Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

How exciting for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. This Bronx-born Nuyorican is very proud to have heard the news of today's vote.

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One of the things I am most proud of is how my partner and I share the joy of reading with our children. Our kids clamor to hear our voices telling stories--about trains, funny stories, rhyming stories...books that don't insult their intelligence by being commercials for television shows.

As a follower of Mombian, a queer website about queer parenting, I appreciated being alerted to a great kids' book by the famed author of "Heather Has Two Mommies", Leslea Newman The board book is a wonderfully sweet book about the every day life of a child in the home with a Mommy and a Mama. At first reading, it reminded me of the books by Todd Parr, another favorite in our household. But earlier today as I sat with my daughter in my lap waiting for her Mama, my wife, to come back from running errands, it dawned on me that this book was more than a simple board book. In fact, I truly felt that here was a book that soon-to-be (same-gendered) parents could use to guide them in seeing how queer parenting really is. Beyond saying "look we're just like everyone else", it's comforting to read how easy this recounting of life for queer parents can be. I know not all queer moms go by Mommy and Mama, but in my family we do, and my daughter who isn't even two could point to the pictures and say Mommy and Mama and point to me and my wife. She saw her family, something I can't say she does in 99 percent of the books we read.

Now, convincing heteros that queer parents are just as good is a whole other animal...

NYC Pride 2009

Ahh to be in NYC for Gay Pride. What a great joy to any out loud and proud queer in the city. Even though the queer life I once knew has morphed into something else, pride in NYC seemed the most logical place to go to show my kidlets what a great community we have, even far away in the 'burbs of South Jersey.

(video from El Blog de PJ)


Gay Pride in NY with kids is very different. First, how do you explain pride to toddlers? We did have the pleasure of going to the Gay Center's "Center Kids picnic" in the Village. I had hoped that we could one, expose the kidlets to other queer families (particularly Daddies and Papas) and two, to meet other queer parents to just talk. I think I hoped for too much given the short amount of time we would be in town and, it is very difficult as an adult to strike up new friendships as we once did...

I'm delirious tonight. More with pics soon...

I'm back...and, the sad news

I had been meaning to return to this blog and today was going to be my day.  I got a text message from my sister who told me Michael Jackson died.  I didn't immediately comprehend what she wrote and couldn't believe it.  Lo and behold in fact Michael Jackson, the voice of my childhood, had indeed died.

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I cannot say that the madness of his adulthood was appropriate or questionable, but I can't deny his music was the proverbial soundtrack of my childhood. I truly feel like today, a part of my childhood has died.

Nelly Furtado-Powerless

Yes, I think she's hot.