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How old is Nat?

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...to the Typepad side:The wait is over, welcome to Peter's Cross Stationp.s. there's more baby pictures over there

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We're off to Chicago yet again (these will be Nat's fourth and fifth one-way trips to or from Chicago since her birth 15 days ago), for our day in court. Apparently, in Cook County, adoptive families go to court once, on the front end of adoption proceedings, and get the final papers in the mail six months later.Our court date is tomorrow at noon, so we're staying over night in a 5-star (ie:

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We're off to Chicago yet again (these will be Nat's fourth and fifth one-way trips to or from Chicago since her birth 15 days ago), for our day in court. Apparently, in Cook County, adoptive families go to court once, on the front end of adoption proceedings, and get the final papers in the mail six months later.Our court date is tomorrow at noon, so we're staying over night in a 5-star (ie:

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Yesterday's weigh-in reports that Nat is steadily gaining weight. I suppose that is truly a good thing, but given our love affair with slings, over here, I am appreciating her smallness. We are now at three slings and counting, plus a Bjorn handed down by our practice baby, Amaya's parents. Each has its own unique appeal, and we love them all.Who knew that getting a baby would lead to such an

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Here are some randomly selected thoughts floating through my sleep-deprived brain.Our friends Cris and Stephanie came to see Nat. They are waiting too, with the same agency, and we told them to get ready, because you never know...Stephanie shared her new "five-second rule" of "assvice" as the blogosphere refers to it. The rule is "if you can think of it in 5 seconds, I can think of it in 5

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The Ofoto album works for me, so I'm guessing it's some kind of weird password thing. But here are some highlights. If THIS doesn't work, let me know and I will upload some to my own domain, but really, like I have time for that! Come on, Ofoto!She's changing so fast, she doesn't even look like this anymore. Her birth-canal cone head is nice and round now and her face is less squished and

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I think I got enough sleep in the car on the way home from Chicago today to write somewhat coherently. And I want to get it down before I forget a single thing.Here's what happened to Mama Shannon and Mom Cole:We got a phone call on Thursday afternoon. A birth mother had just been by the agency, having given birth two days before, and the social worker, Emily, thought we'd be a perfect match.

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Thanks to:EmilieKerryLyndsayMaryMichelleSarahTishDesireeAbigailBethHarmonyCourtney C.Courtney M.LoriKimLauraCarrieNathaliaTracy M.AnnieTracy B.AnnaLinzeyNicoleElizabethKristenElanaEricaRuthHeidiElizabeth A.JillStephaniefor writing their Congressional reps via the "protect Nat's family" link.Nat is very little and could use all the protection she can get!

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here is today's ofoto album. Let me know if you can't see it.it features nat with many eager aunties, uncles and cousins--nevermind two ecstatic parents--including sasha, grant, david, kal and big cousin, aviva.well, nat is a "good" eater and sleeper (i never thought it was fair to call babies "good" at basic functions--as if they might be "bad!") but she much prefers someone's arms rocking her

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5 pounds, 11 ounces, 18.5 inchesborn 22 February, 3 amhome 25 FebruaryHere we are in the agency office meeting Nat for the first time:Here we are home again, after a long day:This all happened very fast and we are in shock, but in a good way. We're head-over-heels in love with our fantabulous daughter. She does all the things babies are supposed to do--only she does them better. She's a

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All your prayers and thoughts and hopes and candles and incense and "come on" songs and crossed digits did the trick.We are on our way to Chicago to pick up our three day-old daughter, Natasha Marie.More ASAP.

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Just to be extra loud and clear. Everyone please know that I in no way disagree with Wanna Be Mom's sentiment, or am picking any bones with her. Her exact words just happened to be the ones that sent me down a certain thought-path.

