Yes.  No.

On a slightly more serious note -- when the X and I broke up 6 years ago, I spent a lot of time thinking about what had gone wrong and what I could do differently next time.  I think I did change as a result of that experience, and the change made me more skillful at being in a relationship -- but with a different person.  That's probably ( Read more... )

It's official.

And while shaking up people's regional assumptions is always a good thing, I'm finding it bizarre that I can get married in Des Moines but not San Francisco.

At least Mr. Sulu is still married.  Are all the people who got in under the wire now saying "neener, neener"?

It's been weird in CA since November, and it's about to get even ( Read more... )

Marriage equality passed the NY state Assembly.

The quotes from members who changed their no votes to yeses made me cry.  We are going to win this.  Maybe not in NY this year, but we are going to win.

Interesting article in today's Times about NY Assemblymember Daniel O'Donnell (Rosie's older brother) and his efforts to promote the marriage equality bill.  He's been lobbying both Assemblymembers and Senators, Democrats and Republicans,  and sometimes he gets personal -- for example, he told Republican Assemblymember Greg Ball that if he votes " ( Read more... )

MAINE!  Maine, People!

Massachusetts
Vermont
Connecticut
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Maine

This rock isn't just wearing away.  It's fucking exploding. 

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Four pictures of anti-gay assholes with signs.  127 pictures of happy people in love.  Cute babies, too!  There are lots of duplicates, but it's worth clicking through to the end.  Looks like there was an MCC pastor camped outside one of the courthouses getting people all married up as they left -- some really great photos of the weddings.

To Melisa and Shelby, Grant and Andrew, Alicia and Jessica, Curtis and Daren, Patrick and Denny,  and all the other happy Iowa couples who are getting their marriage licenses today.  And a special shout-out to Sean and Tim, who managed to get married right after the trial court ruling, before the judge issued a stay, and will now have some company.

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My cousin R is turning nine, and to mark the occasion she is getting her ears pierced.  So exciting!  Of course I bought her some earrings, and I also decided to give her two old pairs of my own, which my mother gave to me when I had my ears pierced at age five.  One pair actually belonged to my mother originally, when she got her own ears pierced ( Read more... )

Global climate change, or "global scorching," as Rabbi Arthur Waskow would have it.  Actually, "terror" is a better word than "concern," in this scenario.

Although it's not my primary reason for doing it, eating a plant-based diet is the single thing I do that has the biggest impact on environmental issues in general and global climate change in ( Read more... )