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2011
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Fasten yer seatbelts!
“Site fixie currently underway, courtesy of LJ and Dresden, the crack team at Plaid House ...”
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Ol' school!
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Jul
Jun
30
Post-wedding party
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Wordless Thursday
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Tea time
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After school
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Cow poke
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Split vision
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For the record
“An actual content-based post, for a change! But a quick one (the only way they're ...”
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May
Apr
Mar
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Six years today
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Untitled
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Feb
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Now you see 'em
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Who loves ya, baby
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Battered out in Alabama
“I usually don't pass on news items here, mostly because my discretionary time for posting ...”
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I have no doubt
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Bewitched
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Jan
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¡Arriba, osos!
After Tucson, #2 in a series
“ This is a parenting blog, primarily. Parenting as seen through my eyes, which are those ...”
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Ninety
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Two readers
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Mornin'
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2010
Dec
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31 of 31
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30 of 31
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20 of 31
“You. Must. Watch. This. "Family Time," COLAGE's new documentary about its first twenty years, tells the ...”
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19 of 31
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15 of 31*
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14 of 31
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Baba is butch
“ Never simply late when I can be egregiously late, I am filing this mid-December response ...”
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Well THAT sure was creepy
“A brief non-photographic aside here to note that we all -- or those of us ...”
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4 of 31
“ "Christmas Lullaby," by Jason Robert Brown, eavesdropped after dinner last night. ”
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1 of 31
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Nov
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Dusk/dawn
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Save the Children, elect Richard Pan for CA Assembly
“I got an email yesterday from Chris Moore, President of the Stonewall Democratic Club of ...”
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Study hour
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We are all bystanders -- until we stand up
“I just left my sleeping son, whose only disappointment today was that he would not ...”
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Sep
15
B-day moments
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09
03
What's the story?
“Hey, you drought-tolerant LD readers! I have a question for you. I've been given the wonderful ...”
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Much ado
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Aug
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Le flâneur
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Indiana in New York
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Short takes on the big break in the long fight
“This is a victory for the American people; it's a victory for our justice system. That's ...”
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Let's hear it for New York
“ So I'm off for the city of dreams, the city that never sleeps, the city ...”
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Jul
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Night Fliers a-flyin'
“Night Fliers, the debut feature film by Bay Area screenwriter, producer, and director Sara St. ...”
One day my girl will be too big for a swing
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Doors of mystery
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Carousel ride
“And by carousel ride, I'm not referring lyrically to the online comment stream debates elsewhere ...”
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It's a Family Affair
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Cross yer bow!
“So said my Pops, when he leaned across one or another of us at the ...”
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Jun
May
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Open house
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Weekend bonus shot, 05.23.10
Happy Harvey Milk Day
“ Today's California's first observed Harvey Milk Day. Actions and celebrations are stockpiled here by EQCA and ...”
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Et tu, Glee?
“I know you do not come here for the latest in pop culture news and ...”
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In the eye of the beholder
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Food for thought
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View from the loo
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09
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Share/keep
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Dance party
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Apr
Mar
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Forward movement
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Road trippin'
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Weekend bonus shot, 03.28.10
“And now for something completely different. For this weekend bonus shot, not B&W, not even a ...”
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On top o' the world
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Five years
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Sleeping booty
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Family tree
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Well b-low me down
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Feb
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20 questions about lesbian fatherhood
“Partly in service to the students in the class I spoke to the other day ...”
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Love train
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A sign of the times
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Haiti
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For the fairy-curious
“For your edification, a few morsels of fairyanna. Where do I get my intel? My ...”
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Yin yang boy
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2009
Dec
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Wishing you well
“I'll be away from the internet through the coming weekend, or at least away from ...”
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3,472 in a series
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Mary go around
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My people
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Lucky man
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Conversational thread
“The girlie and I were reading The Moffats on the couch during her brother's nap ...”
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¡@#$%^&*(!
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The good fight
“ Philip Spooner's testimony on behalf of LGBT marriage equality before the Maine legislature has become ...”
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Oct
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Untitled
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BPWP #3
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BPWP #2
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Loved boy
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Weekend bonus shot, 04.09.09
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Gracias, Mercedes
“ Mercedes Sosa, Argentine Folk Singer, Is Dead at 74 What a voice, what a heart, what ...”
