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, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....