If you’re a baby boomer, you’re at the point in life where, if you haven’t actually entered retirement, you’re at least approaching the outskirts. Yes that “dreaded” 65 is here or at least near. But if you’re like many of your fellow boomers, you may be experiencing more than a little trepidation over your financial […]
Love. The most elusive and misunderstood emotion. And the one thing that everyone searches for. But, to quote 80s pop star Howard Jones, what is love anyway? We know its a many splendored thing, but what does that even mean? What else are you splendoring these days? Love permeates every cell and pore of our
Call this one a Life Lesson. Every once in a while, in the midst of our daily routines and our complaints about life’s minor aggravations, an unexpected loss shocks us into realizing just how very fragile — and very precious — life is. My friend Paul Chase died last month in a senseless automobile accident.
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Dear Mz. Pink, My girlfriend started working out a while ago and has been really dedicated. Although I’m proud of her, I thought she would be more into sex and wanting to be with me intimately once she started to feel more energized and better with her health. It seems that the opposite has taken
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In the world of theatre there is a saying: “dying is easy — comedy is hard”. Simply put, it means that it is much easier to play a death scene than it is to make people laugh. Comedy is a broad spectrum and what seems funny to one person, may not even be the slightest
Dear Dr. Fred: My partner and I have been together over 20 years in a monogamous, committed relationship. While we support marriage equality and have many gay friends who have married in other states, we’ve never felt the need to get married or even have a commitment ceremony ourselves. For one thing, we don’t feel
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Whoa… not so fast! As the celebration of marriage equality winds down our community appears poised to pivot toward, and bring the primary focus of our formidable influence, to the fight for passage of the newly introduced Equality Act, which would provide more comprehensive protections against anti-LGBT discrimination than its predecessor the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
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Welcome to the new Marriage Equality Watch! We started life on January 1st, 2008 as Gay Marriage Watch. At the time, the term “gay marriage” was the most-used term to describe marriage between a couple of the same gender. The phrase “marriage equality” existed at the time – I just checked our blog, and we
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Sarah Silverman is in hot water over a video she did to comically highlight the alarmingly high wage gap between men and women in this country. Some transgender activists found it insensitive and took it literally. The video is almost four minutes long, but it can be summed up in the following few sentences: “Every year
I spy with my little eye…outrage! Read More »
I picked up my 20-something son, David, at the Metro a few weeks ago. After he got into the car, he put out his hands towards me, and asked: “Do you like this color? Kind of a deep purple. I get a lot of compliments on it.” Yes, David wears nail polish — bright, glossy,
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