Hey, I'm the guest blogger this week (well, last week I guess) over at the site for Michigan's Center for the Education of Women! This is a modified version of the editorial I recently wrote for the journal I edit, and which I also posted at Open Salon a couple weeks ago ( Read more... )

(Illinois). That was a sign we all laughed about on the first day of our road trip south. Seems like it ought to be the title of a travel memoir ( Read more... )

...and posted this little memoir slice on my new Open Salon blog ( Read more... )

I wrote this in my editorial column two summers ago, and except for my parents' ages (now 91 and 92), I could say exactly the same thing now. So I will, here ( Read more... )

What American accent do you have?
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On Feb. 14, 1998, glassgirl7  and I married each other in a non-official Quaker-style ceremony attended by 50 friends and family members, and then had a fabulously romantic reception at an Arts&Crafts style B&B. We'd gotten together three years before that, coincidentally also right around Valentine's Day. We have our homespun vows framed on our living room ( Read more... )

I don't know how much hope there is at this point that the deportation can be stopped, but I'm trying to spread the word. You can follow the links to a petition.

Dear Friend,

Brenda Namigadde, a young Ugandan lesbian, is scheduled to be deported from the UK this Friday - back to the life-threatening persecution she fled from eight years ago.

With ( Read more... )

In 2011, ( Read more... )

...is inadvertently whimsical. Here's today's message to staff ( Read more... )

with a nod to mamculuna ...

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )