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 […]
Discovery Health will feature lesbian moms Karen and Janice tomorrow (Tuesday) on Five Under 5 at 8:00 p.m. ET. The moms have a four-year-old daughter and twin sons, and are preparing to welcome another set of twins. I feel exhausted just thinking about it—but they seem to be quite the happy family. If you want
(Originally published in Bay Windows, October 16, 2008.) When Peg Tyre wrote an article titled “The Trouble with Boys” for Newsweek in 2006, outlining what she saw as a national trend of boys struggling at school, it caused a firestorm of controversy. Some feminists accused her of ignoring the age-old and still ongoing struggles of
Just for fun, as a break from all the politics: A sculptor friend of mine, Julia Levesque, has created an interactive art installation about identity. In it, she asks viewers to share the type of fork, knife, spoon, or other piece of silverware that best represents them. Her Web site explains: Our terminology for self-description
Obama won! So did five Mombian readers chosen at random from those who participated in yesterday’s L Word Box Set Giveaway. I encourage you all to read through the comments on the post to see the variety of funny and insightful ways people completed the sentence: “If I could summarize this election in three words,
Here’s the next of my The L Word Fifth Season box set giveaways, which I’m running in conjunction with Robin Reagler of The Other Mother. Congratulations to the first five winners. I’ll give away another five sets here today and Robin will wrap up with five more on Wednesday. Here’s how today’s contest will work:
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
Bette Porter for President! The smart and confident Ms. Porter is Mombian readers’ choice for the Oval Office, based on your comments to the L-ection question in my L Word giveaway post. The first five winners of the L Word Complete Fifth Season DVD Box set, however, show a range of opinions. They are: Ammo:
Let’s have some fun here in the midst of political season: Robin Reagler of The Other Mother and I have teamed up to give away 20 complete boxed sets of the fifth season of The L Word. I’ll give away five here today; she’ll do five on Monday; I’ll do five on Tuesday, and she’ll
Helen and I declare ourselves Two Mamas for Obama and talk about our son’s reaction to election time. We also review the film Breakfast with Scot, about two gay men who foster a flamboyant 11-year-old boy. The movie breaks new ground in its depiction of LGBT families, we say, if only because there are no
