What A World

by Nancy Ford I love the work of the late great screen actress Shelley Winters. She was a dual Oscar winner in the 1960s for her unforgettable roles in the landmark films The Diary of…

True, I’m biased—but my sister and her husband are the kind of people you’d just love to hate, but can’t. She’s a model wife, mother, and businesswoman whose work in her own company won her…

Funny now to think how those blue-haired Sunday School teachers of my youth so thoroughly whitewashed the Bible’s dark themes of sex and violence for our tender ears and psyches:

A lovely tree grows right outside my home. Her strong trunk splits in two precisely at second-story balcony eye level, her smooth bark rippling at the cleft, creating a Georgia O’Keefe-esque visual. I call her…

I spent some time in the closet last month. Spring cleaning. Calm down. First, let it be known that I am not a hoarder. I’ve seen snippets of that TV reality show on A&E where…

Unbeknownst to most of you, I have been in a long-term, committed relationship for some time. She was big and bright and loud, yet sleek and trim in all the right places. I called her…

Pastor David H. Grisham, director of Repent Amarillo and Raven Ministries, was full of Christian love during the Christmas season. “A lot of the time we end up giving gifts that people don’t even want,…

When I look back upon the many gay memories that light the gay corners of my gay mind, a few select recollections always jump to the frontal lobe.

Happy holidays, and a hearty ho-ho-ho to you and yours! What is it about this time of year that makes us—well, okay, me—giddier than a four-year-old on Santa’s lap? As if by genetic, ingrained habit,…

Fortunately, it was one of those cervically pre-cancerous situations that was caught early. The problem areas, a couple of clusters of suspicious cells, were found during a standard annual physical exam that I had neglected…