote and photographed) Bisnow’s DC Dining Newsletter. This is the June 15, 2012 edition.
Beat the Heat This Summer
Wallet: check. Phone: check. Portable air fan… wait, what? Summer’s officially here and you’re ready to date (and even get a little hot and bothered… but only in a good way, right?) No one wants any hopes of reveling in a date’s company dashed by the one-two punch of a blistering sun and wilting humidity…
SAGE Celebrates Big Birthday
Sage Celebrates a Birthday: Gay Boomers and Beyond I wrote this to celebrate a big birthday for the best organization for older LGBT.
60th Anniversary of The Lavender Scare
On the 60th Anniversary of The Lavender Scare, Don’t Forget About LGBT Employment Discrimination (April 2013) Did you know that this year marks the 60th anniversary of a witch hunt against gays and lesbians that was as aggressive and vicious as any in modern American history? On April 27, 1953, the President of the United…
Slow Dancing with a Stranger
Blunt, funny and – make no mistake – not out for sympathy, she’s equal parts Florence Nightingale, Dorothy Zbornak and Norma Rae. That’s how I’d sum up Meryl Comer, author of Slow Dancing With a Stranger: Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer’s. Read about her in my Caring.com profile and Q&A. After years of…