Zio Pino was visiting from Italy. The holiday included an indoor Easter Egg Hunt on a rainy day:
Easter 2010
New House Empty Interior
My friend Ed took these wonderful pictures.
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.
My Mom can’t believe Ricky Martin is actually gay!
Well, it’s about time, Ricky. Even Clay Aiken beat you to it.
Ann Coulter really needs attention…
Something tells me she’s been a rabble-rouser since preschool. I’m not even going to dignify her by restating her obvious attempts to garner attention here, but suffice to say that she is playing the victim game. This woman seriously needs to get laid, and according to her strict moral values she must, of course, be a virgin, because she has never been married.
Watched “Where the Wild Things Are” last night…
really liked it and reminded me of Narnia and Coraline.
Protected: Arizona Trip April 29-May 3, 2010
To my friends and family in Arizona –
I’ll be staying primarily with friends and I will be visiting friends, my niece and my uncle at various times (that’s what the trip to Sedona is for on Monday). I’d like to see as many of you as I can when I’m there, even if you are not going to the Phurfest activities, which is what prompted me to take my first trip to Arizona. My dad grew up there and I have family scattered all over the state. I’m renting a car and arriving Phoenix on April 29 at 530pm. My departure from Phoenix is May 3 at 8pm. Please make sure I have your mobile numbers and that you have mine (917-330-6105). I check texts much more than voicemail.
External Gallery of New Home
Thanks to my friend Ed for taking these wonderful pictures.
Protected: New York May 2010 Details
To my friends in the NYC area —
Please make sure I have your current mobile numbers and other contact information.
I’m arriving at JFK on a red-eye American Airlines flight #18, which departs SFO at 11:25pm and arrives JFK at 7:59am Friday, May 14. I will go directly to work at my New York office and hope to see some of you at Manatus for dinner that evening near Bleecker & Christopher Street. I hope the weather will be nice enough to eat outside. This also means that I will be there for Urban Bear Weekend! Woo hoo!
That entire weekend, the following week and the following weekend I will remain in NYC, based primarily with Max Christopher, my former housemate, and then on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 25 (a day which I will not work), I will fly back to SFO on American Airlines #177, which departs JFK at 5:55pm and arrives at 10:10pm, so hopefully well in advance of the last BART train leaving the airport.
As always, you can reach me via text or voice at 917-330-6105. During the work day you an reach me on my direct work number which also rings my blackberry (even when I’m working in NYC) at 415-875-5229.
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.
