I didn’t have a chance to talk about my mother on Mother’s Day, so combining these two posts will have to do. My parents are awesome.  Not perfect or without faults, but they try very hard to be good people.  Even when we screamed and fought when I was growing up, I knew they loved me.  I never questioned that.  I knew they wanted what was best for me, even when we didn’t agree what best was. I have them to thank for growing up feeling loved and supported.  I can thank them f

When “Pain Management” was accepted by Dreamspinner last fall, I came out to my parents about writing gay romance. And (somewhat spontaneously) came out as bi. When it was published in February, they told me how proud of me they were and gave me a beautiful card and wooden jewelry box to celebrate. When they asked to read it I had a mild panic attack and a few weeks ago, I finally gave them a copy. Tonight they told me what they thought. Apparently my mother had thought it wa

I ran across this video today and it really resonated with me. I’ve watched Ash Beckham’s videos before, and she’s always funny, always clever, and always makes excellent points in her speeches. This particular one is about being closeted. Not in the strictly gay sense, but in the sense that all human beings are closeted in one way or another when we hide our true selves from the world. At some point or another, all of us have had a moment where we’ve stepped out of the close