May 20th – Mother’s Day redux
When you have kids, you have to let go of any notion that your day belongs to you. Best laid plans and all that. Same for cats as we learned last weekend when I had to postpone Mother’s Day dinner plans due to Chip’s little bladder adventures. However, my idea that this weekend would be [...]
My favorite pictures from Christmas
More to come later, but we are truly a goofy bunch as proven by these candid shots The Boyfriend (and I) took:
Love and the law: An adoption story. | Be gay about it.
Love and the law: An adoption story. | Be gay about it.. Not the first time I’ve linked to their site – but this may be the most important one – at the end, you will see why FULL EQUALITY is so so so important.
Summer..vacation? Not hardly!
Most people’s summer vacations look like this: Mine look more like this: Boy does my cat have it right! In the last week we have: Set the alarm on both Sat and Sun mornings last weekend for 4:30am so that The Boy could be on the beach at 5:30am with his scuba gear to complete [...]
The friends and family part of NN11
That picture above was from the BEST Pub Quiz ever. We were rowdy, loud, chanting & protesting just about every question and answer. The guys behind me? The Wisconsin Union crew – some of whom really DID protest in Madison this year. At one point they broke out into a chant of “Show me what [...]
Christmas Day photos
The boyfriend brought his new high quality camera for the day, not only ensuring better photos, but also that he would not be in any After lunch there was a rousing round of Payday played between my mom, SportsBoy and I. No film evidence though since our intrepid photographer had slipped upstairs for a nap! [...]
Old school family photos
Watch out folks! I’ve got this scanning thing down and my parents brought me some old photos. Wait, why am I telling you guys to watch out? It’s ME who is going to be mortified at the fashions and hair styles!! This one isn’t too bad actually. I’m 17 here. My mom is behind me, [...]
Julie Jacqueline Bethune
She was Jacqueline or Jax to me. Sometimes in my head I thought of it as “Jacques-eleene!” which was her impression of her French teacher from Bishops saying it. When I met her though, she was Julie. High school. Fall of 1980 and her dorm room was across the hall from mine. Oddly though, I [...]
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