Summer afternoon, westward downtown Chicago as viewed from the Sheraton. Fourth in a four-part series of images of this exact same scene at various times of day (here’s morning, sunset, & night).
Whilst I continue to marinate my lengthier observations about last weekend’s BlogHer conference in Chicago, here for posterity are my notes of the two keynote chats I Twittered, [...]

And I couldn’t agree more with it. (Statement’s after the photo below; first a little context.)
I just got this statement in the mail from Our Family Coalition, of which I am a very supportive and proud member.  In the note accompanying the statement, Judy Appel of Our Family also said:
We have also expressed our solidarity [...]

This note from the girlchild greeted me on the dining table when I walked in the door last night, just after sunset. I was gone four days and three nights, far far away.
“I LOVE YOO BABA AND I OLSO WIHC YOO WR HER.” Or, to the trained eye: “I love you Baba and I also [...]

You’ve been good to me.
Above, Saturday’s Chicago skyline, facing westward not long after the official BlogHer conference ended. Officially.  Unofficially, a good time continued to be had by all.  (A wee hint of room 3116 hovers in the reflection.)
Next year, BlogHer’s annual conference will be August 6-7, in New York.  By the end of our [...]

LGBTQ “Birds of a Feather” lunch table at the BlogHer convention, Chicago, IL.
BlogHer/Chicago 09 Dispatch #4. This looks worse than it really was. No, the LGBTQ table at BlogHer did not host just one lone, sad diner (me). It was a whole tableful of garrulous gals, chit-chattin’ and crackin’ each other up and whatnot. I’m [...]

[*Update: now with new & improved "live Tweets" of the Keynote mentioned below. For the Tw-illiterate, you need to go to the very bottom of the string of Tweets (Twats, Twits) and read upward. But it ends with a pair of my favorite Twits/Twats/Tweets ever.]
BlogHer/Chicago 09 Dispatch #3. I decided for both of these pictures, for [...]

BlogHer/Chicago 09 Dispatch #2. Yes, it’s the view from my room, on the 31st floor in the air, thankyouverymuch. I think about Joni Mitchell’s song “The Arrangement” every time I press the button in the elevator. (Thanks to the Know It All Brother-In-Law swinging me his frequent traveller points, without which I’m pretty sure I’d be [...]

Dispatch from BlogHer/Chicago 09 #1: Just a quick note to be filed in the “I don’t get out often enough” file: some tidbits from the SkyMall magazine. No tidbits yet regarding the conference because Evening 1 all I did was eat some wonderful free food, sip some wonderful free wine, hug many people excitedly, come [...]