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The Joy of Losing
Wed May 14 2014
It's baseball season again. Because I have more enthusiasm than self-preservation, I signed Big Pants up for travel baseball. Because, yay, baseball! Read more »
Growing Up Straight in the Gay World
Tue May 13 2014
I grew up a straight girl in a gay world, the opposite of what most gay people experience, but with the same problems of lack of place. View at huffingtonpost »
What If We Treated Marriage More Like the Contract It Is?
Wed Nov 27 2013
Is marriage essentially flawed, or am I? View at huffingtonpost »
The Helping Hand of a Manly Man
Fri Nov 15 2013
Messages in bottles don’t always wash up on the proper shore, even on the expansive beach of the Internet. Sometimes people see them and step over them, not knowing how important they are. Sometimes people only see how pretty the glass bottle is. Every now and then, though, someone pulls the cork, removes your message, and reads it. View at goodmenproject »
Being Raised by Lesbians
Fri Nov 15 2013
The story everyone wants to hear isn’t the story I want to tell. Everyone wants to know what it was like to be raised by lesbians, how we functioned, what made it different. I want to talk about other things, the things that formed me and shaped me and scarred me. Not my mother’s sexuality. View at brainchildmag »
Same, Same, Same, Same, Same, Different, Different, Different
Thu Oct 31 2013
My first ex-mother-in-law had six kids: three girls in a row, followed by three boys in a row. "They come as they come," she used to always say, meaning that their inherent personality was fixed and unchangeable from birth. Read more »
How My Father's Serial Divorce Affected Me
Mon Oct 28 2013
I never expected how my father’s serial divorce would affect me over time. View at goodmenproject »
I Want to be More Outrageous
Mon Oct 21 2013
Being a little crazy is better than being a little boring, even if it is not as safe. Read more »
What a Boy’s Love of Baseball Taught His Sports-Averse Mother
Mon Sep 30 2013
I’m glad he has passion about something, but baseball? Of all the interesting things in the world, must he pick the one thing I don’t like? As I inundated both boys with art and music and science, I believed that I could shape my kids to be more like me than their sports-enthusiast father. Apparently, I was wrong about that. View at goodmenproject »
I Used to Believe, Now I Know
Tue Sep 17 2013
I used to believe that my mother was complicit in everything that went wrong in my life. View at thefeministwire »
Are You Prettier Than Your Mother?
Thu Sep 12 2013
I looked over my shoulder as I was getting in the shower and saw my naked back. I paused for a moment to really look and see what aging is doing to me. The mirror reflected back a younger version of my mother’s bottom. View at brainchildmag »
Boys Are Useful In Unexpected Ways (and I have a water feature)
Fri Aug 16 2013
Sometimes kids are handy to have around. I don't mean because they fill your heart with joy or keep you young, or teach you patience. Sometimes they are down right useful. Read more »