Some Days, Life is Just Drawsome

Posted by dougwood on May 14, 2012 in Journal | 1 comment ShareI have been so free with sharing some of the struggles I go through from time to time, I thought it only fair that I should say that today, just now, right at this particular moment? Things are really going pretty well. No, there’s nothing new to report on the book front, or the artwork or anything. But the sun is shining and my garden is green, a couple of friendships that had hit a...
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A Birthday Built on Lies and Deception

Posted by dougwood on Dec 24, 2011 in Journal | 9 comments ShareHaving a birthday exactly one week before Christmas was tough for James growing up and so I try make his birthday a special event. No combined, double-size, ‘Christmobirthday’ presents here, my friends. (I know. That’s unlike me. Go figure.) So, last Sunday, December 18th,  thanks to that bunch of deceitful, underhanded, two-faced frauds that we call friends, I threw a...
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Remember, Remember, Remember

Posted by dougwood on Sep 19, 2011 in Journal | 7 comments Share This weekend was my 30th reunion. This is impossible, as I am still just 25 years old, yet it seems to be the case. Class of ‘81. Go Redbirds! And so last Saturday night at Julia’s Banquet Center in East Alton, Illinois (which sounds enchanting…) many of my good friends from those ancient days were getting drunk and rehashing the stupid things we did and the ugly clothes we...
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Edie and Thea

Posted by dougwood on Aug 22, 2011 in Journal | 0 comments Share This clip shows in a very concrete way why Marriage Equality is important for gays and lesbians. These two lovely women were together for 44 years and when Thea died, Edie was left having to pay inheritance taxes that a husband and wife don’t have to pay. It’s not fair. And so with the help of the ACLU, Edie, the surviving spouse, is suing the US government for not recognizing...
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Gay Marriages Rock, or How We Almost Didn’t Get Married

Posted by dougwood on Jun 25, 2011 in Journal | 10 comments Share In the window between when same-sex marriage was legal in CA and when Prop 8 passed, those sunshiny days, James and I got married after 17 years together. How strange it all was, how sudden. We’d been together for nearly a third of our lives but we had only considered that marriage might be in the cards for less than a year. In the 1970′s when I was growing up gay, a dumb...
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