Archive for December, 2006
We really are family
27 Comments Published December 15th, 2006 in Baba familias, Go hetero ally go!, Two kinds o' people.Moms group takes a field trip.
All week I have been contemplating what I might put in my heart-rending concession speech, to be published promptly after the polls close on this Weblog Awards whirligig. Then I thought: why wait ’til the end of the night? Because what I was going to say would have [...]
Lear goes to lunch
1 Comment Published December 14th, 2006 in Go hetero ally go!, Pops, Two kinds o' people.At our family’s dining room-away-from-home.
There are two kinds of lovers of literature: those who savor every word and image, regarding characters like they were old friends and old enemies. Then there are the rank opportunists, shameless scavengers who traipse through Great Books with the sole intention of poaching a random line here and there [...]
The other night we went to the Tilden Park carousel. Every year they doll it up, along with: the building it’s in, the roof on top of the building, the lawn in front, and an enormous, hundred-foot conifer. Lights, lights, lights, everywhere. Santas, snowmen, snowwomen, elves, reindeer, candy canes, and more, illuminated [...]
Fifteen minutes of flame
1 Comment Published December 13th, 2006 in Go hetero ally go!, Mostly a picture.You, too, can “Warholize” your images right ‘chere. The knock-off above came from an image that looked something like this before the Warholizer got to it.
Because our household has enough frayed nerves to duck tape together, what with the pregnant one of us getting pregnanter and pregnanter by the hour (yes, it’s the eighth [...]
Third list of ten: Crisis/grief support
10 Comments Published December 13th, 2006 in Miscellaney, Seraphim/dakini, Ten lists of ten.Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part three in a ten-part series.
As regular readers of this assemblage of lesbo bon mots will recall, my parenthood is markedly influenced by loss. My inaugural post introduced this theme; I named one of my exceedingly obscure tags “Seraphim/dakini” to [...]
Second List of Ten: First words
3 Comments Published December 12th, 2006 in Miscellaney, Ten lists of ten.Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part two in a ten-part series.
You didn’t think that a doting parent could actually resist the magnetic pull of her child’s first words, did you? Which were uttered over the course of the first hundred posts of this digital paean [...]
In celebration of the 100th post
10 Comments Published December 11th, 2006 in Miscellaney, Ten lists of ten, Two kinds o' people.A hundred stones on a beach in Tasmania, placed and photographed by a blogger (far more imaginative and intrepid than me) to symbolize and celebrate a hundred blog entries (click the photo to link to them).
Warning! Warning! It’s a blog meme. Or at least I think it is. I’m still enough of a [...]
Who loves ya, baby.
Lesbian Dad is written by a parent who answers to the name "Baba" and works toward a world in which amor does indeed vincit omnia. 
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