Another book review

This review is fluffier than the previous one, though!
My friend CrankyOtter is a big fan of Suzanne Brockmann’s books. They’re romances with lots of Navy SEALs and FBI agents and all sorts of stuff that normally I’d never read, except that Suzanne Brockmann is a darn good writer, and CrankyOtter has gone beyond ardent [...]

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Book review

I recently heard about the book “Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is” by Abigail Garner. It had excellent reviews on Amazon and my local library could get it through inter-library loan. So I was all excited waiting for the book to come in.
It came yesterday, [...]

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Coffee and blood, part two

S here. I got home from the blood drive and started going through my mail.  There was a catalog with random trivia blurbs in it, including this gem: “Turkish law allows a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.”  I’m glad we’re not in Turkey, [...]

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A pound of coffee for a pint of blood

Hello all, E here, talking about blood for coffee and it’s not a gross as it sounds.  Anyone who knows me, even a little, knows that I love coffee.  There’s a blood drive close to S’ house tonight and if you give blood they give you a coupon for a pound of coffee from a [...]

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We’re such a threat

You know all those people who think gay marriage is such a threat to traditional marriage and traditional families?
They better watch out.  Because our deviant family of two-lesbians-with-kid just spent last night watching the football game and doing a find-the-word puzzle.  Oh, the horrors.  Civilization as we know it will be ending any minute now.
It’s [...]

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The tooth fairy was preoccupied

Things that can interrupt an early-morning romantic moment: hearing M and my mother having a nice loud conversation in the hallway about the fact that the tooth fairy had forgotten to leave any money under M’s pillow the night before.  Of course the tooth fairy had to forget on a night my mom was visiting.
Oops.  [...]

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Lost and (not yet) found

After several years of losing hats, lunchboxes, snowpants, raincoats, and gloves at school, M has finally figured out how not to lose his possessions there.
He’s started to lose mine instead.
Unbeknownst to me, he went to school this morning with a pair of my gloves.  Only one glove made it home.  The other is supposedly somewhere [...]

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John Cabot, intrepid explorer

Don’t you just hate it when you spend months sailing around, trying to find a northwest passage to India, only to discover that “The real obstacle is this huge continent that is in the way,”  as the neighbor’s kid summarized it for her project.
Time to go help her with her trunk.  M’s project is done, [...]

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Jacques Cartier, intrepid explorer

What happens when you cross a 16th century explorer with a 10-year-old doing a project for school? Well, if the 10-year-old is M, you get this series of fictitious journal entries:
Dear Journal,
Yesterday I received a letter from my dear wife Catherine de Granches pertaining to whether I was all right and the expedition moving [...]

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T-minus 7 months and counting

S here. I am a long-range planner; I freely admit it. M’s summer camp offers a 10% discount if you sign up in early January, and so each year I figure out 7 months in advance which weeks we’ll go on vacation and which weeks he’ll go to camp. His camp has [...]

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