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Bitchslapping the Notion of Reality

Hanukkah was a very secular event at our household this year. I was sad and busy and didn't want to cook (puts bad energy in the food) but Rocco got flowers and a nice cake, supposedly adopted from a cake that looks like a Yule log, but the icing wasn't white and blue. The rest of the season promises to be more of the same. Rocco's working lots otherwise; in fact, he's on call Christmas. But maybe we'll have some folks over New Year's Eve for a potluck  for cocktails. Any LJers in SECT who wanna join us are welcome.

I'm proofreading another Shambhala Publications project, a fairly esoteric Buddhist text entitled The Great Medicine That Conquers Clinging to the Notion of Reality. The synchronicity of the arrival of this job is just stunning: nothing like suddenly losing a former boyfriend to just smack the stuff and nonsense outta reality. But this Buddhist text is a great antidote!

Published by Ron Suresha

Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality. For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party. Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor). His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.