Passing along some information about the upcoming Valuing Our Families 2007 Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Valuing Our Families 2007 Conference Award Celebration and Town Hall Meeting Saturday and Sunday, March 24-25, 2007 Saturday events at Sunshine Cathedral, Fort Lauderdale, FL Sunday events at Easterlin Park and First Congregational Church, Fort Lauderdale Conference for Families, […]
First lesbian swans, then gay penguins, now lesbian koalas. Researchers at the University of Queensland recently studied a group of 130 captive koalas and discovered the females attempting to mate with other females, sometimes with up to five others at a time. Good news in support of the view that same-sex attractions are as “natural”
My partner, parents, and I are sitting here howling with laughter as we listen to an online stream of the Capitol Steps New Year’s Eve 2006 concert, Politics Takes a Holiday. The Steps do brilliant political satire. They began as a group of U. S. Senate staffers, but have expanded to include professional musicians as
You’re a lesbian, a mom, and a blogger . . . and your children already have all the “I Love My Mommies” and “My Mommies Love Me” t-shirts you can handle. Spruce up their wardrobes with Mombian’s new “One of My Moms Is Blogging This” children’s wear. Our children’s T’s, sweatshirts, bibs, and infant creepers tell the world
Two days after L Word producer Ilene Chaiken announced the creation of OurChart.com, a new social network for lesbians, Olivia Cruises & Resorts announces “the all new online destination for lesbians . . . the new Olivia.com, where you’ll meet other lesbians online, make connections with friends, share stories, and network with other like-minded lesbian
Ilene Chaiken, executive producer of The L Word, will be launching a new social network “for lesbians and their friends” this January, in conjunction with the fourth season of the show. A sort of My Space for lesbians, OurChart.com will feature original as well as user-generated content, along with exclusive material from The L Word.
My three-year-old son couldn’t tear himself away from a miniature sandbox set he saw at a local toy store the other day. The set, called My Little Sandbox, is a box about ten inches square, filled with fine sand and a variety of themed toys. The one on display was a little farm, with animals,
Are partnered lesbians less subject to weight gain than straight women? Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine reported on dietary research that showed “women tend to gain weight once they move in with male partners.” Researchers found that “Living with a male seemed to put pressure on females to consume more of the ‘unhealthy’ choices.” This
I was all set to write about making “gingerbread” houses from graham crackers, an easy, clever project my son did in art class this weekend. Turns out Martha Stewart beat me to it. (Thanks to Blogging Baby for the sighting.) I’m including, nevertheless, a photo of the house my son decorated, to prove that one
LEGO Bricks were one of the favorite toys of my childhood. I can’t wait until my son is old enough for the gear-filled LEGO Technic sets. I therefore enjoyed reading Business Week’s recent article on The Making of a LEGO Brick (thanks, Slashdot), which details the precise production process (“only 18 out of 1 million
