Below are highlights from this blog’s most active half-dozen or so years.
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013
2006
- Happy Blogging for LGBT Families Day!
My entry for Mombian’s Blogging for LGBT Families Day, 2006: what I learned at my first Pride as a parent. June 1, 2006
- Who’s the daddy?
A father’s day rumination, with a twist. June 19, 2006
- Plus ça change, or Prides I have known
An account of my second Pride as a parent, with a reflection on how the times they are a-changin’. June 27, 2006
- Mommy wars, the lesbian episode, pt 1
First of a two-part bit on the political ramifications (or lack thereof?) of lesbian motherhood. Part two tucks into this one in a link at the end of it. August 2, 2006
- That boy in the blue sweater is a girl
A short Gender 101, with my Pops as ever-useful foil. November 15, 2006
- Re: Subordination
The pain of the Also-Ran parent. November 22, 2006
2007
- A cautionary New Year’s Tale, or Homo not so sapiens
How stupid can a Baba be? Read it and weep! January 1, 2007
- Tilt!
Hurricane Toddler finally hits. February 5, 2007
- Ten high and low points in one day (Adoption Day)
The rollercoaster ride of second-parent adoption ends with a BANG! not a whimper. February 10, 2007
- Parenthood changes you
An auntie decathlon at the state fair provides the backdrop for this realization. May 3, 2007
- It’s all relatives
A response to Peggy Orenstein’s NY Times magazine piece on egg donation: she left something out. July 19, 2007
- Thanks giving
The faint tendril of hope that is the post-miscarriage pregnancy, carried by a bird in the snow. November 22, 2007
2008
- Something borrowed
From a series (old-new-borrowed-blue): tepus fugit. February 14, 2008
- Confessions of a Lesbian Dad (link to the first in a six-part series) A previously published essay, meted out in six excerpts, answering the pressing question: How did I become a Baba? January 25 – February 1, 2008
- The Hitchin’ Post
My beloved’s and my commitment ceremony vs. the marriage equality ruling. June 19, 2008
- Election day
How I spent the day, and how it spent me. November 11, 2008
- A chat with Ben
A conversation with a friend, post-election. December 4, 2008
- Pas de Deux
A conversation with a stranger, post-election. December 24, 2008
2009
- Maddow Widowers’ Support Group, open for business
In which I moon about my also-ran status around the household. February 18, 2009
- We get what we get
Gender is always performance. March 11, 2009
- The political is personal
Notes from a lecture to college students about how I write this blog. March 31, 2009
- The worst are full of passionate intensity
A lengthy meditation on hate crimes, spiritus mundi, and Mississippi courage. June 12, 2009
- Royal Dance
Tea at the Palace Hotel, and the invitation to dance. September 8, 2009
- Girl oracle
It’s about time. December 18, 2009
2010
- For ever and ever and ever
Transience, hope, and the challenging journey into full-spectrum boyhood. February 5, 2010
- 20 questions about lesbian fatherhood
Some local college students asked; I answered. February 24, 2010
- La caballista
In which she mounts her first horse. April 28, 2010
- Et tu, Glee?
Elphaba ate Rachel’s dads, basically, and I am not happy. May 20, 2010
- Open house
At the end of our daughter’s Kindergarten year, I find how much I have to learn. May 28, 2010
- Optical allusion
The young man looks at my boy in his dres; I look at him, and he looks back. June 18, 2010
2011
- Straight on ’til morning
My daughter practically dares me to tell her she can’t fly. April 15, 2011
- Back to School, LGBT parent version
A brain dump of evergreen resources and must-do’s. August 30, 2011
- Treat or trick!
Halloween dress-up, dressed-down. November 1, 2011
- 20+ questions about my gender & sexual identity, parts 1 and 2
These Qs asked by my special niece, for a middle school project. November 6, 2011
- The naked truth
Sendak, censorship, xenophobia, and how much the young already know. November 12, 2011
- Christmas Lullaby
My beloved blesses us, everyone, with a rendition of Jason Robert Brown’s song. December 24, 2011
2012
- In the gloaming
A quiet evening, mindful of the precious, fleeting moment. June 1, 2012
- Fall Guy
A bunch of things fell, all a-tumble. August 31, 2012
- That’s what she said
Out of the school-issue pencils of babes. October 4, 2012
- My lady love
A short ode to my beloved, with musical accompaniment. November 15, 2012
- Post-prandial
About my co-housing “village” and why the second most challenging relationship outside my family of origin is worth the effort. November 23, 2012
2013
- At 92
Saying “yes” in life twice as many times as “no” will get you pretty far. January 14, 2013
- Twenty blogiversary observations
Seven years in, not so itchy. March 16, 2009
- If you build it, they will come
You know you’ve arrived when you get hate mail from strangers. April 12, 2012
- Thank you
After such a long, long battle for equal access to the 1,138 federal benefits, rights, and privileges of legally recognized marriage, finally, just these two words. June 27, 2013
- Ninety two things about my dad
A hagiography, consisting of one anecdote for each year he was here. November 18, 2013
- Home, lost and found
Thoughts on my first fatherless thanksgiving. November 28, 2013