politics. sometimes with a capital P. but not always.
Pun intended. The next chapter in our inexorable march to equality involves the most unlikely of characters. Ted Olson. No, that is not a typo. I don’t mean Jimmy Olson (cub reporter for Daily Planet), Mary Kate and Ashley Olson (not sure what to even write here to describe them…) Allow me to explain. Ted [...]
So where does the gay community stand with regard to its fight for marriage equality in light of the Proposition 8 decision in California. Some states allow us to get married. Just today we learned that some of us were allowed to get married in one state but now the rest of us can’t. None [...]
When my partner Eileen was pregnant with our first child, we obsessed about names. But like a good Jew, Eileen obsessed in a very focused way. It had to be a name that started with an S after Eileen’s Aunt Sarah. Eileen never met Sarah. She died in the camps. Along with every member of [...]
Ben and Kit have begun to balk at the idea of my posting current photos of them on my blog without their permission. While I grapple with the validity of their concern, I have chosen to use older photos and embarrass them that way. Ben and Kit, 14 year olds extraordinaire, are in Costa Rica [...]
Scout says I will use any excuse to share this photograph taken at my First Holy Communion. It’s true. I find it fascinating. I wonder what I was thinking. I’m guessing I was figuring if I sat real still and was very well behaved, I would be allowed to change into jeans and a flannel [...]
I think Malcolm Gladwell is a genius. After I read The Tipping Point, I just decided to call him up on the phone. I felt there were so many lessons for the gay rights movement to learn from the basic premise of this book. In fact, you now hear folks talking about the Iowa decision [...]
It’s Mother’s Day and I’m up early. My kids are in their teens and so we didn’t have a 6am wakeup call with burnt toast and watered down instant coffee ready for us at 7am. The rest of my family is asleep. Just me and my dopey cat that believes the screened in porch is [...]