Sometimes talking about the thing that is most obvious is the hardest thing for me to talk about. There could be a big issue….the “elephant in the living room” …it could be a job change, an illness, a troubled relationship, or a conversation that may be hard in how we’ll have it. In some moments, I [...]
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Bedtime
There are two men living in our Lesbian household. Before you get nervous (or oddly curious) you need to know that the oldest is 11 and the youngest is 8. Our two sons. What baffles me lately about these two – and I believe that they are equally yoked in this behavior – [...]
F’bk Posts: Posing a few Good Questions
Most every morning I sit down at the computer and type out a question on my Facebook profile page– I call this posting a “White Horse” question. You see, back when I was in college there was a drinking establishment across the street from our dorm called the White Horse Inn. Sometime [...]
Friending (as a Verb!)
The other morning on Facebook, I “friended” my ‘ole buddy, Truman. You know the truth is, “friending” has always been a verb. Thanks to our participation with Facebook, we now have a name for something we’ve been doing for a long, long time. Our language is so important. How we use the words we use [...]
Lesbian Parenting: What’s the Risk in That??
When my partner Linda and I had been together for nine years, we decided the time had come for us to have kids; we wanted our family to grow. Easier said than done, really, on so many levels. And after many talks — including our extended family and friends,– we met and talked with our [...]
Risk Your Muse
Has anybody ever said to you, “You know, you really ought to be a “brain surgeon” or “ballerina” or “actor“ or “writer”? The possibilities are endless, it seems for things that others can suggest for us. And it just seems so…I don’t know…risky. I was asked to write a prayer for a specific group and I was [...]
Risking Growing Older (gulp)
Risking Growing Older …And the truth is for many, many, many folks, I’m not that old. You know, it’s funny: in the detective books I read (Baldacci, Palmer, de Mille) when there’s “an old sage, weathered detective” in the office they always say, `she is in her fifties…’ At 52 and now on the other [...]
Today: Being at the Crossroad
Risk – (December’s time is here) There is a wonderful verse in the sixth chapter of Jeremiah that begins, “Stand at the crossroads and look…” Every day we are actually doing the ‘’ standing at the crossroads,” and when I am awake enough to remember this fact, I feel more alive. The truth is there [...]
Today’s revelation: what’s behind you and before you…
As I turned my ignition this morning moving out of the driveway, beginning “another typical day,” I realized that I needed to look back to safely go forward. Only and always going forward would soon land me in the garage (and that has never been a destination). But I needed to use my mirrors. To [...]