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In the comments on the Maya Keyes post below, Wanna Be Mom asks:"Don't you just wish you could go upstairs and make a baby like your straight friends?"It's a timely question, not only because of my pop-culture induced age-35-anxiety of late, but because the topic of general attitudes to adoption has been opened at The Naked Ovary and just because I do a lot of thinking about this anyway.And my

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As promised, I have added my new entrepreneurial aspiration to the links at right. If you scroll down far enough and squint hard enough, you'll see Lilysea Designs Unique and Custom Jewelry.A few years ago, I discovered that I enjoyed going into those bohemian little bead stores in trendy parts of towns (many towns) and buying little beads (many little beads), which I then enjoyed sifting

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Thanks to Linda, Krista, Stephanie and Joylyn for helping to protect Nat's family.

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Much as I enjoy his work, I must take issue with Dan Savage.It seems the closet lost yet another occupant this week in the person of Maya Keyes, daughter of Illinois carpet-bagger, Alan Keyes, most recently infamous in queer circles for calling Mary Cheney a "selfish hedonist" by virtue of her being a lesbian.Dan says that though he assumes there is rejoicing across the land, "I can't enjoy this

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We saw a wonderful play in Chicago for my birthday. Intimate Apparel tells the story of a Black woman who makes fancy undies for rich white ladies in turn of the century NYC. It was a lovely production, with fun sets and a fabulous lead actress and lots of scenes of women in lacey corsets (if you must know). Get thee to the Steppenwolf Theatre if you are within 200 miles of the vicinity and

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We are back from our festive weekend, but before I tell you anything else, I want to thank Laurie, Genevieve, Mary, Naomi, Erica, Donna and Susan for helping to protect Nat's family via our HRC link.Additional thanks to...Elsa, Lynne, Sarah, Kay, Lorena and Alicia.Thanks also for encouraging email from Erica and for singing cats from Pearl and co.!

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Mopsa brings us the news: Kris Gillespie is running for State Senator in Texas. So it looks like she used the show for PR. Wow. Waitress Dreams has a link to Gillespie's email if you'd like to contact her. I told someone this morning I'd rather put her on my prayer list than flame her, but now I see she's volunteered to be under public scrutiny so I will certainly send her a few choice

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My partner and I are kind of addicted to "Wife Swap" one of reality tv's latest attempts to sensationalize Middle America. I even looked up the forms for volunteering to be on the show (while my partner rolled her eyes in the other room, and humored me silently). I figured they needed a good example of a lesbian wife to really round out their concept. Alas, families on the show have to have

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Thanks to Kelly for helping to protect Nat's family! Amending to add: Elaine, Emily and Rachel! Settle down, kids, settle down! (Just kidding, of course--keep it up!)

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My birthday is Sunday, folks. 13 February 1970. That's right, I will be turning 35--the popular media's new expiration date for bio motherhood. Now that I've given it some thought, what formerly seemed an arbitrarily assigned Nat deadline in my subconscious--February--makes transparently freudian sense. I am such a dupe. I have been reassurred that in France, women are fertile until age 37,

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Thanks to two different Jennifers!

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to Heidi and Michelle for contacting their Congress members via our "Help Protect Nat's Family" link. FIFTY people have now used our link to write representatives and otherwise do good on our behalf. I can't believe it. The HRC wanted me to spam my friends about our "action page" and I refused to do it. I never suspected fifty strangers would wander by this blog and be so kind. So I

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My partner woke me up about an hour earlier than usual this morning. As I was groggily wondering why, she announced, "I called the adoption agency!" We had said one of us would call sometime soon, as we're coming up on four months of waiting this week. I asked her what they had to say. It seems we are now quite near the very top of the "second page" (for more on what this doesn't mean, see

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For your paper-bound, parent-reading pleasure, catch this month's article "Body Language" in Nick Jr. Magazine, by my fellow writing group member, Jody. ************** Thanks to Kimberly for using the "Help Protect Nat's Family" link to write her Congress members about Son of the FMA. ************** New to the blogroll is Sara Skates. Sara and her partner have two kids, 7 and 4. Seems that

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Dear Secretary Spelling, I am alarmed by a recent report by the Associated Press suggesting that as many as 30% of public high school students in the United States do not know what rights are protected in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Furthermore, when shown a copy of the First Amendment, many students believe it "goes too far" in protecting the rights of free expression of U.S.

