Courting Equality

S here — last night we all went to a talk by Patricia Gozemba and Karen Kahn about their book, Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America’s First Legal Same Sex Marriages. With a title like that, you can probably guess what the book is about — though it’s worth adding that the book [...]

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Can our relationship survive IKEA?

And the answer is: barely.  Maybe not the relationship, so much as our sanity.
It started off innocently enough.  M wanted nice big cushions to lounge around on, S wanted new towels for the bathroom, and E wanted a nice thermal coffee mug.  We got an IKEA flier in the Sunday paper and thought it would [...]

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Things that go bump in the night

S here — noises that disrupted my sleep last night:
1) The squirrels living in the attic have decided they want a duplex, and are now staking out some space in the living room closet wall.
2) Two of M’s underwear bread bags fell off the posterboard. M worried this meant the squirrels were in his [...]

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Odd weather

This is E; today is October 22 and it is 81 degrees out.  People are walking around in shorts and flip flops and I just got my annual flu shot.  I’m sick of looking at peoples’ feet as I take public transportation back and forth to work.  What happened to fall?  This all just seems so wrong to [...]

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Dumbledore and the playdate circuit

S here — I love it that J.K. Rowling just announced that Dumbledore is gay. What I love even more is that M chose to tell one of his closest friends about it right away. He may not be comfortable having his friends find out that his own mom is a lesbian, but [...]

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Funny moment at the grocery store

S here — M and I were grocery shopping on Saturday. I was waiting at the deli counter and sent him to a case around the corner to get something else. I was calling over to him things like, “No, M, 3 feet to your right.” “No, not that kind, do they have another brand?”
An [...]

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These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things

S here; one of the interesting things that E and I have noticed over the last year is how many random tasks or activities one of us enjoys doing and the other really dreads. This is a good thing, because the more we learn, the more we can allocate tasks to whoever actually likes [...]

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Update on Operation Bread Bag

S here — it’s now Wednesday, and M has actually remembered to change his underwear for the last 2 nights. Hallelujah. Hopefully he can get this habit well established before any of his friends notice his underwear hanging on the wall and make him feel embarrassed about it.
Last night M was whining about [...]

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So what exactly is Operation Bread Bag?

Hello, this is E and I’m taking a break from work to write this. I’m sure you’re curious to know what Operation Bread Bag is so let me explain. Saturday night S says to me, “I did laundry today and I ended up with 12 pairs of clean underwear [i.e. this is 12 [...]

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Why “doorknobs that lock”?

S here — I thought that E would have the honors of writing the next post, about Operation Bread Bag, but since she’s probably still stuck at work then I’ll go ahead and explain the title for our blog.
After E and I had been dating for a few months, we started pondering the logistics of [...]

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