Now out: a trailer for Sundance film The Kids Are All Right, starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as lesbian moms whose kids decide to go in search of their sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo). My initial thoughts: Moore and Bening make a great couple, but just once I want to see lesbian moms on screen
April is National Poetry Month, for no reason I can discern except that this glorious weather seems a perfect inspiration for writing poems. The Academy of American Poets site has everything you’d ever want to know about the celebration, but I’m going to share a couple of additional resources because we’re almost all parents and/or
Children’s musicians Erin Lee and Marci bring us the next of their regular posts with thematic recommendations for kid-friendly music, plus activities to make the songs an interactive experience for the whole family. Look for Erin Lee and Marci here on the first Monday of each month, or visit their homepage, www.gottaplay.org. I’ve created links
Helen and I look at several Showtime hits and ask: “Who’s a better mother: Jackie Peyton, Tara Gregson, or Nancy Botwin?” We also share what President Obama wrote to our son about health care reform, and I discuss my own early experience writing to the White House. Mombian: She Got Me Pregnant, 03-25-2010 Uploaded by
Showtime’s Nurse Jackie has its Season Two premiere tonight at 10 p.m. ET. I’ll be watching. I loved the show last season, not only for Edie Falco as Jackie, but also because it’s one of the few shows that has done lesbian moms right—that is to say, with a storyline more original than “two lesbians
Watching the Oscars tonight? Here’s some filmmaking news that will have you seething: Florida lawmakers are considering an incentive package to attract film and entertainment jobs to the state. Productions with “nontraditional family values,” however, would be ineligible. State Rep. Stephen Precourt (R-Orlando), who introduced the bill, said that films depicting gay families should not
As regular readers will know, I’m a big fan of They Might Be Giants and their great new kids’ album Here Comes Science. They also did a fun song called “And Mom and Kid” for Rosie O’Donnell’s recent HBO special A Family Is a Family Is a Family. (While I had some criticisms of the
Happy birthday to Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, who was born on this date in 1904. As those of you with children in elementary school likely know, today is also Read Across America Day, an an annual reading motivation and awareness program run by the National Education Association (NEA). I feel obliged to point
Children’s musicians Erin Lee and Marci bring us the next of their regular posts with thematic recommendations for kid-friendly music, plus activities to make the songs an interactive experience for the whole family. Look for Erin Lee and Marci here on the first Monday of each month, or visit their homepage, www.gottaplay.org. I’ve created links
I was delighted to discover the new(-ish) blog GLBT Reading, home of the GLBT Challenge 2010. The goal of the site is to encourage people to read books about GLBT topics and/or by GLBT authors. To participate in the Challenge, simply read relevant books (or short stories, poems, or essays), post reviews on your blog,
