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Frequent Flyer

by jwa | Oct 21, 2025 | Life | 0 |

I am convinced my mom signed up for the member rewards program at the hospital near her house....

In or Out

by jwa | Oct 7, 2025 | LGBT, Life | 0 |

National Coming Out Day is just around the corner. (Like no one knows I’m a big ol’ mo.) But isn’t...

Broken

by jwa | Sep 16, 2025 | Food for thought, Life | 0 |

Charlie Kirk is dead. I did not have that on my 2025 bingo card. When the notification popped up...

Stuck in the Loop

by jwa | Sep 9, 2025 | Food for thought, Life | 0 |

Picture it. Valentine’s Day. Cleburne, Texas, 2025. There’s a small kitchen fire in an elderly...

Nancy Needs the Loo

by jwa | Aug 19, 2025 | Food for thought, LGBT, Life | 0 |

Saying life in the U.S. is chaotic feels like an understatement. Especially when every day brings...

Homo Away from Home

by jwa | Aug 12, 2025 | LGBT, Life | 0 |

Dorothy said it best: “There’s no place like home.” And to be clear, that’s The Wizard of Oz...

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

by jwa | Aug 5, 2025 | LGBT, Life | 0 |

Last week, I received two separate messages with the same disturbing news: a trans colleague is...

Sweaty McSweatypants

by jwa | Jul 29, 2025 | Food for thought, Life | 0 |

I should just make that my moniker during the summer. Clearly, I am doomed to suffer every year...

Freedom of the Road

by jwa | Jul 23, 2025 | Food for thought, Life | 0 |

Grandpa Paschall (Dad’s dad) lived into his early 80s, and much to my father’s chagrin, never gave...

Oppressed

by jwa | Jul 15, 2025 | LGBT, Life | 0 |

I was brought up to believe that America is the “land of the free.” Unless, of course, you’re in...

On Bended Knee

by jwa | Jul 8, 2025 | LGBT, Life | 0 |

Get your mind out of the gutter. This isn’t a post about Southern Decadence. My publicist would...

Supreme Stupidity

by jwa | Jul 1, 2025 | LGBT, Life | 0 |

We are down the rabbit hole, and every queer person needs to be concerned about how deep that...

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