Male Bonding
I don’t often write about my family’s daily happenings, but this incident was too funny not to relate.
Family Profiles
Ellen and Portia Planning a Family?
While I’m on a roll with the entertainment news, I’ll pass on the tidbit that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are discussing having a baby, according to an interview in W magazine: “The two are considering having children, and go back and forth on the matter. ‘Ellen would carry,’ de Rossi offers. Counters DeGeneres:
Sara Gilbert and Partner Expecting
Nothing like a little celebrity news now and then: Actor Sara Gilbert, best known for her role in the sitcom Roseanne, and her partner, television producer Allison Adler, are expecting their second child, AfterEllen reports. Gilbert is pregnant this time; Adler carried the couple’s first baby. Perhaps this will motivate the producers of ER, where
Mary Cheney Roundup
Everyone’s talking about Mary this week. Here are some of the more notable or amusing contributions: Pam of Pam’s House Blend is blunt: “With this development, Mary and her partner Heather Poe are going to make her father’s religious right friends go apesh*t again.” She then charts some of the rabid right’s first reactions.
Mary Cheney and Heather Poe Expecting a Baby
Mary Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, and her partner, Heather Poe, are expecting a baby. “A source close to the couple” says that Cheney is pregnant and expecting in the spring. Pam has already hit the heart of the matter at Pam’s House Blend, noting that Virginia, where the couple lives, will not
Marital Bliss, Part II
First, thanks to all of you who have sent me good wishes for my impending nuptials. I’m humbled by your kind thoughts. Our chosen Justice of the Peace e-mailed us some sample vows. She’s a lesbian herself, and understands that we’re celebrating our thirteen years together as much as our new marital status. The vows
Marital Bliss, Part I
My partner and I applied for a marriage license in Massachusetts Friday, though we weren’t sure we’d be able to do so. We explained to the very nice clerk in the Gloucester City Hall that we did not yet have a home in the state, but my partner will be starting work there on Monday.
Melissa and Tammy Have Twins
Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels have announced the birth of their twins, son Miller Steven and daughter Johnnie Rose. Tammy gave birth to them last Tuesday, and according to Melissa’s Web site, both she and the babies are in excellent health. The couple also issued the statement: “The creation of life brings about immeasurable
Gay Adoptive Couple Profiled in San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle has a great article on Gregory Stewart and Stillman White and their five adopted children. It’s a wonderful family portrait, showing the usual parenting issues the two face as well as the extras—being gay parents, adoptive parents, parents to at-risk children, and white parents to children of color. Bonus points to
Irrational Exshoeberance
We bought our son a new pair of sneakers over the weekend. He’s moved up a size, and this means we no longer shop on the baby/toddler wall of our local Stride-Rite. We’ve moved up to the big-boy wall. I’m inordinately proud. Silly, isn’t it? He’s done nothing more than grow. I’m going to be
