Road Trip! (Monday July 21)

The story so far... Prelude Monday, I go to work as usual.On OkCupid, they ask a question for the profile: name six things you can't do without.  I've noticed that about a third of the responses to this question include "my iPod."  This includes me.  When I saw how common that response was, I thought about removing…

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Road Trip! (Prelude)

I have a friend who works as an actress at Renaissance Faires.  ("Excuse me. I'm not an actress. I'm a performer.")  OK, I have a friend who's a performer at Renaissance Faires.  Let's call her H.H was at a Ren Faire in Texas last April, working with her touring partner.  The two of them had a disagreement. …

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Polyamory: my views

I was going to entitle this post “What polyamory means to me,” but I thought that sounded too much like a grade-school essay: “What democracy means to me,” “What America means to me,” “What freedom means to me.”  Perhaps we can consider this post as one of a series that I started forty years ago in elementary school.

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It’s over… almost

The Forest of Fear ended this past weekend. After reading at the New York Renaissance Faire for two months, and reading at the Forest of Fear for one month, my cycle of doing paid Tarot/Rune/Palm readings is over.This means that I've got my weekends back again. This coming weekend I'm going to veg out, watch a DVD…

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Forest of Fear again

I wasted a good worry. The tent's heat is wonderful! (...if I do say so myself; I bought a catalytic heater.) The noise was much less than I remembered. The guy with the shotgun doesn't seem to be there this year. I stood outside my booth, demonstrated a little sphereplay, and chatted with folks. I had a…

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