Here’s info about the book and the book reading Amie Klempnauer Miller and I were talking about during the Fresh Fruit interview with Leigh Combs, Thursday evening, July 13th.
Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All
Amazon Bookstore event info
C’mon by and schmooze with us! This Tuesday, July 18, 6:30pm, at 4755 [...]

Color-your-own Babar family, courtesy L. de Brunhoff.
Okay, so what was I doing not knowing that the dear, beloved Babar stories open with (a) the shooting death of his mother, and roll onward inexorably toward (b) the poison mushroom-induced death of the King of the Elephants, and (c) the marriage of Babar to his cousin [...]

Not related in any way whatsoever to the general subject area of this venue, other than the fact that it’s a blog, and Sifry (as CEO of Technorati) is an astute observer of the blogosphere. (Technorati’s gotta be okay since they flash on their homepage, from time to time, Susie Bright’s favorite blogs.)
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A familiar scene: an aging, beloved family dog, finding her/his way with the newbie attention hog. Our old girlie, Maxie, has taken the displacement with enormous grace, god love her geriatric bones.

The telltale signs of an evening with the grammas*: (1) stickers; (2) stickers accurately placed by one of the grammas (and I think I know which one) on the appropriate states. Part of the geography tutorial? Or on the sly, post-tutorial, because it’s just too fun to resist?
*Grammas = biomom’s mum, & biomom’s [...]

This morning the Little Monkey looked up from her bagel and saw a bird out the window on the deck railing. I said, “Look, sweetie! Do you see the birdie?” To which she replied, “Cal-a-for-nya Tow-hee.” To which I toppled over backward off my chair.
Mind you the wee mite is still shy [...]