The Gaydi Project: Honey, you really dated a lot of frogs. But for all your trouble, I gotta say, you ended up marrying the greatest guy out there.
Me: Yeah. I dated a lot of frogs alright.
TGP: Well, actually, that’s not true. You dated a number of really neat guys, too. Guys that I liked.
Me: Yeah. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Family'
About the amphibians
June 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Airing some seriously dirty laundry
June 4th, 2008 · 17 Comments
My family is effed up.
I don’t speak with the small man who is my father. I rarely speak with my youngest brother and the one who is just 18-months younger than me? Well. I had to extricate him from my life more than seven years ago. It sounds cruel but it was an act of [...]
Do we really turn into our mothers?
June 2nd, 2008 · 7 Comments
After using a fahncy, marble encased bathroom stall at Bloomingdale’s this afternoon, I met my mother at the row of sinks. Incidentally, for all of her outrageousness, she’s more of a rule-follower than I am and she opted for a regular stall, whereas I have no qualms about using the one intended for the wheelchair [...]
Tags: Family · Life · Parenting · Photography · The Column · The Gaydi Project
Self portait on a sunny afternoon
May 25th, 2008 · 23 Comments
I’ve heard it said that “The Terrible Two’s” is a myth and that really, what’s terrible are the threes. Ruby won’t be three for another month but I see what’s ahead because ahead has already mowed me down. Sometime during the last week, my beautiful, darling daughter was snatched up and replaced by a person [...]
Tags: Family · Life · Marriage · Parenting · Sleep Issues · Therapy Fund (Parenting Failures)
I cried in the car today
May 15th, 2008 · 8 Comments
When all the rest of the news—global, national, local—is so very bad, this fabulous, rainbow-colored, boa-wearing tid bit sashayed from within my speakers as I drove along Torrey Pines Road, handed me a cosmo and blew me kisses that tingled my spine. Of course, petitions to put gay marriage before voters are already underway. And [...]
Tags: Bits & Pieces · Family · Politics
Only T.P Goes In There: Who knew that propylene glycol wasn’t biodegradable?
May 13th, 2008 · 11 Comments
It began with denial. Several weeks ago, our quiet Toto toilet started making a prolonged and high-pitched hissing sound when flushed. Then one morning not long after, Sam asked whether I’d noticed the shower was slow to drain. I hadn’t noticed, actually. But maybe that’s because I’d decided to boycott bathing until one of [...]
Tags: Backwards and In High Heels · Family · Photography · The Column · Writing
Life imitating art: Indoctrinating the next generation
April 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments
“This is why terrorists want to kill us.”
That was the stellar comment left on a post at boingboing.net regarding a new picture book for children, and it’s pretty much the exact reaction I had when I saw the illustrated cover of My Beautiful Mommy. The tongue-in-cheek assessment is not without merit: If this book is [...]
Tags: Backwards and In High Heels · Family · Government · The Column
Her Saturday morning perspective
April 12th, 2008 · 10 Comments
“Ruby, tell mama to stop being so grumpy.”
“STOP! BEING! SO! GRUMPY! MAMA!”
“Ruby, tell daddy to stop being a jerk.”
“…….Daddy not being a jerk… Mama being a JERK!”
Tags: Family · Marriage · Parenting
We’re the same
February 21st, 2008 · 9 Comments
Ruby was having her breakfast this morning and I was sitting across from her, tying my shoelaces, huffing and gasping for air, thanks to my pnuemonia which doesn’t seem to want to loosen it’s suffocating grip on my lungs. Who knew that bending over could be so rigorous?
As I sat up, the kid had one [...]
Sunday morning sermon
February 17th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Sam was straightening the bedroom and I was burying myself further beneath the pile of blankets, promising as I did so, to drag my ailing self out from under them in just one more minute.
From the kitchen, we heard Ruby exclaim, “Aw, mAAAAAn! What HAPpen my balOOn?!?”
And so began the explanation about a gas called [...]






