Welcome to my Substack

Welcome to my Substack.

This format is new to me. Sharing my thoughts is not.

Key moments in my life keep recurring to me, and we know that when our thoughts circle back to specific moments again and again, there is some important truth we are struggling to see. I operate on that theory, anyway.

My key moments bear the particulars of my time and place: an older, white, gay male, who can remember life before the Stonewall riots ushered in some tolerance – or at least some elbow room. Whose childhood mysteries were wrapped in Latin. For whom some lived experiences occurred in other languages and other cultures.

Someone who remains engaged in our world still, where “otherness” and “intersectionality” and “sexual orientation” often overshadow our search for universal truths.

If this format works, I will have struck back a bit against such pigeon-holing.