I named this blog "Half Life" because I just turned 53 and have at most half a life left, and have also always felt an affinity for the idea of 'half life'—how long it takes for a quantity of atoms to decay to half the original value—as a child I was fascinated by the idea of diminishing in that manner rather than in the stark 'life, or 'death'; now, of course, I'm quite familiar with diminishment in all its forms and am trying to find it as beautiful as well as terrible.
All the news yesterday (March 18, 2008) from Obama's seminal race speech to the David Paterson, James McGreevy follies, on top of the now almost forgotten Eliot Spitzer mess make me think it's time for someone to give a lucid speech on why it's time for a national conversation about the need to perfect our sexual literacy: it's not 'cheating' if you're using your own body.
birthday photo
