I feel that I am letting this blog go. I just don’t have the interest or feelings to write much.
As an update for readers, however many remain, this is an update on a big happening that transforms my life:
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Last week, the boss exclaimed, “time to see the cherry trees! Let’s go to Hains Point on Thursday for a picnic and see the cherry trees over there instead of hassle with the crowds at the Tidal Basin.”
When the boss gets this way, there’s no curbing his enthusiasm with logic.
“Uhhh, boss, peak bloom is next week. I hear that the trees aren’t blooming yet.”
But since he will be on international travel during the week that peak bloom will occur, and he has the time available on Thursday, decision was made…
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While caregiving for The Spouse during a crisis period yesterday, I had some time in between bouts of extreme emotion, frustration, anger and pain to crop and post photos of …
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Hi, loyal blog readers. This post is a little delayed. Spouse is sick. Again. Always. Even for this very patient person, the ongoing complaints about chronic problems is taxing on my soul. We have seen over 60 specialists now (over four years), and had countless tests done. The results…
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I am back to my 2016 bah-humbug self. The shot of Christmas Spirit from visiting with my friends last Saturday night and going Christmas caroling for the 44th year in a row has withered.
Some readers are not aware that I live in the news market for Washington, DC. As such, national news is local news. I’m surrounded all the time with “news” about the incoming tragedy to be effective January 20, 2017.
This “news” is unavoidable in my area. It’s in the ozone and the air (which for now is breathable, but not for long once the destructionists and deniers become federal government agency heads). It evokes great sadness…
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Since I visited Washington DC on March 23 and took photos as a brilliant red dawn occurred, I had posted one photo per day on social media. This one picture, not previously posted here, was shared and “liked” by hundreds. The winner is…
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The other day, my boss suggested that we all go on an outing. Where and why?
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I stumbled upon an interview in the local DC gay newspaper with a guy who married a local TV news guy. He was asked a set of questions that, to me, were focused on his sexual orientation and his answers portrayed him to fulfill all of the stereotypes that gay men have been saddled with. Uggghhh…. So here goes — my answers to the same questions.
1. How long have you been out and who was the hardest person to tell?
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My website’s cowboy boots collection and this blog receive a lot of visitors from men who are curious about whether or not it is acceptable to wear cowboy boots with a suit or dress clothing to a professional office, especially in stodgy, drab, dull, fashionless and conservatively dressed Washington, DC.
Recently, I received another email from a DC-based office professional who went on a business trip to Texas and bought himself a pair of nice boots, then began to question his decision after his girlfriend made some comments after he returned home with them. The email said:
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Of the various themes of my writing on this blog, boots, motorcycles, and cops are dominant. After all, I AM the one-and-only “Booted Harleydude.”
I posted on May 11 that I rode for the 10th year in the annual “Law Ride” in Washington, DC. That event was held Sunday, May 10. However, after the event, I…
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