I wish I were more moved and less fatigued. Moving so sucks, and I would rather be pulling out bath tile grout with a toothpick than moving. But it really also is exciting to be making a new life with Rocco. The spatial-reasoning whizkid inside of me really loves the challenge of figuring out how it will all fit together. There's also a certain self-inquiry I indulge while pulling together my household and taking it on the road. I love planning the arrangement of my furnishings, most of which is nothing special but lots of which has sentimental value. In fact, having to deal with all my stuff is a great way of assessing life up to now: I can look at a side table (for example) and remember my humble roots, when that furniture, a futon, and a small desk were almost all that I had in the room I let when I came to Boston 12 years ago. Well, maybe a few more things than that, but you get the idea. And I love driving a big truck.
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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.
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