Some Thoughts on Beginning Anew

Other than emails, some projects for work, and a sermon or two, the preceding blog entry constitutes my first public prose in almost four years.

Has this been writer's block?  Not quite. My work for BENT,  twenty-five essays spread across six-and-a-half years, has been a mixed blessing. Thousands of accumulated words, more than enough for an essay collection, permanently archived yet part of transitory individual memories, at once tangible and spectral.

In former years, I told people I was a writer. After all, I did it regularly; people read me, and were in dialogue with me and my work. Then, I stopped. Life got hectic, chaotic, occasionally insane.

I hear a voice in my head, telling me that real writers write all the time......How did writing change from something I did damn well into something I only used to do?

In some alternate universe, maybe I have already published a stimulating essay collection and am already hard at work on a second or third volume of reflections. But not in this reality. Not yet, anyway.


Over the next few weeks, this blog, like Janus, will look both backward and forward.  The DK BENT 25 will be in dialogue with new issues and revisited controversies, and I hope that readers both veteran and new will feel comfortable joining the conversation.

I don't have a clue what might happen.  I just know I needed to start. Come along with me.......

New Directions for the Glorious Fourth

Yes, this blog has existed since last December, as a placeholder, and I am finally christening it. [I need a less sectarian verb, clearly....ah, launching!]

Very well, this blog is now launched......I hope to make this a forum for my writing, both past and future, while providing a virtual space for both commentary and interchange of ideas that goes beyond Facebook.

Some of you may know my writing already, from the webzine BENT: A Journal of Cripgay Voices or the anthology QUEER CRIPS: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories. If I can figure out a fair and respectful way to do so, I'd like to bring my old pieces over to this blog while concurrently trotting out my new stuff.

I am new at this, so I welcome comments and suggestions, and technical assistance.


Let the adventure begin!