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Last night, I got to see Grindr: The Opera at the Above the Stage theatre in Vauxhall, South London. I’ve seen several shows over the last few years at the Above the Stag theatre, but this is one of their first shows in a new and much improved (and air conditioned)…

”To die would be an awfully big adventure!” Peter Pan offers this classic line when he’s stuck on Marooner’s Rock, having been injured by Hook. Later, when Hogan remade a version of Peter Pan as a film, he introduced the line, “To live will be an awfully big adventure!” While I…

(Post 1 of 2 on Call Me by Your Name) I wanted to write about Call Me by Your Name before we’d finished watching the opening credits, and it’s taken me more than a month (and about five viewings) before I could do it. As I start this piece, I’m…

It’s Sunday morning, and the rain is falling all around our little beach house. Around me, teachers are tapping away on their computers, talking about curriculum and change in their schools, stopping from time to time to be annoyed at yet another thing that is getting in the way of…

It has been some time since I last wrote a blog post. Blogs were still a “thing,” then, I think, and while Tumblr and other microblogging tools had emerged, they hadn’t yet become the primary method for individuals to share brief snippets of their lives. Nor were blogs the province…