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Much ado

A potpourri, here. No thread, just the will to stay up well past a sensible bedtime to say something, anything.
Have I shown you this image before? If not, I should have. It’s vintage, meaning my daughter drew it years ago, so long ago now that I don’t remember when. Yeah, I know, she’s five, bearing [...]

So I’m off for the city of dreams, the city that never sleeps, the city that apparently doesn’t serve Bloody Marys before noon on a Sunday morning. (Wha?)
[Incidentally, whilst I am at cruising altitude somewhere over the Great Plains, Judge Vaughn Walker's decision in the Prop 8 trial will be released. Here's a thumbnail sketch [...]

Cross yer bow!

So said my Pops, when he leaned across one or another of us at the dinner table, reaching for the butter dish.
I’ve been offline for perhaps as long as I’ve ever been with this thing since it launched (ten days, yow!), at least as long as I’ve gone in a slid off the map sort [...]

“Here” being actually “over there,” there being Courage Campaign. Image takes you to Courage Campaign’s page, their PDF link direct to you here.
The PDF download lists who’s for and against the various California propositions on the ballot, and includes a brief synopsis along with Courage Campaign’s recommendations. John in Sacramento, at Firedog Lake, has a [...]

Just cross-posted an LD post from a few weeks back,”20 Questions About Lesbian Fatherhood,” at BlogHer, the venerable über-site for women online.
Go read it there, if you hadn’t here, or if you had here and never got around to making that comment you wanted to, comment there! The really interesting thing is that the reading [...]

Or should I say, “Blog update in 20 obscure, often blurry cookie fortunes”?

Well b-low me down

Daggone! Enough of y’all meandered over to the Bloggies website to vote this thing in as best glbt weblog!
I would like also to thank whichever mysterious nominator(s) tossed my well-worn baseball cap into the ring in the first place, and whichever Bloggie finalist-winnowing committee people plucked this blog out of the pile and brought [...]

Vote, Lezzy, vote

This year’s Lezzys are on: over two dozen lesbian-authored blogs, finalists for The Lesbian Lifestyle’s “Best” blog for 2009 in Entertainment/Culture, Humor, Parenting, Engagement/Wedding, Feminist/Political, Personal, “Out later in life,” Sex/Short Story/Erotica, NEW Lesbian Blog, Podcast, and Lifetime Achievement. Yrs truly is up for “Best Parenting Blog.” Voters vote daily (with email link confirmation) [...]



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    Archived material about the 2008 California marriage equality fight and this site's treatment of it can be found at an LD No on 8 page. There you'll also find links to background info on the marriage equality issue & sources of info on current campaigns, like The Courage Campaign's Equality Hub. For ongoing news roundup on national marriage equality issues (updated daily), check out Stop8.org.







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    Lesbian Dad Lesbian Dad is written by a parent who answers to the name "Baba" and works toward a world in which amor does indeed vincit omnia.

    Still curious? You'll find a ton more on the About page. Or the Glossary. Or the Best of LD. The closest thing to an origin story can be found in this six-post series, excerpted from an essay of mine describing the dawn of my lesbian fatherhood.

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