Archive for February, 2009

En route to the Prop 8 debrief in San Francisco last night. A fingernail clipping moon hung directly over City Hall, and high above that, a little to the south, Venus.
A be-suited man paused with me, as I held the camera up to my eye. “I was just thinking the same thing,” [...]

Picasso had his “Blue Period,” my son has his… Lollipop Period.

No, really.  They’re lollipops.  He and his sister went with Mama to get  haircuts, and got lollipops afterward. His first lollipop.
He kept saying it over and over again: “Sissy n me got our haircut. She got a wed lollipop, n I got a [...]

I think he’s trying to tell me something.

Little Farm friends romp, Berkeley, CA.

I have been noticing that I haven’t written about the boy much of late. I now know, poor neglected second child that I am, what is afoot with all that. The older one, at least at these ages, simply interacts more thoroughly, is easier to speak with. And what with adults being [...]

Thank you one and all for bestowing up on this humble assemblage of Lesbo Bon Mots the honor of Best Lesbian Parenting/Wedding Blog 2008! Last year a bride’s maid, this year a bride! Last year a GROOMSMAN, this year a groom!
I must say that while I have great respect for the other finalist blogs, Irreverent [...]

When the esteemed Dr. Rachel Maddow, Ph.D. (that’s Pretty hot Dyke, for those unfamiliar with academic acronyms) blew onto the national TV scene as a commentator for MSNBC, tons of gals’ undies got all up in a wad.  And I mean that in a good way.
Coast to coast and up and down the internets, [...]

Rainy day funfest

Everyone could feel in their bones that the moment was approaching.   There was a buzz in the place, an undeniable magnetic force, pulling us all to the same room.  People were a-quiver.  A-dither.  A-twitter.  And at the appointed hour, it came, and it did not disappoint.
PARACHUTE TIME.
The lil’ monkey had just been queueing up [...]



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