I got a 2002 Buick LeSabre with only one previous owner and only 69k miles on it. It’s a V6, so it should last a long time, and seems to be in fantastic condition.
Category Archives: Family
Daughter got her driver’s permit finally
Now for the license so I can send her to the store to run errands!
She got her permit after passing the written; they are backlogged 45 days at our local DMV for the behind-the-wheel so she will inquire with other locations.
Daughter passed her written driving test!
She now has an official California driver’s permit and will hope to have her license within a month.
Family in Phoenix & Sedona, Arizona – May 1-3, 2010
My niece Kristal lives in Phoenix. We had lunch last Saturday morning at Thefarmatsouthmountain.com, an organic farm with three restaurants, including a breakfast cafe, where we ate al fresco. It was conveniently located between her place and where I was staying with friends in Laveen.
Then, on Monday, we drove up to see Uncle Danny Stief (of Sedonatalkradio.com). He gave us a great tour of that stunning area, explaining to us about the vortexes and other metaphysical anomalies in the area (making Kristal’s name quite appropriate). We had lunch and then Kristal and I drove back to Phoenix in time for me to catch my flight back to San Francisco. On the way to Sedona, however, Kristal and I were talking so much that I forgot to get gas, and so to be sure we didn’t have to walk in the desert heat, I let the car coast down a mountainside for about eight miles to get to the next town to fill up!
Sedona is magnificent everywhere you look, with it’s vortexes and it’s manmade and natural monuments. It was great to see my uncle, who is a talented singer, and touched Kristal and me with a few live performances of Elvis songs. It was the first time Kristal and he met each other, so I was glad to facilitate their meeting and for us all to learn more about other parts of our family.
I’m also glad to have a nice base tan from Arizona last week for the two weekends in NYC I’m going to enjoy later this month!
My daughter’s 18th birthday
Everything seems to happen at once. Alex turned 18, we moved into a new place, she takes a road trip to Los Angeles; she’s graduating high school and getting her driver’s license within two months, etc.
Guest rooms galore at Hotel Hayden
Not only do we have a semi-private living room area with a pull out queen size bed, but now we have a bona fide fourth bedroom for guests with a bed set up in the basement where the landlord’s son used to stay. It’s actually quite cozy, and I’m so glad that we have so much space to accommodate people if they want to visit us.
I’ll be videotaping a video tour of the new place soon.
Easter 2010
Includes an indoor Easter Egg Hunt on a rainy day:
Protected: Alex’s 18th Birthday/Housewarming Party! SAVE THE DATE
For those of you who don’t know, we just moved into a new house in Cherryland (Hayward). Alex is turning 18 the same month, so we are having a party to celebrate moving into our new home and Alex’s emancipation!
WHEN: 2pm-9pm on Sunday, April 18, 2010
WHERE: 914 Blossom, Cherryland (Hayward), CA 94541
Please RSVP via email (commenting here works) or mobile 917-330-6105 (text or voice).
If you can’t make it, fear not; we will be having another party for Alex’s high school graduation in June and then Joe’s birthday in early July.
RIP Gene Baugh
You were my friend with whom I had so much in common for so many years. You were a rock. I can’t believe this.
Just got terrible news about losing one of my closest gaydad friends in the world, Gene Baugh, in Columbus, who raised his five kids. I read his autobiography, although I don’t think it was ever published. He was a huge fan of the Spanish language and had spent time in Spain in his youth. I flew to Columbus to be in his marriage to a man in 1998, and he and I also spent time together at various gay parenting conventions around the country. We originally met in 1996 in Minneapolis and stayed in touch quite regularly the whole time, sharing the drama of our kids and our lives before and after coming out. He was only 56, and a big bear of a man (also very tall).
His daughter, Ruth, who lives on the West Coast now, as I do, went with my daughter and me to our first Provincetown Family Week. Ruth and I recently got back in touch with each other and today she emailed me with the news that he had been taken off life support as he had requested be done if he should ever be in this state. He had a stroke on Friday.
Daughter said she realized her father was a “genius”
Yesterday when she learned in environmental science that tap water is cleaner than bottled, and that was something that I had advised her of a long time ago. Moreover, bottled water I learned can seep plastic into the water when left in a hot car trunk, for example, over time.