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Well that was embarrassing. My local PBS station wrote back saying they are airing the Sugartime Buster show. For the life of me, it was nowhere on their website. But after much email banter, it looks like the station manager and I are friends for life. So WILL watchers, tune in March 23rd and see a bunny and his lesbian maple sugaring friends sing folk tunes and tap trees. Meanwhile,

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Ambivalent thanks to Robin for pointing out GW Bush's latest attack on queer families: "I believe children can receive love from gay couples, but the ideal is -- and studies have shown that the ideal is where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman." Now, we all know how much Bush studies, so it isn't hard for someone with the I.Q. of a cephalopod to realize that the man

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The brilliant Andrea of Mother Shock has tipped me off that Sunday's New York Times has an article about the "mommy blog" phenomenon. Though it tips its hat appropriately to Mother Shock, the book, the overall message of the article seems to be, "Who wants to read about parenting?" and "what is wrong with the people who write these blogs?" And though they include a smattering of token daddies,

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Thanks to Jeni and Lisa for availing themselves of the resources at "Help Protect Nat's Family" and sending a letter to Congress. Updated to add thanks to Aaron, Jessica and Karla AND Jody and Kate and Leah!

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Well, here they go again. The Congress is trying for an anti-gay marriage amendment and the HRC (as much as I love to hate them) have provided a convenient form letter you can access via our "Protect Nat's Family" link at right. Thanks to Valerie for doing just that. In other news, PBS has decided not to distribute its episode of the Arthur spin-off in which Buster the rabbit visits a

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"In my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil." Lemony Snicket The Slippery Slope For a brief, dark time in my past life, I worked as a clerk in one of the evil empire's chain bookstores. I really needed a job. It was like falling off a log to get one there, having grown up in a bookstore, as I did. So there I was, making $8 an hour, feeling guilty, telling customers to try

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Okay, maybe we're pretty weird here at Waiting for Nat. Yeah, well, we are quite weird and proud of it. And we really are not the sorts to go judging the family-making decisions of others. But a feminist bulletin board acquaintance recently posted a plea for advice on a situation of some concern to her. Seems some family friends who are rather extremist in their right-wing Christianity (even

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We had to go to Target (you know how to pronounce that, right? "Tar-jhay" a la francaise) anyway. All week long, rooms have been going dark around here, one by one. It is not good to be out of lightbulbs on the prairie in January. Just ask Laura Ingalls Wilder if you don't believe me. Besides, I needed some wire cutters and our newly tiled kitchen really deserved a new rug in front of the

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But I will be 35 in less than a month and I'm feeling all bio-clocky for the first time in my life. I am absolutely certain that it is the helpless waiting posture combined with a finely-tuned sense of fertility hypochondria I have developed by reading many brilliant blogs by the reproductively challenged. Yesterday I was in such a state, that after a discussion with my partner about future

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Get it? Yesterday I was going to post something about the inauguration. I was going to tell the witty tale of how, at the last one, I was protesting with a friend and I called this guy a fascist in front of his 13 year-old son (I did it very politely--even somewhat indirectly--and he had already, less politely and quite directly, called me something equally horrid, so stop imagining some

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This is such an odd part of adoption. Not a day goes by that my partner doesn't ask "where's our baby?" As if I knew. But it's her little mantra. I think she does it to remind herself that we're expecting. To tell you the truth, I have a confession. I don't really believe a baby is going to arrive at all. We have the crib (and our borrowed babies have really enjoyed it). We have piles of

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At long last, after many unkept promises (three appointments, to be exact) the tile guys showed up in our kitchen yesterday and saved us from this: delivering us to this: Yep, I designed that tile pattern myself, thank-you-very-much! Remind anybody of any modern artist maybe? Anybody? Anybody?

