By: Joey Uva Enoch I feel like I am beginning the third quarter of my life. I moved from Oklahoma to California exactly 25 years ago. I moved from the center of Los Angeles with the hustle and bustle of it all to the West Valley on my twenty-fifth anniversary in California, on the […]
By: Joey Uva Enoch We did it! We bought our first house! Trevor and I have been talking about buying a home together since our second anniversary. We’ve had various obstacles in our way (or, maybe we have allowed them to get in our way) of us buying a home together. It’s been a few years of […]
By: Joey Uva Enoch Well the “Rock” finally made it! If you live in California, you have been hearing about this 340-ton boulder for months. If you don’t live in California, or you haven’t heard about LACMA’s new art installation “Levitated Mass”, it’s a huge boulder that has traveled for eleven days, through various Southern […]
Interview with Joey Uva by The Next Family TNF: How has it been blogging for TNF? Blogging for The Next Family has been a wonderful and enlightening experience for me. It’s been almost two years since I started writing. I didn’t consider myself a writer. When I initially started, I thought I would focus solely […]
By: Joey Uva Enoch This past Sunday Trevor, Grace, and I had a great afternoon on the ocean. Our friends Nick and Micheal invited us for a lunch time boat ride just off the coast of Long Beach. We started off the day with a very cloudy and cold Sunday morning. Grace was extremely excited […]
Trevor and I recently became domestic partners. We have talked for a couple years about getting married and thought we’d wait until it was legal again in California for same sex couples to get married. We both still very much want to get married but don’t want to wait on California. We have […]
By: Joey Uva Grace just turned seven last week. It’s hard to believe how fast the years have gone. We’ve been through good times, challenges, great times, and hard times but none of that has been able to stop the hand of time. It has been said that every seven years begins a new […]
By: Joey Uva My “To Do List” for 2012 is packed full of things I want to accomplish. One of the things at the top of the list is to buy a house. If you would have asked me in my twenties or early thirties if I wanted to buy my own home, I would […]
By: Joey Uva Wow! Another year has passed and 2012 is just days away. Earlier this year I started making a vision board with those things I wanted to accomplish. Well, I started my vision board and that was it. I didn’t follow through on finishing it or my plans on accomplishing any of […]
By: Joey Uva It’s that season again, the holidays. It’s the time of year when we spend lots of time with family and friends. We exchange gifts, show our love for each other, and eat meals with a sense of joy and merriment. Last year I wrote a post about having a very lonely Christmas […]
