Wrong Side of Thirty

Most of the people I meet… okay, most of the guys I meet tend to have their own song in my head, at least at the beginning; a song that sums my feelings about them up to a tee.
To give some examples, Arwen had “Angel” by Madonna; Barry had “Here It Comes Again” by Tracey [...]

Boo’s sister died last week.
It is neither as shocking nor as surprising as it may seem; she was ill for a long time, landed in hospital many times, and this time she just didn’t recover. The only unexpected bit was that she has actually been on the road to recovery, and then all of a [...]

For the last… almost 9 months — since I met Boo — I kept on checking my gaydar messages periodically. So has he. We both met people there that we were not planning to be involved romantically or sexually with, but didn’t want to lose contact either. That was the official line.
In the last two [...]

Sometimes I think: I should quit my job. It makes no sense for me to continue working there, I am bored most of the time, my boss isn’t half as nice as he used to be, I could be doing something that actually develops my skills rather than half-utilises them. I could be working somewhere, [...]

On Saturday I did something that didn’t go well. Let’s not go into detail. But I failed Boo, and I was very sorry about that. I said I was sorry, and I brought him a gift, and apologised. He said he was disappointed and angry once, twice, three times. After the fourth time I lost [...]