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Features of my three-week hiatus included: Taking my mother-in-law and her best friend to dinner and a play in Philadelphia, where, though they live twenty minutes away, they rarely venture, much preferring free senior weekends in Atlantic City. My mother-in-law and her aforementioned friend will be spending our $22 of lottery winnings at the slots next week, in fact. Reading up to book 10 of

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I realize you are all sick with jealousy that we are in Bensalem, PA, and you are not. Bensalem, PA is a suburb of Philadelphia that might as well just be New Jersey, given its cultural and topographical context. After two weeks here in this internet-challenged burgh, we figured we'd stop by the public library on our way to DC for yet another week of vacation. All hail the academic schedule!

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My partner's friend stopped by our place on her way to her mother's house for the holidays. She and her three year-old and ten month-old daughters were in our home for about 16 hours. For eight of those hours, they were all sleeping. Nevertheless, by the time they left, we were absolutely wiped out. And the worst news is, they were really good kids. Happy baby. Loving big sister. Nice

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Yesterday, my mother asked me if knowing that I have a clutch of regular readers (however small) makes me feel pressured to produce writing for an expectant audience. It didn't until she asked. Hence, "Advent Four" is a day late, and boy am I glad there aren't 5 weeks in Advent. But this week, I thought I'd share with you my definition of my faith. Throughout my over-education in all things

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How's that for freshly baked staff of life? Pretty tasty, too! Alas, my black silk robe will never be the same.

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I spent most of yesterday cooking for my students. Here's what I made: chocolate/peanut butter chip cookies apple crisp quesadillas that layered dip people like, including homemade guacamole homemade salsa potato latkes* and homemade applesauce I didn't actually think my students would show up in great numbers. I have parties for my students at the end of every semester I teach, and the

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I have this fabulous, French, black, silk, floor-length robe, which my partner purchased for me in a weak moment (thankfully, she has a lot of those). It makes me feel exactly like Katherine Hepburn, being carried from the pool house after her drunken swim with Jimmy Stewart in "Philadelphia Story." Now that we're all on-task with the baby-plan budget, I'm figuring there will be no more

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In Which the People Walk in a Little More Darkness than They Did Last Year These days I am really missing Nat's would-have-been surrogate great grandmother, Marge. In our circle, Marge was sort of the resident spiritual intercessory for better or for worse. When my father would plan weekend canoe trips, missing her Sunday School classes, she would pray for rain. She quit doing that after my

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For the past week or two my partner and I have been pestering each other to call the adoption agency. We have heard people claim to have annoyed the heck out of the adoption agency while waiting for a referral, but neither of us can figure out how to become one of those people. We vaguely fear that maybe the squeaky wheel gets the grease and the agency workers are looking at our profile,

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I really loathe December. I can't stand cold weather. I am horrified by the capitalist feeding-frenzy thinly disguised as "holiday spirit." I am offended by the absolute disregard for the separation of church and state that is paraded in the public square from the end of October to the end of January, with extra blazing neon glory in December. I am disgusted by what becomes of my particular

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Thanks for watching my back, ya'll. Now I'm just waiting for the google searches for "christ-hating farmers" to start rolling in!

