Crossroads
May 19, 11
I have a fairly weighty decision to make... Do I trade happiness for security, or do I take a leap of faith?
read moreYou Complete Me
May 09, 11
It's one of the most recognizable phrases in an Oscar-winning movie. That sentence, and the dialog that surrounds it, is seen by many as a beautifully romantic declaraion of love... And it's rubbish.
read moreIsolated
Mar 23, 11
Ugh. I started a long rambling post about depression and isolation in an attempt to figure out what’s had me so down lately. I was a thousand words in when I figured out what the problem is. So I’ll make that long story short and focus instead on what I need to do to fix it… Short version: I have felt, the last few weeks,...
read moreFacebook Friendship
Jan 11, 11
My policy on Facebook friends has been a very relaxed one, very lazily enforced. Officially (in my own mind) I don't accept friend requests from people I've never met (either online or in person), unless that request is accompanied by a message explaining why the individual wants to be Facebook friends with me. In practice, though, I tend to accept a friend request from a stranger if we have enough friends in common. As a result, I have a friend list that contains quite a few people I've never met, never communicated with, and know nothing about. Should I do something about that?
read moreHaircut
Jan 07, 11
As of three days ago I had gone exactly three months without a haircut. It was getting ridiculous. It was sort of a cost-cutting decision… I had been going to a stylist named Eddie in Sugarhouse who charged $35 per cut (and $45 for color, and $15 to wax the insides of my ears—which is a lot faster than tweezing!). And even...
read moreNew Year, New Blog
Jan 05, 11
It's been suggested (in comments on my other blog) that I take my blog in a different direction—that I write more generally about my life and focus less on topics relating to homosexuality or the LDS church. A great idea! But in addition to a change in direction I'm interested in a little bit of closure... So as of now Dichotomy (Mormon in the Closet) is, for all intents and purposes, inactive. I'll leave it up for posterity, but I'll likely not be posting to it anymore. With this new blog (and with the new year) I hope to be more prolific in posting. Happy New Year!
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