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My boy
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Birthday kitty
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Some kid's lit questions for the hive mind
“In which I ask you all for your collective insights, which I know to be ...”
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Royal dance
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Day one: done
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Solo walk
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Aug
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A welcome sign
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Flights of fancy
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Goin' to Chicago
“ Sorry that I couldn't find the Ernestine Anderson version of this, which is my favorite. ...”
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Balm for the soul
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15 (yrs together)
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Lil' help
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Berry by berry
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SF Pride Slideshow
“   I have  not been able to square away the time to do a proper narrative ...”
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Jun
30
Papadaddy
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Fairy wings
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Block party!
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Pushmepullyou
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Wee dialog with the boychild
“Scene: the rocking chair in the kids' room. I've got my not quite two-and-a-half year-old ...”
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The worst are full of passionate intensity
“THE SECOND COMING     Turning and turning in the widening gyre      The falcon cannot ...”
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Date night vignette
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Witless Wednesday
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Bee girl at rest
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Meet in the Middle 4 Equality Rally Video
“ Those of us who were unable to be in Fresno this weekend, by dint of ...”
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May
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21st of 21
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19th of 21
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18th of 21
“ A slide show of images from this morning: first in front of the California Supreme ...”
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17th of 21
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16th of 21
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15th of 21
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13th of 21
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12th of 21
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11th of 21
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East Bay schools in right wing crosshairs
“Now that the big right wing guns have been brought in and the news has ...”
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Weekend bonus shot, 05.17.09
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10th of 21
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8th of 21
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5th of 21
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4th of 21
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1st of 21
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"Follow me, Baba!"
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Marriage Equality and Religion: The MA Experience
“ Posted to YouTube yesterday by Empire State Pride Agenda, with the following description: One of the ...”
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Masculinity in crisis
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Thanks again, gentle readers
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Interlude: language and discipline
“Girl child: Baba, just poked me with his finger. Baba: Well, punkin, what might you ...”
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Camera girl
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Post up at BlogHer, LD up in the hills
“ This is a brief editorial note informing you of the existence elsewhere of a post ...”
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Hail to Vermont!
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A Night Out
“Last week, our friendly neighborhood queer family org, Our Family Coalition, held a Night Out, ...”
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Mar
31
The political is personal
“Buckling to the popular demand of two (count 'em: 2!) readers, I'm posting the notes ...”
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Inside the aquarium
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Four years
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Myth-busting study released
“The COLAGE News Blog passes on the news that the Williams Institute at UCLA's School of Law ...”
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Easy come, easy go
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Lucka dee Irish
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We get what we get
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In the eye of the beholder
“So, I was driving the kids to a morning's fun.  We were to meet up ...”
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Heiroglyphics alert, part deux
“With the update to WordPress 2.7.1 (the blogging template I use for this blog), we ...”
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Weekend bonus shot, 03.08.09
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Pardon the mess
“We're upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1., which means it'll look a little different here in the ...”
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What's at Stake (tomorrow)
“ "Produced by volunteer activists, this video tells our stories so Californians will know what's at ...”
Feeds self yogurt, effortlessly
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LD is three
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Twilight, continued
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Feb
Jan
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Music puzzler
“Okay, I could have foisted this trio of cameraphone videos on a pianist friend and ...”
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Desperately seeking Aclaudia
“Our girlchild burst in the door last week in as close to a dither as ...”
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Peapod vision
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Yet another nifty thing off the internet
“Erm. Cool visual used to be here (okay, from Jan 23 'til late Jan ...”
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Seen and heard on date night
“This was last week.  We'd just finished eating a fine meal at our favorite neighborhood ...”
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Inaugural alpenglow
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Go 'Bama!
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As a wee public service
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Dear Mr. Warren
“It was from Pam Spaulding that I learned of this open letter to Rev. Rick ...”
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Stumping for some friends
“So I've been in not so fine fettle lately.  I could go on about my ...”
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Why no one will ever hear me saying, "Gay is the new Black"
“Oscar Grant III. Google his name, if you need to, and then get back to me. Another ...”
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Screening
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Holding pattern
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New Year's portrait
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2008
“So far so good!”
Dec
31
Whoosh!
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Pas de deux
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Et tu, Barry?
“First off,  I really wanted to get back to sweet little stories of human connection and ...”
