Like thousands of other people across the U.S. and the world today, I protested the passage of Proposition 8. It might have been abnormally hot in San Francisco today, but everybody was in a good mood. Lots of people seemed to enjoy the sign that my girlfriend and I made:

Here are some more excellent signs […]

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Last Friday was my first Halloween in Fairfax. Talk about small-town shenanigans! Apparently Halloween in Fairfax is a Big Deal, and it draws hundreds and hundreds of costumed children from the surrounding area. They get there early, around 4 p.m., to go trick-or-treating at the businesses in downtown Fairfax, then they go trick-or-treating down the […]

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Last weekend I moved to the country. Well, to a small town called Fairfax (population: 7,070 + me), which is about 45 minutes north of San Francisco. This town is known primarily for its ice cream shop, The Scoop (I can testify to its complete gloriousness), and for its somewhat eccentric identity. Let’s just say […]

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Marriage is a such a complicated word. I used to think it was an archaic concept out of touch with today, because in many, many cultures, it was a contractual bond between a man and a woman for the purpose of ensuring property rights. If this sounds a bit brutal, consider that marriage between members of the aristocracy was often a means of forging political alliances, and rarely for romantic love. Marriage in the lower classes was more likely to give consideration to romantic love because less property was involved.

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True confession time: I am fascinated by agriculture. I believe this began when I first read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Farmer Boy as a kid. Sure, everybody loves Little House on the Prairie etc., but my favorite of her books was her mouth-watering depiction of Almanzo Wilder’s childhood on a farm. The food in that book […]

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The last Friday in August marked my last day as managing editor of AfterEllen.com, the website I’ve been writing for since 2003. I’ll still continue to write my column, Notes & Queeries, for AfterEllen.com, but I’m no longer wrangling lesbian entertainment five (plus) days a week. Although there are certainly aspects of that job that […]

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At the end of March I took a whirlwind trip to the East Coast, where I visited a bunch of friends, met my editor and agent for the first time in New York, attended the christening of my friend’s son, and stopped by Wellesley College to give a talk with Sarah Warn during their LesBiTrans […]

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It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on my blog and, well, my only excuse is that I’ve been swamped with AfterEllen.com work as I get ready to go on vacation for a week! More about that in a bit, but first up: My latest Notes & Queeries column was published last Thursday, and it focused […]

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