Saturday Afternoon Pick-Me-Up
I have a cold, a twisted ankle, and a dog who needs to have her anal glands expressed. You really don’t want to hear from me today. No, you want me to post a happy little video, get dressed, and go out...
View ArticleTwenty-Nine Years as Nobody’s Wife
Over on the old blog, we had a tradition of anniversary posts in which an aging — and then dead — dog waxed sentimental over a couple of cranky English profs who had managed to keep company quite...
View ArticleSeeing Edie Windsor
I caught a glimpse of Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in United States v. Windsor, on the steps of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, moments after oral arguments in her challenge to the odious Defense of...
View ArticleRunners’ Worlds
4:14:10 was my time in the one and only marathon I ever ran. Four hours, 14 minutes, 10 seconds. 26.2 miles. The Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC. 1999. I was forty. For the better part of a...
View ArticleObject-Oriented Mom-ology
[Clever allusion in post title explained here. Kinda.] Today is Mother’s Day, a day I mostly loathe, perhaps because I’m not fond of commercially generated displays of rank sentimentality and perhaps...
View ArticleSixty Things I’ve Learned in My Sixty Years
A Guest Post by the Woman Formerly Known as Goose! [Her birthday was a couple of weeks ago, but we're celebrating it this weekend. When I ran across Ian Martin's "Sixty Thoughts on Turning Sixty"...
View ArticleNews for Ladies, Globetrotting Edition
We’re getting ready to go off on an international adventure of our very own in a couple of days, so amuse yourselves with some random snippets of gynocentric news and information, culled from the...
View ArticleNobody’s Wives, Together
Or, Thirty Years of Queer Delight Facebook already knows how this story ends, so I might as well tell you right up front: Reader, I married her. It was an impulse move thirty years in the making, one...
View ArticleA Bitch’s Love Letter to Hillary
November 14, 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton Post Office Box 5256 New York, NY 10185-5256 Dear Secretary Clinton, I am a proud Bitch for Hillary – because “Bitches get stuff done,” as Tina Fey and Amy...
View ArticleA Bitch Dreams of Buddha Hillary
After twelve days of bouncing around between and among numbness, outrage, horror, and sorrow, I had a dream last night that took me close to something like hope and happiness for the first time since...
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