Last day for drawing to benefit Octavia Butler scholarship!
The Carl Brandon Society is doing a fundraiser prize drawing to benefit their Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund. Every...
Why I don’t respond to LinkedIn requests
Some years back, I signed up for LinkedIn, because I was pleased to finally see a Social Networking Site (SNS)...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today was the twelfth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance in hundreds of cities all over the world. A couple dozen...
New mobile device
I recently purchased a new mobile device. It arrived in the mail yesterday. It's portable; it can perform all sorts...
Queer-friendly YA?
Mary Anne and I were talking about stuff involving queer characters in YA books, and we had a question we...
Quoted
Thanks to MyS for letting me know I've been quoted in a book: This is the reason why, as blogger...
The cold that’s going around
Yesterday at work, my new manager mentioned that some of her family members seemed to be getting the cold I've...
Two more videos supporting GLBT teens
First, an It Gets Better video from some gay Orthodox Jewish guys. Heartfelt and compelling. (9 min) (via Shmuel) Second,...
Missing parents
Today would have been my father's 71st birthday. It's also the 30th anniversary of my mother's death. I was mostly...
Romance novel report
I mentioned a week ago that Sonya, in consultation with Twig, had loaned me half a dozen romance novels. These...
Sick, tired, and spammed
My blogs came under heavy comment-spam attack tonight—looks like I got about 700 spam comments in the past four hours,...
On scientific dissent
Happened across this while looking up something else: But being a dissenter from orthodoxy is not difficult; the hard part...