Jerry Chasen's Blog

This was a year of major change for me—milestone birthday and new career. A skydive captured much of that change, since (like last year’s bungee jump) it is definitely not my customary kind of activity. It all got me thinking about dreams—those I have yet to pursue, the current climate, and our collective dreams. These thoughts seemed to Occupy my attention as the holidays approached.

It’s unusual for me to find someone stating my own perspective on something better than I can.  It’s even more rare when that statement is coming from someone I thought hadn’t even the awareness of that perspective, much less agreed with it. Nonetheless that’s where I find myself today.  Both in an op-ed piece in [...]

A meditation on the surprising occasion of my telling my then partner I wanted to be his “sweetheart”.

My nephew got married. Probably more traumatic for me than him–how could I have a nephew old enough to get married????

This is the balance of the commitment ceremony. There are an odd number of vows. In the service, Mark and I alternated reading sentences in the vows, starting over again when we’d gone thru it once. That way, we each said all of the vows.