Love Ya Bunches and Scholastic Book Fairs Near You
Yesterday on Facebook I started seeing friends link to this petition asking Scholastic to stop censoring gay-friendly books. (Scholastic, for folks not in the US or not parenting kids in school, is a a...
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Article 23
(This post was actually written by the fine folks at the Courage Campaign website (thanks to a post by Lesbian Dad, who saw a reminder from hekebolos at DailyKos):Progressives are closer than ever to a...
View ArticleSloppy Data on Stupak Analysis
Phillip Levine has an Op-Ed piece in the Times today, "False Alarm on Abortion," and as Curious Girl has a play date going on, Politica and I are sitting here in the living room, talking politics and...
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The friendly folks at Henry Holt sent me a review copy of Rhoda Janzen's Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. I received the book free, but no other compensation.Laura at 11D says that Mennonite in a...
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Partners in Health and Doctors Without Borders are doing amazing work in Haiti and around the world.I followed the story of the BRESMA orphanage in Haiti (the children there all got airlifted out of...
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The New Normal
Dana is hosting the 5th annual Blogging for LGBT families day, and that seems like a good excuse to get back in the business of blogging again. So here goes....Hello blog and readers: I've missed you....
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Curious Girl is reading Warriors: Into the Wild, the first book in a series set in a kitty universe where clans of cats negotiate territory, myths and history, and build social alliances. As a series,...
View ArticleAre we having fun yet?
It's been a hard summer so far, and this week has been hardest of all. What with the zillion degree heat, none of our coping skills have been particularly wonderful, and we're back into a rather...
View ArticleSt. Harriet
I'm starting to re-read The Dance of Anger tonight, starting by browsing for some inspiration. One I've noted already:We may view it as our responsibility to control something that is not in fact...
View ArticleQuick Vacation Blogging
Why is it that long days full of vacation activities are making it harder for Curious Girl to sleep? At least our vacation digs have some very lovely king-sized beds so drawn-out bedtimes are...
View ArticleConsidering Origins
I usually love the Lives column in the New York Times Magazine. No surprise that someone who blogs--no matter how slowly or sporadically--likes personal essays that offer brief glimpses of other...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Hello there, invisible friends in the computer! Happy new year to one and all.Oh, the posts I have started in my head and never finished. Like the one on girls, science, and Curious Girl's birthday...
View ArticleWWGMD
Curious Girl has recently learned that a slightly younger friend of her has her own e-mail account. As she learned this via borrowing my e-mail account to send a message to this (distant) friend, she...
View ArticleWhere I'm From
I am from sandy beaches, from Coppertone and flip flops and beach towels and bike rides from my house to Patricia's and back again.I am from the house around the corner from the bay, with lilacs out...
View ArticleHovering over Hopscotch
I've been thinking about helicopter parents a lot this summer. While Wikipedia tells me that Foster Cline coined the phrase in a 1990 book, I came to hear the term more via the NYT ever-odd coverage of...
View ArticleSwanky Science
Blogging, even intermittently as I seem to do these days, has brought me the good fortune of friendships with so many interesting people in the computer. Some I've actually met in real life; others...
View ArticleLooking Up
There's a folder on my iPhone labeled Space, and in that folder is the NASA app, and a star gazing app, and apps that show the phases of the moon, and ones that let me explore the surface of both Mars...
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The Arc of the Moral Universe
Jody posted today about book spine poems, and here's one from me. I'll call it Maryland, I think.Anyone else want to play along?
View ArticleGood Viewing: Love Makes a Family, and Practice Makes an Eater
Just a short pointer to a very cool documentary made by The Devotion Project. It's called Listening from the Heart, and it profiles two loving women and their almost four-year-old son. He's got a...
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There are some newborn babies being rocked in their pumpkin seats at the table behind me at the coffee shop. They're sleeping, their wrinkled little hands involuntarily curling as their bodies snuggle...
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