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Favorite things
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Wee missive
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A chat with Ben
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Grampy's in town
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Nov
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Lojong teaching #13
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The tenacity of hope
“ What the man said, in 1978, not long before his assasination : Without hope, not only ...”
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Ca-runch
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Flash! Anti-gay marriage campaigns cause psychological distress to gay people!
“The irony in the post title here is in no way meant to undermine the ...”
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Breaking: Court will hear challenges to Prop 8*
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Kate Kendall: Five Stages of Grief in 14 Days
“Those of us on the NCLR (National Center for Lesbian Rights) mailing list got a ...”
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When in the mud...
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Mr. Sunshine
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"A great night out in New York City"
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Honor roll
“Social change takes work on multiple fronts, usually simultaneously. Popular, electoral, cultural, intellectual, emotional, ...”
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Election day
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Empty
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Article of faith
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Oct
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No, no. Make that, UN-holy crap
“O, here we go.  Buckle the seatbelts:   Yep.  You heard right.  An official campaign spokesman at ...”
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Holy cr@p!*
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Urgent appeal from No on 8*
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Listen, better angel
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For the It *Will* Get Uglier Before This Is Over file
“And ample illustration of why I (along with any other sane person in this state) ...”
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Californians! Today's the deadline to register to vote!
“From the Voter Registration page from the California Secretary of State: How You Can Register to ...”
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Thank you
“The observant among you will have noticed that today I upped the goal on the ...”
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Good news, bad news
“Good news: An article from the San Jose Mercury News today, highlighted on Daily Kos: ...”
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Interlude
“Baba : I get the feeling you're not reallly listening to me. Pause. Lil' monkey: What did ...”
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Good news from Connecticut*
“New York Times: "Connecticut Ruling Overturns Ban on Same-Sex Marriage": In his majority opinion, Justice Richard ...”
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The sagacity of hope
“My beloved is endearingly superstitious, a trait she inherited directly from her mother. Could be ...”
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An early welcome to Banned Books Week
“ You know times are tough when, at your daughter's fourth birthday party, you and three ...”
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Eight weeks out
“My other day job (besides running around after the kiddles) will be heating up over ...”
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But I've been talking too much. What do YOU think about me?
“Actually the beloved's family, mostly all theater folk, deliver that old saw this way:  "But I've ...”
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It's all Fiddler all the time around these parts
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O I just couldn't resist
“Thanks to Pam, who says Jon Stewart nails it again - the bogus GOP gender ...”
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And by point of contrast
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Family brackets
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Aug
30
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Living history*
“ We all sat around the room at my sister's house, postponing dinner for nearly an ...”
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Rest in peace, Del Martin*
Computer screen worth watching
“Apropos of nothing in particular about lesbian parenting, and everything in general about the world ...”
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A tale about a tale
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Immediate Family
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We interrupt this parenting blog to crow about a well-placed lesbian television and radio commentator
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Q/A
“This evening the lil' monkey took umbrage at being interrupted to come to dinner.  She ...”
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A well-rounded musical education
“While the sun will never completely set on Into the Woods -- Sondheim's in our ...”
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Punky of the sands
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Lil' Red
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And now we are four
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Smudge Wednesday
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How would you describe your feminism in one sentence?
“The exceedingly smart Aussie feminists have been answering the above question  and others online since ...”
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Bag half full
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Listening
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Off they go
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Licensed to thrill
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The hitchin' post
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Herstoric
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All aboard!
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The trouble with Mother's Day (or, Why I'm glad to be a Lesbian Dad)
“I want to begin here by relaying two different scenes, each of which illustrates, in ...”
7 comments
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"I'm gonna need some help."
“Lil' monkey: I'm gonna need some help with one -- no, two -- no, three ...”
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Readin' fool
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A lesfam primer
“In Child of the Week, my Blogging for LGBT Families post the other day, I ...”
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Child of the Week
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(Tap tap tap tap) Is this thing on?
“Er. Ahem. Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my blogular life. ...”
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17th of 20
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16th of 20
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15th of 20
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13th of 20
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11th of 20
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9th of 20
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8th of 20
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7th of 20
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Other people's Mother's Day posts we like
“Since I'm not doing one this year (alas), I'm acting as directional signpost. I'm ...”
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5th of 20
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4th of 20
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May Day May Day!
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Help is on the way
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A Dottie tribute
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Gremlins are eating my website
“If you can even read this, please pardon the mess. That is of course ...”
