I’m reporting to you live from the site of the Candy Land World Championships, where our resident Grandmaster is napping before he takes on his next challenger. My son finally gained the patience to play a board game a few weeks ago. My partner and I are avid (though not obsessive) gamers, and already our […]
Yesterday, I spoke of the LGBT heroes of 9/11, and the LGBT men and women who continue to serve in our armed forces. Coincidentally (or not), today sees the DVD release of Serving in Silence, the story of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, the highest- ranking U. S. officer to have been dismissed for her sexual orientation.
I went to our local warehouse store today and bought toilet paper, diapers, tampons, and cat litter. I spend entirely too much time taking care of my family’s nether regions.
The events of September 11 did not spare any group in the U.S., including the LGBT community. Among the openly LGBT heroes of September 11 were Mychal Judge, chaplain of the New York Fire Department and the first official casualty of the World Trade Center, and Mark Bingham, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 83,
I will always remember, as will many of us, where I was the morning of 9/11. A lucky change in job kept me away from Ground Zero at the time of the attack. For a year, I had been commuting on the PATH train to the World Trade Center, arriving around 8:45 a.m. every day.
Doing a little redecorating of the blog over the weekend. Things may look a little strange now and again for the next 24 hours. Please bear with me as I work out any remaining bugs. Thanks!
Today is Grandparents’ Day here in the U. S. One might have guessed that such a commemoration would be subsumed, by definition, under Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, or that the holiday was a pure contrivance by Hallmark. Not so. According to the National Grandparents’ Day Council: The impetus for a National Grandparents Day originated
My partner and I are sitting here on the sofa watching the women’s U. S. Open finals. Never missing an opportunity to multitask, we both have our laptops open on the coffee table in front of us. I’m catching up on newsfeeds and she’s logged in to the office, doing actual salaried work. The baby
Posting late today. “Nap” has become a four-letter word around our house, and it’s hard to blog with a three-year-old running around wanting to play forest ranger. Karl Rove’s stepdad, with whom he had a “close relationship” is gay, a new book claims. Yes, that Karl Rove, who used same-sex marriage to mobilize the conservative
I was reading an article on Martina Navratilova’s final appearance at the U. S. Open, and discovered that the credit card she started, the Rainbow Card, launched in Canada a few weeks ago. I thought this might be of interest to my Canadian readers. A portion of each purchase with the card goes to Martina’s
