Author Archive
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Worst Parenting Choice So Far
I really messed up as a parent this Christmas.
No, it wasn’t in the gift department. Sassafras loved all her gifts. And I don’t even consider the fact that she ate only jelly for breakfast, only gummy lifesavers for lunch, and had a less than 40 minute nap as messing up. Heck, even SuperParent has to concede [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Non-Bio Mom, Parenting 202, Toddlers by Chicory
Friday, August 10th, 2007
Mommy/Mama
It was always the same series of questions: how did you get pregnant? Who is your donor? What is the baby going to call you?
We developed easy, quick answers to the first two, but that last one was a doozie for quite a while. We just flat-out didn’t know WHAT the baby was going to [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Parenting 202 by Chicory
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Breaking up is hard to do
I’ve been thinking hard about the guest post a few days ago that talked about how the blogs listed here serve as role models for people trying to find their way through queer family making. I agree with that whole heartedly as I, too, have used the blogs listed here to help guide me.
But I’ve [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Non-Bio Mom, The Political Is Personal by Chicory
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Don’t Forget!
No Comments » - Posted in News!!! by Chicory
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Link Work
It’s been a while since we really paid attention to our links here. Funny how people get pregnant, babies get born, kids grow older all while we’re sitting here twiddling our thumbs and, I don’t know, living our lives.
I just spent some time going through our link pages adding and moving people around as needed. [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, site stuff by Chicory
Saturday, May 19th, 2007
Weekend Reading: Four the Pleasure of It *Edited AGAIN*
I have been sadly and inexcusably absent from here for too long. And while I’d like to make this my big comeback, the post to make all the silences worth it… this isn’t it. I have no achingly beautiful or deeply thoughtful words for you.
What I do want to do is point you to someone [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, Weekend Reading by Chicory
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Weekend Reading: More on Non-Bio Momhood
Following up on Lesbian Dad’s post Friday, I wanted to point out some other bloggers who have been talking about how it feels when you consider yourself a mother, but it’s your partner that’s pregnant or the one who gave birth.
Sarah at Journey of a Co-Mom de-briefs us on their Easter visit with her partner’s [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Non-Bio Mom, Weekend Reading by Chicory
Friday, April 13th, 2007
Children of the Future
This is a tag-team post by j (her “voice” in italics) and Trista.
When I was a teenager, just beginning to come out to myself, I bought a book of lesbian short stories. In the collection was the story “When it Changed” by Joanna Russ. This story blew me away. It encapsulated every amorphous feeling that I was [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, Weekend Reading by Chicory
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Sickening
This makes me sick.
Parrott’s ruling ordered Emma Rose to be returned to Deborah Schultz within 10 days, or be declared a “deprived child” and turned over the Georgia Department of Family & Children Services. Hadaway and Shultz met at a truck stop in Jeffersonville, Ga., on Jan. 12, 2007, but Shultz refused to take Emma [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Adoption, News!!!, The Political Is Personal, The Ugly by Chicory
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Question: Am I Just Stingy?
While I would have liked to herald my return to writing for Lesbian Family.org with a deeply heartfelt, moving piece, I’m still just too tired for that. So instead I’ll ask a question.
Would you use a coupon on a first date?
This question was asked on queercents this week as part of their WWYD series. To [...]