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U-caption it (3)
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Palimpsest
“I love them like I know the loss of a child. My nephew and his cancer ...”
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Tee hee (2)
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Paw madly in area below
“Back when we had two dogs, and one of them was a manic, hypervigilant Australian ...”
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Monday eye candy
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About a boy
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Milk drunk
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Still life
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And we're off!
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Something blue
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Something new
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Something old
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Pillbox hat legends
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It's a parent
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Tee hee
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Sick boy
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Flash: Coontz on marriage at the NYT op-ed page
“Stephanie Coontz' op-ed piece today in The New York Times, "Taking Marriage Private," is very ...”
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Baba's lament
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Thanks giving
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Thinking Bloggery
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They're baaaaaaack
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Gracias a la vida
“In a nod to the last day of the Día de los Muertos, I post ...”
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Halloween scene
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Oct
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Hat eats bagel
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Nature: 1, Nurture: 1
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Squash goatee
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Happy National Coming Out Day
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Flash! Abby sez gay nuptials a-okay!
“Says so, right here: "I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God ...”
1 comments
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A little foreshadowing
“On deck: a ditty about the sailor mouth coming home to roost. In the ...”
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U-caption it
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Angle of repose
1 comments
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A.P.B.: ENDA trans discrimination on hold
“Much afoot about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA. I'm too slow-moving a craft ...”
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Searchstring Friday
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It's official!
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Love thy brother
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Lest we forget
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A.P.B.: Today show to cover NJ school district family diversity film ban
“This just in from Dana, our gal at the Mombian desk: Sources tell me the Today ...”
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In the old orchard
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Tapas Friday
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Three down...
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A little help?
“I was writing an epic-length response to a great question someone asked, and realized that ...”
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Idyll speculation
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31
News flash: That's apparently not a family in NJ
“Hot off the presses from Dana at Mombian: School Board Upholds Ban on Film Depicting ...”
Lose some, winsome
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APB: Sign the Gulf Coast Recovery Bill of 2007
“ From the makers of the video: Dear Friends, Tomorrow marks the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, ...”
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Overheard (1)
“Scene: Little Monkey is tucked into a room taking care of "business" in her diaper. ...”
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Scat Friday
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Beach sky
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How do I love thee?
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Makin' bacon
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Pride and prejudice
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A Baba's Day Proclamation
“ Whereas there have always been womanly men and manly women, and Baba's in the latter ...”
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Even bigger news flash: MA legislators vote to defeat same-sex marriage ban!
“I can't help myself. Big week of I can't help myself. I just ...”
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News flash: Katha Pollitt has a blog!
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Who's your dandy?
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Afterbath
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Same/difference
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May
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It's a Cheney!
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One for the "Life's Little Lesbian Dad Pleasures" file
“Setting: Curbside at SFO (San Francisco International Airport). Time of day: Early afternoon on ...”
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Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870
“Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water ...”
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After the dance
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Swing!
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Nunsense Friday
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Quid pro plugs
“Two blogular compatriots have been nominated and are currently slogging for votes in the Blogger's ...”
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Spit-up rag code
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Memory loss
6 comments
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Punky la barbe
7 comments
Mar
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Sandbox paradox
10 comments
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Blue Monday
3 comments
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From the vault
4 comments
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Vat am I to do?
11 comments
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Rest in peace
16 comments
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Who says irony is dead?
“While making the grim phone call to the vet researching whether and how they schedule ...”
4 comments
A self-help tutorial
2 comments
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Heart condition
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Quality assurance
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What the Berkeley Parents are chewing on this week
“The Berkeley Parents Network is a mammoth online community of fellow travellers, kvetchers, generous direction-givers, ...”
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LD is one today
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A.P.B.: Stand up to hate in New Jersey schools
“Dana at Mombian alerts us to an urgent battle in New Jersey, where the Evesham ...”
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water/baby
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Tilt!
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I am thankful
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Lesbo family love needed for call-in radio show Monday
“ALL POINTS BULLETIN! Dr. Nanette Gartrell, the principal investigator on the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, ...”
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Post-election addendum
“Not surprisingly, Berkeley and San Francisco vote to urge Bush's impeachment! San Francisco was ...”
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Vilkommen, bienvenue, welcome
“In less than a month, the wee bairn–she what has made a Baba out of ...”
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