You’re ever so welcome. I myself couldn’t be more tickled by the discovery that there is so much kinship floating about online — which online kinship, of course, represents family kinship all over the place. It’s an enormous relief that we aren’t the only lesbian family on the block here in Berkeley, and that sightings of folks such as us are a are familiar, if slightly exotic experience in our neck of the woods (ornithologically speaking, I’d say we’re like goldfinches, say, as vs. sparrows: eye-catching, perhaps, and not dime-a-dozen, but certainly not like cedar waxings, which alight in a gorgeous flutter for just a few days or a week, while en route from one distant part to another).

But I’m also delighted to report, definitively, that We Are Everywhere! In the U.S., for instance, we’re officially in Every Populated County of the Nation. And by we, I mean queer people with kids. There’s gobs of us, cleaning up after our kids (with one hand or two), from coast to coast.

And now, in honor of the joyousness of the occasion, I can’t help but paste in a link to the “Media” section of Wikipedia’s entry on Bach’s “Wachet auf (ruft uns die Stimme,” aka Sleepers Wake! Click ‘n enjoy!

A few months ago I hadn’t read any blogs at all. IT was mainly a convenience, a dumbing down of language, a tool that made work more efficicent. None of this cunning linguistic playfulness. Never did I suspect that it would bring so many new things: new ideas; new insights; new language; new voice; almost a new coming out (such a delight without adolescent angst).

We cant all live in Berkeley…..but I cant believe I havent ’spoken’ to other lesbian families before. It was a joy to realise there was a-nother family let alone a whole gayby boom with all its associated trappings! Some wake up call for this sleeper from the 80s.

*The sound of one hand doing housework.*