Happy New Year 2016
A very happy New Year to all of you and your families! It may be an arbitrary point in our journey around the sun, but it also offers us a time to reflect and recharge.
Holidays
Holiday Break
Posting will be light here for the next couple of weeks, but I’ll keep up the fun on Facebook and Twitter. Please join me!
A Two-Mom “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”
A two-mom couple gives us—and their four-year-old son—a great new interpretation of a holiday classic.
Finding Power in Gratitude
Thanksgiving has gotten me thinking about what we as an LGBTQ community have to be thankful for lately. Recent news has been rather sobering.
A Turkey Baster Awareness Message
Herewith my annual public service announcement regarding certain items of kitchenware.
Today Is a Gay Day to Celebrate
Today is a day to remember. Twelve years ago today, same-sex couples gained the right to marry in a U.S. state for the first time. In the U.K., on the same day, the government repealed Section 28, which had prevented local authorities from “promoting homosexuality.” And three years to the day later, my spouse and I made our own marriage legal.
Veterans Day: Pride, Progress, and Perseverance
It’s Veterans Day as well as Military Family Month, and I’m proud of many things, not least my own veteran.
8 Pride Books for Kids
Pride Month is the highlight of the LGBTQ calendar, so here are a few children’s books to help our kids better understand what all the fuss is about. I’ve chosen works specifically about Pride as well as ones that explore other aspects of the LGBTQ rights movement and its history.
Do Lesbian Moms Celebrate Father’s Day?
Father’s Day is this Sunday—a holiday that might seem to exclude children with only moms. The reality is a little more complex.
Mother’s Day: What’s In a Name?
Today is Mother’s Day, which has me thinking about the many ways of being a mother in today’s world, and about the concept of a “parenting identity”—which may or may not correspond with one’s gender identity.