Here’s a way to earn “cool points” with your pre-teens: Mention that scientists have named a newly discovered dinosaur Dracorex Hogwartsia, in honor of the dragons in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books. Dinosaurs and Harry Potter. What’s not to love?
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, a novel by Shyam Selvadurai, won the Lambda Literary Award last week in the Children’s/Young Adult Category. The book tells the story of fourteen-year-old Amrith, who lives with his godmother in Sri Lanka. A visit from a Canadian cousin causes him to explore both his sexuality and his feelings about
Here’s my latest rainy-day activity for a train-obsessed pre-schooler: Google Video, search: “locomotive”. You’ll find lots of short videos (many under three minutes) from around the world, showing all kinds of engines. Also works with fire trucks, horses, and pretty much anything else your child may be into. While there are good reasons to limit
Are children today exposed to too much media, too young? A group of experts convened by the National Institutes of Health discussed the matter today, and came to no firm conclusions. Most seemed to agree that content, limited quantity, and parental involvement were central in ensuring children get the most out of any TV or
The West Wing is no more. The show had declined since its Aaron-Sorkin-written prime, but the acting was still solid, even when the script was weak. (The final episode was particularly disappointing, consisting mainly of the characters taking meaningful glances around empty rooms.) Maybe I kept tuning in, though, because it gave me an hour-long
The “Sugartime” episode of kids’ show Postcards from Buster is now available on the compilation Postcards from Buster – Buster’s Outdoor Journeys. U. S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings triggered an outcry among LGBT families and allies last year when she denounced the episode, in which rabbit Buster visits a lesbian family’s maple-sugar farm. The
I’m not sure whether the 2006 Daytime Emmys last Friday delighted the lesbian or the mom parts of me more: Ellen DeGeneres won Best Talk Show and Best Talk Show Host for the second year in a row. The 38-year-old Sesame Street won for Preschool Children’s Series, a category it has won all twelve times
Lesbian vacations and music festivals, in addition to giving us the chance to relax and be ourselves, serve as crucial exchanges of lesbian culture. (I assume the same holds true for gay men’s events, too, though I can’t comment firsthand.) Gail Ann Dorsey is a recent discovery from the Olivia cruise I just took. Her
I’m back from a week floating around the Caribbean with 1800 or so other lesbians. Olivia Travel, as always, knows how to do vacations right. I’ll spare you the “what I did on my (almost-) summer vacation” essay, though, and instead use the cruise as a jumping-off point for some posts this week on community,
Yes, the honey-loving bear now joins the ranks of Hollywood immortals. Pooh made his movie debut in 1966 in the Disney short “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.” Not coincidentally, today also marked the DVD release of Disney’s “Pooh’s Grand Adventure – The Search for Christopher Robin.” Fans of the original A. A. Milne