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Go to an Ivy League divinity school. Learn Greek and Hebrew. Take biblical studies classes with the people who translated and wrote the footnotes to the Oxford Annotated New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Read the entire Bible two or three times. Then get back to me. In the meantime, if you'd like to hear more about what I know and think about these things, my students pay tuition of

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the part i can tell you about During one of the darkest, most difficult periods of my life--you guessed it, when I was first coming out, but still very much legally and emotionally caught up in a heterosexual lifestyle--I found myself wandering around in a fog, most days. The fog was composed of worry, fear, anxiety, grief, apprehension, guilt, sorrow, heartbreak and a feeling of general

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Okay, thanks for the encouragement with the whole writer's block thing. Any day now, I'm just gonna bubble over with a great story for ya'll. It won't be my coming out story (as someone requested) however, so don't get too excited. That story is copyrighted by about four people and I'm only one of them, and I do believe the others are far less histrionic than myself and would prefer to remain

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I have been getting google hits here and there for the names of people on the list of lgbt deaths, posted below. As a I peruse the other hits on these searches, I am learning a little bit about them as people. I hadn't predicted that. It's sad. If you found me searching for your friend, I'm so sorry for your loss.

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In the wake of CBS and NBC refusing to air the United Church of Christ's television ad welcoming all people--notably queers--to their congregations I thought we could play a little alternative media "telephone" and spread the word of welcome ourselves. Please post a faith tradition in the comments that accepts queers as full and celebrated members, AS THEY ARE. That is, please don't post

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So I have a pretty bad case of writer's block. Ideas, questions, inspiration anyone?

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Our practice baby, Amaya, has hit that perfect age--pre-walking, post-personality--of about nine months (ish). She was over for a fleeting two hours on Saturday afternoon/evening. She played boisterously with my partner who crawled around the floor with her, then she slept in my arms in one of our new rockers for thirty minutes before waking up, ready to enjoy something Gerber likes to call "

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And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs-- Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. Gerard Manley Hopkins As promised. Here's the whole poem. Hopkins is one of my all-time favorite poets. I have quite a few, but I'd put him in the top five. Since most of his surviving poetry is

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Just one. If you watched the 20/20 program last night and read GLAAD's viewer's guide on the issue, here is just one question I'd ask you to consider and to ask others to consider: Who is served and how, by the re-writing of this story at this moment in time?

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Okay, I'm thankful for lots of things, yadda yadda... namely, at the moment I'm thankful that even if the mainstream U.S. media have become the lap dogs of the ruling elite, there is still the possibility of dissent and the spread of real knowledge via alternative channels (like free blogging services). So in the spirit of gratitude for that, could you all please run over to this HRC alert page

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Just came across this in a search for a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, which I will share with you good people tomorrow. I am thankful for these folks. My Baptist family will be happy to hear of them, too, so if you are one of them, cruise on over.

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This week I've been working with my partner to get our financial house in order while we are in this pre-baby state of inspiration. And it seems that while, like every other American, we don't have as much as we'd like (and never would, given the addictive nature of capitalism), we have what we need. And that is a lot to have in a world where most people don't. In fact, we have an awful lot of

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I was planning to put one thing here I'm thankful for, every day this week. But I skipped yesterday, so here's two: I am thankful that my partner is willing to take whole days off just to hang out and read (non-work-related) books and watch HBO on demand (we're working up a "Deadwood" addiction) and shop for lightbulbs and flatware drawer organizers and eat really awful food at a strip

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A friend sent me a link to this beautiful purple map of the U.S. It's a lovely visual illustration of the point below. Check it out.

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I've just about had it up to the proverbial "here" with all the red/blue blah blah blah. How many states are really red or blue? I'll tell you: none. Every single state is purple with some yellow, green and orange thrown in for good measure. One percentage in the direction of Bush doesn't make an entire state red. And I for one and am living in a red county of a blue state and things don't

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Okay folks, it's been a month now. Where's our baby??????????? Not even a teensy nibble. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. sigh...

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witchtrivets has an itchy update on the shotgun wedding from hell. ************************************ Anybody out there ever try iblog? Here's what I want to do: set up my own blog on my own domain, and I gather I can do that with iblog. Any reviews?

