(There are topics I wanna get to, and I will, in the coming days, but for now I’m going to indulge myself.)
What a difference a day makes. 24 hours ago, I was sitting there sullenly at my desk, kind of loathing my existence. Today, I’ve got a paid day off, and tomorrow I return to [...]

All right, well, I’m kinda AWOL these days. Part sickness, part sick of it. Just needing a bit of a slow-down with things in all areas of my life.
I had a reader question a week or so ago. Pretty short and sweet:
I was wondering what your take is on couples who have a peaceful, mutual [...]

Ah, I’m too tired to write again. Damned sickness. Soon.
In the meanwhile, this is one of my older posts and one I think missed a lot of people’s radars since it was right at Christmastime last year. I think it’s a good one to repost, and hope you agree.
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Still not convinced that better [...]

In case there are freaks out there with homing signals and metal detectors who’ve already found this secret-secret site o’ mine: Keep yer bloody shirt on.
It’s coming. Really. Soon, this will be an actual functioning blog. Unthinkable, I know, but true. Really.
Visit SmutandSteff.com to read the three years of archives. I need site traffic if [...]

What up, my good people.
I’m just having a few days to myself and taking the pressure off of myself regarding posting. I said things might slow down around here for a bit and that looks to be happening. Mostly, I don’t want to bother posting unless I have something I really want to say, as [...]

I don’t generally like to admit my ignorance in matters. After all, your ignorance of my ignorance is my bliss. But allow me to fess up.
A reader wrote me today to ask my thoughts on Ann Richards. Well, the name rang a bell but I couldn’t remember who she was. George W.’s predecessor as governor [...]

I may get around to writing late tonight, but that’s not as likely as I’d sort of like it to be. I think I’m sorta taking a mental week off, in a way, in an attempt to recharge. There IS something I have to weigh in on, a story notion fed to me earlier in [...]

Taken from my parents’ 1969 (the summer of love, don’tcha know?) edition of Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex*
With this on the shelves, in the living room, for my entire childhood, is it any wonder this didn’t have some sort of impact on me, as if by osmosis or something? Yeesh.
Should children be [...]

It’s almost autumn. This is beginning to please me. I want to go hiking in fall colours and do some photography.
This summer plum tuckered me out. I never really did get to enjoy it, so I say bring on the fall. I’m suddenly getting two-day weekends, and they seem so much longer than they used [...]

I work a couple blocks away from one of the nastiest parts of my beloved city, Vancouver, Canada. It’s like a whole other world when you stumble into the Downtown Eastside, just two blocks east of my office, a place that held, in the early ’90s, the highest urban rate of AIDS and HIV infection [...]

My deadline on my podcast delivery is a week a way and I’ve got talker’s block. As my readers, can you give me opinions on which of my writings here (or on the other blog even) you most want to hear me talk about and expand? Please, none of the sex-tip/how-to’s. I’m not comfortable going [...]