Chapter Next…

A few weeks ago, I caught the end of an NPR interview with Andrew Solomon about his book “Far From the Tree.”  Interviewer Robert Siegel asked Solomon about his own “post-nuclear family.” Solomon explains: When I met John, who is now my husband, he told me that he had had some friends, Tammy and Laura,…

Best Wishes? Seriously?

A few of you have been a little bewildered by my most recent post, “Best Wishes.”  Please allow me to explain. First, I was being completely serious.  It’s easy to read snark into the written page- that is where the cyber world falls dreadfully short of the face-to-face ideal.  But I assure you, I was…

Best Wishes

For all the supporters of R-74: Congratulations.  I wish for you all the fullness that this life has to offer.  I pray for depth of relationship, sweetness of abiding peace, and a taste of the greatest love that this life can know. Warmly, theBigot

“Gay marriage won’t affect you,” they say.

Those who advocate for gay marriage often open with the rational that “legalizing gay marriage won’t affect you, a heterosexual-married-woman.”  Some of my heterosexual friends have said that they are for gay marriage because “I may not agree with homosexual relationships but I can’t see how it would impact me.” Besides, many of us are looking…