Earlier this month, I wrote about the word queerspawn, and what I thought about it. I’m working on a replacement name for the offspring of gays and lesbians that doesn’t conjure infection or insects (“spawn”). Although I’ve only seen the word used affectionately by COLAGs (not a good replacement, I’ve decided), it reminded at least two …
Month: June 2018
I committed to writing a blog post every day this month, but today, I just don’t know what to write about. I hosted a sleepover for my 11-year-old last night, and had to get at 2:30 to make the loudest possible shushing noise I could. I’m not sure it worked, but I’m also not sure …
Near the end of my first year of law school, I started dating someone who hadn’t had to endure the minutia of my father’s life and my efforts to reconcile it with mine. Dan just knew my dad was gay, and I left it at that. A couple of months after we started dating, we …
Last night, the person who made me a mother (i.e. my son) graduated from 8th grade. I don’t have many new reflections to share on this moment other than this: My heart swells with happiness over how excited he is to be moving on. Transitions aren’t really his thing – so for him to be …
On Monday, my husband and I went to see This Land at Pier 24. Pier 24 is a cool project. It’s halfway between a gallery and a museum, dedicated to photography. It’s free to the public but it requires an appointment. This Land is a 15 gallery show of different photographers whose works were taking …
Last July, I wrote this column on Creating Your Own Political Giving Strategy. Wow, time flies. Stacey Abrams, the candidate who sparked me to write that won her Georgia Democratic primary, and may be the first female African-American governor in the US. Stacey was one of very few candidates I gave to in the past …
After I had written the seventh draft of my memoir, I decided I should probably try to figure out who my audience for this book might be. I figured PFLAG would be a great start, and then as a I researched similar organizations, I found COLAGE. I started to get excited. When I was a kid, I couldn’t …
Here’s another theory I have for which I have done no research. Food tastes better than it used to. Not a huge revelation, of course. People value food that is locally grown, organic, or heirloom/heritage. Cooking shows have turned the whole world into knowing gourmands, debating the ratio of salt and fat in every dish. …
Seashells are disappearing from the seashore. They have been for years. People have collected them almost out of existence. It’s true that mollusks are always making new ones, but it’s very rare to find shells the size we saw when I was a kid. Meanwhile, hundreds of seashells languish in lamps and jars, or glued …
Last month, in one of those little sidebar articles in The Atlantic, I came across an intriguing idea: That midlife needs to be treated as a distinct developmental period in a person’s life, much the way adolescence is. Historically, there was no such thing as The Teen Years. Children abruptly became adults, accruing responsibilities of …