Archive for February, 2008

Still life

“I’m relaxing with a little piece of stale bread,” says she.
[Copped on the fly (and from the hip) using this time-tested photojournalistic technique.]

And we’re off!

Today the voting begins for the Best Lesbian Blog of the Year Award (after a thorough perusal of the finalists, you may vote here). I thought a right fine way to kick it off would be to provide my own (admittedly idiosyncratic, certainly under-informed) synopsis of the blogs on offer.
This lesbo bon mots depot, [...]

Sisterly love, Berkeley, CA.

Something blue

[Day four of Robin's Some/thing old, new, borrowed, blue funfest, in honor of Freedom to Marry week. Lots of folks have joined the party -- take a peek. Many thanks to Robin for a delightfully inventive idea.]
My grandfather’s bench. That’s what I’m going with, for something blue.
(I highly recommend your firing up [...]

You know, any ole lesbian blog that strikes your fancy. Not sayin’ this one, necessarily. I’m just posting a friendly reminder.
From the looks of things (not based on scientific count, by the way, but a casual perusal), two reallly well-written blogs look to be head-to-head with equally copious and feverishly dedicated [...]

[Happy Valentine's Day! Day three of Robin's Some/thing old, new, borrowed, blue funfest, in honor of Freedom to Marry week. More folks have joined the party -- take a peek.]
Oh, these people. They’re borrowed.
We’re not even borrowing them, really. They’re staying with us for a while. Leaning on us as [...]

Something new

Um, WALKING.
Day two of the Some/thing old-new-borrowed-blue blogular funfest corralled by Robin at The Other Mother. Here, check out who else is doing this, and see what they’re getting themselves up to.

Something old

The “something old” pictured above: my dad’s hands, on his third grandchild, my daughter, when she was something quite new.
Robin Reagler, who writes the blog The Other Mother, has a blogging party/carnival thing going on, in honor of Freedom to Marry Week, which is happening this week for the eleventh year. Reagler, who herself [...]



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