Musing – Page 8 – Clay Russell

An editorial appeared in a Tulsa newspaper several weeks ago and it caught my eye. The topic was same-sex marriage. Of course it…

I think that everyone watches movies, reads books and listens to songs and thinks at times, “I love that.” Likewise with looking at…

Couldn’t sleep. Sitting curbside at an all-night cafe in Downtown LA eating messy, mediocre chicken wings. An LAPD sergeant stands a few feet…

There’s something about cats. There’s something about them that causes many of us to ooh and aah, to want to touch them, to…

On October 10, 2008, the Governor of California married Calvin Phelps and me. That transaction was legal back then, though within several weeks…

After my suicide attempt last October I made a choice, and that was not to keep it a secret. Only one person –…

I’ve told people often in the past two weeks that I’m glad to be home, that I was ready to come home. Home…

I went for a walk yesterday. It was raining a little and the sky was grey and low. A snail was making its…

The first time I traveled overseas was the summer of 1973. I was eleven, and my grandmother took my mother and me to…

It’s always been the most interesting to me to live in places where there are seasons. I like the change and I like…

Clay Russell