The pictures are me at 12, 16 and 8 years old. Notice how my hair color changed each time? Now look at my profile picture. I started going bald in my thirties. I experienced trauma in my early fifties that aged me.

My mother is 22 years older than I. She is healthier than I. We traveled on cruises and group tours in the 5-6 years before the pandemic. Every time, people assumed I was her husband. There's only so long I can consider that a reflection of her appearance.

I am not concerned about anyone making use of information I publish on the Internet. When I identified as gay at 16 in 1977, it never occurred to me to hide that fact. I also didn't go around telling people. Breeders don't go around telling people they are straight. Normalizing sexual orientation means treating everyone the same regardless of any clues that indicate someone is different. It also means getting rid of phrases like "coming out" and "straight acting."

Many people fixate on their privacy. I have never understood that. I want people to know about me. I am not ashamed of who or what I am. Sometimes I'm not happy about having certain characteristics or conditions. I accept them or, in the case of character defects, work on them.

All that said, here is who I am:

I am a gay, physically and mentally disabled, well-traveled, married, well-educated, former born again, Daoist, recovering, neo-retro-post-modern male of mongrel European descent transitioning from middle age to seniority who enjoys gardening, cooking, reading world history, and living with cats.

I am a writer in large part because I enjoy using the English language with its breadth, depth, and nuance. That and I was rendered unemployable in 2013 at the age of 52. I write stage plays and musicals, science fiction novels, short fiction, poems, essays, blogs, screenplays, television pilots, and a book on democracy meant to be the start of a group of books of political philosophy. Prior to becoming a writer, I was a political scientist, lawyer, and student success educator.

I am adamant about not using color to identify people’s ancestry. The colors used are inaccurate, were put in use by racists to create the idea of race and are used to identify only two or three ancestries. I prefer identifying people as being of European, African, Chinese, Indian, Indigenous, Arab, et cetera descent.

I am on a crusade to convince everyone that people who do not believe or are unsure if Joe Biden is the legitimate POTUS, people who believe that the 2020 election was rampant with fraud, and people who believe election rules must be changed to address fraud must be identified as delusional. The evidence and conclusions in sixty court cases, every state’s secretary of state, every ballot recount, the US Congress, the US Department of Justice, and every legitimate news organization demonstrate without question that Biden is the lawful POTUS, the election was the most secure election ever held in history, and the only changes needed to election rules is to make permanent the temporary ballot access procedures implemented because of concerns people wouldn’t vote during the pandemic. The people holding delusional beliefs are a growing danger to the representative democracy at the core of our political system.