First, get out your hankies, if you’re the weepy type.
Second, watch for a quickie cameo by our former babysitter (hint: she’s testifier #3!). Yeah, we’re lucky. 
Now if THIS was the post you decided to pass on to a friend, or co-worker, or whomever you haven’t already innundated with links or notices, then I will [...]

My beloved is endearingly superstitious, a trait she inherited directly from her mother. Could be a theater thing.   She spills some salt, she has to toss some over her left shoulder.  We’re walking side-by-side and find we’re split up to pass by a pole or some such, and she’s compelled to say, “Bread and [...]

This is my dad.  
He is a life-long optimist.  The older he gets, the more simply and purely he values love over all else.  
He was legally married to my mom for upwards of thirty-three years. They’d still be married now, if she were alive. Hell, they still are.
He dearly wants California voters [...]

[The American Library Association's Banned Books week  will be celebrated from September 27 to October 4.  This year, I think we should break out the sparkling apple cider early.]
You know times are tough when, at your daughter’s fourth birthday party, you and three other parents find yourselves in the middle of the lawn, ignoring the flying [...]

I went to a talk at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center last night, sponsored by Our Family Coalition, our amazing local LGBT family organization.  Family Law and Estate attorneys Deborah Wald and Deb Kinney spent an hour and forty minutes helping explain the mysterious inner workings of the law, as it functions for those [...]

Apropos of nothing in particular about lesbian parenting, and everything in general about the world I hope my kids will grow up into, Michelle Obama’s speech from Monday:

Michelle Obama’s Speech at the Democratic National Convention

and this herstoric speech, from the Contender, last night:

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Speech at the Democratic National Convention

both courtesy The New York [...]

Acclaimed playwright Terry Baum has revived her one-woman play, Immediate Family, and will be performing it through this fall as a fundraiser for the No on Proposition 8 (the CA marriage ban) campaign. She’ll be performing it this Sunday, August 24 at 2pm, at her San Francisco home. Find out where by sending [...]

The exceedingly smart Aussie feminists have been answering the above question  and others online since October of last year, thanks to the woman who writes at Blue Milk (tag line: thinking + motherhood = feminist).   She’s been collecting the answers here, and she’s got a page of germane statements on the topic of feminist motherhood by various bright lights at her [...]