Many are familiar with the Syracuse Cultural Workers’ poster “How to Build Community.” [Scroll down a bit to see it; you can click a link to see it enlarged.] I’ve long harbored a scheme to get a bunch of their laminated posters and guerrilla-post them around my neighborhood. I’m just saving up for a [...]

Special Uncle facilitates a fresh perspective.
One wonders whether the frequent realignment of the kiddle point of view, literally, has an impact on their capacity to conceptualize a broad range of possibilities? That, and the tablula rasa brain. Buddhists call it “beginner’s mind,” and revere it. In her lecture on beginner’s mind, Abbess [...]

Yes, someone–a former hacker & current nightclub owner–did indeed bronze a turkey baster as a gift to lesbian friends who’d just had a baby. Caption: “A Miracle of Modern Science!”
I have been able to co-parent with my partner as a result of donor insemination (DI), also called alternative insemination (AI). As a result, I [...]

The National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study t-shirt.
Not that any of us lesbian parents are surprised. But it’s nice to have a good, rigorous psychiataric study or two to cite, when heckled.
Sunday morning I went to my old friend’s Unitarian Universalist church to hear Dr. Nanette Gartrell talk about her ongoing longitudinal study of lesbian families [...]

Tape relocated from some fruit. It reads: Organically grown.
Several years back I was transfixed by a radio interview with Sandra Steingraber, who was talking about her book, Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood. There’s an informative review of the book here on Seventh Generation; you might know her from a previous work, [...]

A parental version of What’s On My iPod or some such thing like that. In descending order of importance, most to least:

• kiddie towel with the cute hood thingy that keeps ‘em cozy;
• pennywhistle (from the Emerald Isle itself, via the Mother Outlaw; I’m abysmal at it but practice makes perfect, and she hasn’t [...]

San Francisco literati on on the move at the LitCrawl, 10.14.06.
This past weekend, yrs truly had the honor of reading in public about my madcap journey to lesbian fatherhood. Litquake, San Francisco’s week-long literary festival, is dotted with readings, workshops, and performances celebrating writers and writing. Capping it off is LitCrawl, an inspired multi-venue [...]

Toward the end of a week at my sister’s cabin in the Sierras, we spent a bucolic afternoon at a nearby alpine lake. A trio of mallard hens swam up to us at the shore, and we fed them our entire bag of peanuts. Make Way for Ducklings has been a favorite of late, so [...]