Paul Cram

12/13/2025

🎄📚This month we read "Christmas: A Candid History" by Bruce David Forbes and learned a few delightful curveballs:
✨ Christians didn’t celebrate Christmas for three centuries
✨ Puritans once made Christmas illegal (imagine banning tinsel)
✨ St. Nicholas shows up as… an elf?!

Overall take: a thoughtful, level-headed look at Christmas history from a Christian author who isn’t afraid to say, “Let’s all calm down.” No “war on Christmas” here—just a reminder that December has always been about winter, community, and a little joy… and maybe Christians can claim the 12 days after if they want to get specific. 😉

A bit dry in spots, but sprinkled with genuinely fascinating (and occasionally what-did-the-church-do-with-the-bones?!) moments.

Festive? Yes. Educational? Absolutely.
Overthinking Christmas just enough? Also yes. 🎁😄

12/05/2025

I’m gearing up for the Red Undie Run, and I’d love your help in supporting the Aliveness Project’s mission to end HIV in Minnesota. If you’re able, please consider making a donation through my page — every bit truly makes a difference.

A fundraising page benefiting The Aliveness Project

11/29/2025

Qu**rs, oddballs, and beautifully unfiltered humans — this Christmas Day hangout is for us. 🥸🤡🤠

Come enjoy an afternoon wrapped in chosen-family warmth this December 25th.

Jump into one, two, or all three parts of the day.

Expect good conversation, good food, and plenty of laughter.

Most of all, there’s room for you here… and the kind of love that doesn’t come with conditions.

11/29/2025

I am proud as hell of the people I get to call my chosen family—the ones who show up fully, who celebrate each other, and who help me feel at home in this world.

May we all keep building tables like this, wherever we can.

11/27/2025

Quick Tip on Staying Centered in Holiday Chaos | 🍬 Soul Snack

11/26/2025

Quick Tip on Staying Centered in Holiday Chaos | 🍬 Soul Snack
New podcast episode! A lesson I learned from playing dodgeball with an incredible sapphic team.

11/24/2025

Reminder: 
Want a place to celebrate Thanksgiving with Friends?!
Join us for our 3rd annual Chosen Family Feast. 🧡 If you want to join us, DM me

11/14/2025

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
Just dropped my new 24-minute narration of “That Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce — a sharp, sinister classic with a hint of queer-coded tension winding through the dark. If you like stories that feel like they’re watching you, this one’s hungry. 👁️🌒📖

11/14/2025

Just dropped my new narration of “That Damned Thing” by Ambrose Bierce — a sharp, sinister little classic with a dash of queer-coded tension woven through the shadows. 26 minutes. If you like stories that stare back at you… this one’s waiting. 👁️🌒📖

11/13/2025

Where’s the dating app for middle-aged gay librarians? Asking for a friend… and by “friend,” I mean me, holding a library card and questionable intentions. 😇📘💋 I am actively looking for a middle-aged gay librarian who can whisper “quiet, please” in all the right ways. 😌📚❤️‍🔥

11/12/2025

It’s interesting… how stepping into humor, warmth, and much-needed boundaries shifts who remains in my life 😌✨
Some disappear, and that’s fine — goodbye, homophobic church people! 🚫⛪
Though some of the ones who disappear… goodbye to some of my older siblings. Sad.
Amazing how standing up for yourself word for you. 👀
Life’s getting better 🌈💪. Because I’m making it better.