A conversation today highlighted something I have often thought about. I have always been someone who errs on the side of giving unnecessary information. It has always been easy for me to spill my guts, to tell the story in great detail, to spin out the yarn. My friend Eileen says that I am one […]
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Originally published in 2001. Many of you are familiar enough with my penchant for confrontation to understand that I was quite a presence at my ecumenical Protestant theological school, at which I regularly introduced myself in new classes as a post-Christian Pantheist Pagan UU and explained briefly what that meant. I was just trying to
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Originally published in 2000. A couple years ago I shared with this list my journey of having been diagnosed with diabetes and the adjustments I was making. Over the months, I discovered that my blood-sugar levels were in the normal range and stopped treating myself, and when I moved to California, my doctor there said,
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THE NAMES OF KHRYSSO: A BIT OF BACKGROUND FOR THE FAERIE COMMUNITY First posted to the Radical Faerie e-list hosted by QueerNet.org, June 2000. I’ve told this story before, but it keeps evolving. My parents named me Christopher Robert Wagner. Christopher because I was born two weeks before Christmas and Robert after my
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Originally published in 2000. During my first year in college, I lived in the unique Stadium Scholarship Dormitory at The Ohio State University. The late lamented Stadium Dorm had been built into the very walls of Ohio Stadium, literally under the west bleachers, in a vast and esoteric network of halls, usually-windowless dorm-rooms that often
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Originally published in 2008. Been thinking a lot about the economic meltdown and my own poverty. Fact is, I’ve learned so well how to be poor that the global financial crisis isn’t affecting my lifestyle a whole lot—I’ve been surviving on next to nothing for so long that it doesn’t much matter if the world
Originally published in 2008. For some reason lately I’ve been thinking about Transactional Analysis, or TA. Being a bookish (read: nerdy) child of the ’70s, I came of age in the days of I’m OK—You’re OK, and because it was on the New York Times Bestseller List during my junior-high years, when I became old
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