Out in Africa.
A life in the arts can be an exhausting proposition. You have to use everything you are and everything you feel. If you don’t, that fear...
My dad.
Ray Triggs, my father, was sexy guy in a fish camp, Jack Daniels kind of way. Even at seventy-five years old, crippled by several...


Cruise Tips - Home Away from Home
I am on the final day of a Panama Canal cruise on DCL. It has been wonderful, but a small case of homesickness has set in. There are...
Interview with Lily Tomlin
When I was a kid, we lived in a house that also housed my father's aluminum siding company. I was a lisping, fat, artistic, gay kid and...
An interview with Bea Arthur.
When I was a kid, I had this twisted little fantasy that the characters on television were my friends. I would talk to them and tell them...


5 Things to Take on Your Next Cruise
After over 150 cruises, I know how to prepare for sea voyage. 5 simple things to consider: Body! Get ready for your trip and the...
National Endowment for the NBA
High school brings back scary memories, doesn’t it? It is hard to be a young gay man or woman navigating through the waters of public...
Drama Queen Bells and Whistles
As both long term readers of this column know, I am genetically predisposed to addiction. Certainly I cannot be blamed for the Capri...
What is art?
What are the arts? What is media? Ask ten people those questions and you will get ten very different answers; but that almost seems...



















