(c) David Rae Morris
In early September photojournalist (and friend) David Rae Morris posted a gallery of his images depicting the One Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Like all his work, it is perceptive, revealing, striking, intimate. Visit the Common Ground Collective site for a sense of the work still being done, or the [...]

Pops’ intake form at the orthopaedist’s.
Last week I took my Pops to the orthopaedist’s to figure out what’s the story with his 85-yr-old knee bones.
(Q: And this relates to lesbian fatherhood how? The flip answer: I’m a lesbian; he’s my father. So there. The real answer: What I learn from him has [...]

As seen on a bumper in Berkeley, CA.
Thanks today to Dana, at Mombian, for “Seasonal Thoughts on the Evolving Family.” In it, she (as did Liza at LesbianFamily.org a few days back) ruminates on a number of contemporary reports about evolving family structures, both as a result of LGBT families’ boundary-stretching, and because of [...]

(Or Mickey Rourke?) So it’s only olive oil up on there, to help with her cradle cap. But I think she wears the grunge coiff and the paparazzi-friendly attitude quite well.

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10. The opportunity to awaken, and to help others do so.
9. The reminder of the preciousness of my human birth, by so many gone, so close to me.
8. The opportunity to pass on my mother’s love.
7. My mother’s love, so powerful that it propels me still, a dozen years past her death.
6. [...]

Second bananna.
Also ran.
Lesser than.
Opening act.
Not-mama.
Chopped Liver.
Chopped Liver is what I have been so often since this whole parenting journey began that in our household, the words are shortened to a hand signal. The letters “C” and “L” shaped in the air by my thumb and forefinger. My woebegotten, self-pitying face in the background.
This [...]

Thirty-one weeks down, nine more to go.

A follow-up to the A.P.B. I put out last Friday, and I’m happy to report, sisters and brothers, that love and reason prevailed. At least this morning they did.
Regular readers of this humble weblog will remember that I passed along the following news: Dr. Nanette Gartrell, principle investigator of the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family [...]