LesFam Managing Editor Vikki Reich files this report as the last of our regularly scheduled “Lawfully Wedded Life” posts. Some 37 more states continue to battle for marriage equality, and regardless of how or whether we’re partnered, the law’s recognizing that partnership (or not) will be a source for reflection and posts […]
About a month ago, I wrote about my daughter’s frustration with tee ball. She couldn’t get a hit and people laughed at her and I comforted her by telling a slightly related story about my own tee ball experience when I was a kid. The moral of that story was […]
My kids’ last day of school was last Friday and, if you watched my vlog last week, you know that summer break has me a little nervous. We spent the weekend at our friends’ cabin so our kids were surrounded by their best friends and were able to swim and […]
Tantrums. At one point or another, all parents have watched in horror as their previously angelic child turns into something straight out of a horror film. The child’s face contorts and there is screaming and running around and spitting and mayhem! You stand, shocked by the scene unfolding and wonder […]
When we arrived home from school today, my daughter took her lunch box to the kitchen and then wandered into the living room and asked me for a hug. I gave her a big squeeze and rubbed her back and she said, “I needed that after what happened at school.” […]
When Luisa and I began planning our commitment ceremony in 2000, I called my mother to tell her and remember her saying that it wasn’t a “real wedding.” She went on to say that it was actually illegal, clearly missing the nuanced difference between “not legally recognized” and “you could […]
Rainbow flags on the Wabasha Bridge, St. Paul [PHOTO: via VIKKI REICH] Today, the Minnesota state senate will be voting on marriage equality (it having passed the house on Thursday). Vikki, our gal in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, will be there with bells on and a smartphone in hand. […]
Life is busy. Life is even busier with kids. So, how do we cope with the stress of all the things we have to do? I don’t really know but I’m guessing that most of the hints I share in my vlog today are not helpful at all so maybe […]
“Why do you write?” I have been asked this question in every writing class I have ever taken. Growing up and all through college, I wrote music and lyrics and, if anyone had asked me then, I would have said that I wrote because I needed to, because I had […]
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