Hi! I haven’t written a thing for six months, oops. I owe my silence to a particularly busy spring and summer which included a family trip to New Zealand, a solo yoga retreat, training for and running a marathon, completing a big curriculum project for work, not to mention various weekend adventures to hot springs, the beach, camping with queers(!) and lots of time laying by the pool. Here are a few snaps of our adventures. So what’s up on the…
For those of you (mostly queers I imagine) who have seen If These Walls Could Talk 2, you may recall the final short starring Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGeneres as a lesbian couple trying to have a baby. My favorite scene is towards the end when the couple finally purchases the sperm they plan to use for insemination. Ellen’s character comes rushing home with it in a giant metal canister and Sharon’s character meets her at the door wearing boxers,…
When Mrs S and I began seriously discussing creating a family together, we knew we wanted to have our own biological children. We each hoped to carry a child because we both wanted to experience pregnancy. Since Mrs. S is older, she was first in line for pregnancy. This was just fine with me because at the time, I wan’t quite ready for an alien invader in my uterus. Once we started talking in earnest about choosing a donor, I started to feel really really sad. It hit…