The Monday Before Surgery Mid-weekend, in one frightening shared epiphany, Ramona and I remembered our lack of legal status. “We don’t have a single piece of legal paper to document our” – I counted on my fingers – “twelve year relationship.” “Our mortgage?” Ramona suggested as a joke. But we both knew, in a medical [...]
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The Monday Before Surgery
Posted in The Monday Before Surgery, tagged cancer and humor, domestic partnership, gay relationships, marriage equality, same-sex marriage on December 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Prologue
Posted in Prologue, tagged cancer and comedy, cancer and humor, first time comic, life choices, ovarian cancer, same-sex marriage on July 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Prologue Clutching the mike is what new comics do. It gives the illusion of control. Not a bad thing to want, standing on a stage and performing stand-up comedy for the first time. After the opening joke explained away my bald head – “Never piss off your hair stylist” – the audience was in. I [...]
