politics. sometimes with a capital P. but not always.
This is my friend Kate Kendell. This is her son Julian. For his thirteenth birthday, Kate brought Julian to Washington DC yesterday for the White House reception for gay leaders. Julian had wanted to be the first African American president. Now he has decided he wants to be the first African American president with lesbian [...]
I often go to ‘Google Hot Trends’ to see what people are talking about. It reminds me that either I am an alien being or that I am the only sane one. And it seems that the death roll continues. First Farrah Fawcet, then Michael Jackson. Then (in an oddly crushing blow to our fourteen [...]
My family is unusual in certain ways and quite traditional in others. Quite traditional in many ways in fact. This picture illustrates an unusual way. Not becuase we dress in costume. Not because we ask someone to photograph us like this. But because it wasn’t taken on Halloween. I get that this could be seen [...]
I know it seems odd. Ironic even. I was listening to the President’s speech to the veterans on Omaha Beach, commemorating the anniversary of D-Day and it hit me.. Funny. Here I was listening to him address military veterans and I realized what is missing in the President’s approach to gay civil rights.
On Sunday June [...]
I know you thought that my son Ben spends all his spare time playing Sims 3 which arrived last week. But he has made time to practice the marimbas. Ben is an awesome drummer but has learned marimbas as well and performed in a recital last night. It’s The Maple Leaf Rag [...]
Bring me your well clothed, your three dimensional, your Sims masses yearning to be manipulated. They should be here any minute. Ben has restless body syndrome just thinking about it. The Sims 3 fever is contagious and now it seems that I have caught it. So much so that I was up at the crack [...]