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 kid front?  Well, we started potty training two months ago.  I've been asked by many why we decided to jettison ...

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, a lacy bra, and a feather boa. The couple awkwardly make their way upstairs where you see that Sharon has ...

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 home that we couldn't make a baby together.  It was one of those times when being gay became very inconvenient.  We ...