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By dint of life, my blog has become the place where, once a year, I publish my feelings and thoughts about Matthew Shepard and his murder in Laramie, Wyoming, back in 1998. The thing is, of cou...

https://www.elmada.com/2024/10/12/matthew-shepard-26-years-later/

So, this is the second 25 years later post I’ve written. The first was a 500 word vomit produced in about 20 minutes. Disjointed. Disorganized. The fact is, I am in Laramie, Wyoming, this wee...

https://www.elmada.com/2023/10/12/25-matthew-shepard-25-years-later/

A decade ago I reflected on reading “I am J” – the first book I had read focusing on transgender individuals. At the time, it was one of the few books I had read that took on being transgen...

https://www.elmada.com/2023/06/28/better-than-i-am-j-the-passing-playbook/

Last fall when Twitter started being destroyed, I set up an account on Mastodon – and after an initial burst of activity on Mastodon, I have reverted back to my Twitter-scale of use. (In other ...

https://www.elmada.com/2023/04/20/to-the-stars-i-saw-george-takei-in-london/

Back in November I took a week long vacation to Maine and Boston with a friend. We didn’t need a car for the Boston part of the trip, but the Maine portion need one. After landing in Boston, ...

https://www.elmada.com/2022/12/08/the-main-maine-problem/

In 2022, ordering something is super easy with constant updates. I get an email confirming the order, I get an email telling me my order has been shipped. Then I get an email from the delivery ...

https://www.elmada.com/2022/11/01/paper-ordering-forms/

Wow. Today marks 24 years since Matthew Shepard died. It remains difficult to write my thoughts about him every year, some of this is because I feel like I am being a bit repetitious, some of...

https://www.elmada.com/2022/10/12/24-matthew-shepard/

Last October I popped over to Saarbrücken for a weekend, gong there to see the Völklinger Hütte — A UNESCO World Heritage Site that, from a distance, seemed pretty cool. It turns out I found...

https://www.elmada.com/2022/09/10/volklingen-ironworks-a-cynical-take/

In July, I decided that I needed to plan a weekend in Vienna in order to, uh… escape the heat of my apartment for an air conditioned hotel room in Vienna. Yup, I specifically sought out air con...

https://www.elmada.com/2022/09/05/weekend-in-vienna/

I spent last weekend in Essen with a friend. The raison d’être for the trip was the Zollverein, a coal mine that has been turned into a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I’m that kind of weird....

https://www.elmada.com/2022/08/24/essen-well-worth-a-visit/