VQ Chat Recap: Ferguson and Beyond
Last night’s VQ Chat provided concrete tips for talking to kids about racism and taking action in our communities.
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Grief & loss
7 Tips to Surviving the Holidays after Heartbreak
In addition to twice-weekly yoga classes and my fledgling meditation practice, I’ve found these seven simple actions have a surprisingly powerful impact on my mood.
Grief & loss
When Marriage Equality Activists Break Up
I know that the rights and responsibilities we gained are important not only to couples who stay married, but also those who need to separate.
Family / Kids / Parenting
Dear Baseball, Thank You
I might remember Summer 2014 as The Summer My Marriage Broke but I also want to remember My Boys of Summer.
Family / Parenting
This Is Not Bad. This Is Not Good. This Is Change.
The last time I built an Ikea bookshelf, I was seven months pregnant with K, my almost eight-year-old. Today, I taught him how to place the screw inside the predrilled hole, how to set the drill’s Phillips-head bit into the screw’s crosshatches, and how to pull the orange trigger. […]
Culture / Entertainment
Eclectic Slide: A Very VQ Summer Playlist
We’re hoping this playlist will help you squeeze the last bit of sun out of summer or take you right back there when you need it.
Family / Kids / Parenting
The Summer of Wisecracking and Bickering
We’ve had the Summer of Whining and Bickering, then the Summer of Tantrums and Bickering, followed by the Summer of Phobia-Taunting Adventures and Bickering, and now, welcome to the Summer of Wisecracking and Bickering.
News & Politics
VQ Turns 1: How Do You Measure a Year?
One year ago on this day, VillageQ was born and today I find myself wondering how you measure a year? We could do it by the numbers – by the number of posts and page views and social media followers, by the number of contributors and their accomplishments, by the […]
Family / Parenting
Four Lessons I Learned While Surfing
As we approached the surf shack, my eight-year-old son B looked over his shoulder at the ocean and said, “I can’t wait to wipe out!” “That’s a great attitude,” I chuckled. After a fifteen-minute, on-land surf lesson, B waded into the water with his cousin M and two instructors: one […]
Books / Culture
Keeping It Queer in the Suburbs
Fourteen years ago, I moved out of San Francisco to the suburbs, to shack up with my betrothed. When you do that, move out to the suburbs, San Francisco revokes your queer credibility card at the westernmost point of the Bay Bridge.
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