http://www.lesbiandad.net notes from the crossroads of mother and father Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:09:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm passing along a note that those of us who are members of Our Family Coalition, Northern California's LGBT Family organization, received on Saturday. It's huge news. We're painfully aware of the resistance to LGBT family- and gender- diversity in K-12 curricula elsewhere, even locally.  Alameda Unified School District is 10 ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/03/one-school-district-at-a-time/ Pops, holding his father's maddock, Santa Cruz, CA (archival: November 2009). http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/03/weekend-bonus-shot-03-14-10/ This is what greeted me when I returned from a morning away, with Grandma on grandson duty.  From every other angle it's an elaborate drape of blankets, towels, and sheets.  But through this one peep-hole, you can see the raison d'etre. That little computer mouse-shaped object at the end of the white ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/03/sleeping-booty/ His Mama's youth music theater company's Once Upon a Mattress might have closed this past Sunday, but not in the boychild's mind.  Every day brings a fresh opportunity to dress up and sing along to pretty much every part, from Princess Winifred the Woebegone to Prince Dauntless the Drab and ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/03/one-boy-medley-factory/ Pops, indicating the height of the trees when his dad planted them 70 years ago. In my recent, breezy, Twitter-length series of As to some Qs about lesbian fatherhood, I wrote: "My dad is one of the beacons of love in my life."  True story.  One of his most oft-repeated ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/03/family-tree/ 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 ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/03/well-b-low-me-down/ Kid's baseball card photo/talisman, Berkeley, CA. Had to wait 'til Monday, since over the weekend the spirits flagged too much. Kept looking at pictures of pictures of my nephew, who would have turned 15 on Saturday. Couldn't post a picture of anything other than him, but then couldn't really post about ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/03/weekend-bonus-shot-monday-edition-03-01-10/ My punkin lamb peeping the world through a pair of "100" glasses. The girlie's Kindergarten class celebrated their hundredth school day earlier this week. So, so long ago was her first. An excited, nervous, pre-K little girl ago. Who's in her place now? If only I could can catch hold of the ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/02/100-days-of-scholartude/ 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 ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/02/vote-lezzy-vote/ Partly in service to the students in the class I spoke to the other day whose online questions I didn't have time enough to answer in person, and partly in service to the random assortment of you readers who may have asked such questions at one point or another, if goaded ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/02/20-questions-about-lesbian-fatherhood/