If you live within driving distance of Duluth, it makes a great weekend getaway destination. Canal Park is a quaint neighborhood containing restaurants, bars, boutiques and parks. Downtown is a short jaunt up the hill. Mansions line the road to the north, lakeshore properties along the largest lake in the world.
Duluth is [...]

Jim, Dave, Steve and I all had a fantastic time at the Houston Roundup. They’re so hospitable down in the south!
I met a ton of awesome people. Went to a few workshops. Heard some great speakers. Went out to the clubs one night - that was a little scary. [...]

Jim just told his story at the roundup this morning. He was fantastic, as usual. It’s funny how nervous he was last night, tossing, turning, getting up at 2:00 in the morning, when he had it down pat. He’s always great, so I don’t know what he was so nervous of. [...]

I’ve just had a lovely breakfast in the restaurant here in the hotel. The buffet was wo-manned by a charming lady who made a killer omlet, pankakes and waffles. The front page of the Times is continuing to report on yesterday’s story of the Vatican’s new policy to weed out homosexuals from the [...]

I’m in Houston with Jim and Dave, sitting down in the hotel’s business center for the free internet access. Can you believe they want to charge you $10 a night to be online in your room?
I’ve just met David in the business center. He’s sauntered over from the bar where he [...]

It was the Wednesday night before the Thanksgiving holiday. I didn’t have to work the following day and wouldn’t have to be at my parents’ house until the late afternoon, so of course I was at the bar.
A year prior, on this very same night, I had been visiting another fine establishment on Hennepin [...]

… continued from Valentine’s Day Eve, part five.
Entering the group room at the top of the stairs, I sought out the affirmations example sheet and picked a seat as far away from the queen as possible. Assuming affirmations were done in the same clock-wise order as last night’s, I would just about be the [...]

My friend Johnny was just published in the latest issue of Lavender. Full story reprinted here:
Hello, Tina
By Johnny Hess, LADC
It is time for the GLBT community to recognize a nemesis, one that has been gaining momentum in our community and wrecking havoc for too long.
Tina is the most common slang name we have given, [...]

It’s been raining in Minneapolis for the last day and a half. Marvelous thunderstorms accompanied by alternating winds and still air.
God damned that Details magazine! Here I’m sitting at Spyhouse, ready to write a very poinant post, when one of those gawd-damned metrosexuals sits down in front of me. With [...]

In the last month I’ve been asked by two people to be their sponsor. A sponsor is someone with more sobriety time than you who can help you work the twelve steps of AA. They’re there to listen and offer their experience to you in the hopes that it might help you recover. [...]