[Sex workers] must love and care for each other so, because none of the “good”, “righteous”, “upstanding” members of “law-abiding” society will. – “On December Seventeenth ”
As the number of “independent” columns has decreased, these back issues have grown ever shorter, and that’s especially true of December. Once the holidays (St Nicholas Day , December Seventeenth , Yule , Christmas Eve , Christmas Day , Boxing Day , and New Year’s Eve ); the harlotography (“Lou Graham “); the guest columnist (Paul Maginn ); the fictional interlude (“Serpentine “); the Q&A columns (“The Missing Piece ” and “For Love “); and the Cliterati reprints (“Traffic in Nonsense ” and “A Year Later “) are counted, the only two essays left are “False Witness ” (on the fallibility of human memory) and “Unfolding ” (on upcoming changes to my blog’s format).