I have been away from the blog for a very long time. Christmas was awesome. My Uncle Rob(who also doubles as my Godfather) and Auntie Kate brought my new baby cousin (Dylan Thorworth) to Mobile to stay with us for the Holidays. I am a total sucker for this kid; I really will do anything for him. The cool thing is I'll be his "Gay Uncle Day" and that means buying him tons of presents and such :-D.
I got a very special Christmas present: airplane tickets to NYC so I could visit with my best friends in the world, Kevan and Brendan O'Neill. I got to LaGuardia on Friday afternoon (6 Jan). We went ice skating that night and I met one of their new dental school friends. We also visited Central Park, the Museum (i think they call it MOMA or the Met), Times Square, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, Ground Zero, Chinatown, and ate at a restaurant in Little Italy. We even saw Hairspray on Broadway! But the best part of the trip by far was seeing my old friends. It's really neat how you pick up right where you left off. I really want to visit them again, and my excuse will be we still have to see SoHo, Chelsea, and the Village.
Currently I'm writing a short-story and attempting to invent a beautiful language like the two "Elvish" languages J. R. R. Tolkien did. Recently I read an empowering sermon by Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson in the last issue of Dignity USA. It motivated me to go back to church. I went to Corpus Cristi on Sunday and realized how much I missed community prayer. Yeah the Body of Christ!