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How cool would it be if W.E.B. Dubois became Nat's transitional object? We picked up Dubois and Che Guevara at Antigone Books in Tucson. Eventually, I plan to change all my book links to Antigone. They will send anything in print anywhere, and they are a fabulous bookstore. Always support your local, independent bookstore. And if you don't have a local one, support your online independent

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Adrienne Rich warns us: "Everything we write will be used against us or against those we love. These are the terms, take them or leave them." As a writer, a teacher of writing, and a reader, I have found this to be very helpful to keep in mind. When it happens, I am not as shocked. It puts everything in perspective, and it is so true. Rich is not the only one who teaches this. Yesterday, I

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Please go give those parenthetical virtual hugs to witchtrivets as she is having about the worst case of "queer asked to a straight wedding" anyone could ever dream up. Her coworker, who doesn't believe in gay marriage and whose boyfriend is a homophobe has asked her to witness a last-minute marriage of convenience. The boyfriend has been argued into "allowing" a lesbian presence at the

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We are at last home from Arizona, which we left, grudgingly, at 75 degrees and sunny to return, grudingly to the lone prairie at 40 degrees, grey and windy... It was a great chance to escape reality while climbing in canyons with my (oldest) best friend, her husband and their dogs, lounging in the edenic back garden of our B&B and sipping afternoon tea while swatting away the ruby throated

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Heh! I just found the comments below. I feel SOOO arrived as a blogger now that I've been over-the-top mean-spiritedly trolled. I didn't read that link whatever it was called. What did it say anyway? More when I've returned home next week to reliable internet service. Big, slobbery kisses to you wonderful people and especially to the Oregonian bearing twins who sent the super nice email.

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"When you're down on your knees with nothing left to sell try digging a little deeper in the well" This song my friend gave me by the Blind Boys of Alabama has been running through my head since about 4 am Wednesday morning. Just now, I'm basking in the purifying desert sun of Tucson, and I have been thinking about how my tendency to despair has never really gotten me anywhere and in spite of

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I've said this before, but now, really, if you wanna join up, please, please please read this book. Then pass it on to all your friends. I'm also adding the Baptist Joint Committee to the links. They fight for separation of Church and State. Yeah, they're Baptists. Separation of Church and State made it into our constitution because Baptists insisted. REAL Baptists care more about that than

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To those of you who declared open war on my family yesterday by banning us from receiving any legal protections from marriage to all-but-meaningless domestic partnership, I have only this to say: we declare war back. I don't care who you are or why you think it's any of your business whether my child has married parents or not. I know you don't give a flip about families at all (including your

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Look ma! No hanging chads! (Oh yeah, I double checked) Mama Shannon and Uncle Sasha model their ballot stubs, because our polling place ran out of "I Voted" stickers! Mom Cole, having voted early and earned her sofa time, watches the returns:

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My fellow bloggers, don't you love to see the mainstream media trying to play catch-up with us? Gramsci theorized this movement the hegemony makes when it tries to co-opt new forms of resistance by making little places for them within the power structure. It's like the powers that be set up little steam valves within the status quo so people's dissent will be aired in the least disruptive way

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If you live within an hour of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and need a ride to the polls tomorrow, email me. I have room for four passengers in my car. I'm going to get my own voting out of the way in the morning, then I'll be free all day. I will take you where you need to go, and if needed, entertain your kids while you stand in line. Whatever it takes. Bush, Kerry, you don't even have to tell

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Here at Waiting for Nat, we try to avoid quoting scripture, but in these last few days before the election, we are willing to do whatever it takes. It's Bible study time folks. If that's not your bag, move along with our blessing. "Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is

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It's times like these that I am reminded that I am not a stressed-out person due to my circumstances. I'm just a stressed-out person and I need to work on that. Remember when I promised you I was going to do yoga? Yeah, that lasted about five minutes. And I did like it, but the motivation to, oh, get up out of my chair just isn't strong enough. I wish I was one of those people addicted to

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Quick note to say, the doctor is in. More when I get home tomorrow. Just didn't want you to all die of suspense.

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Off I go to defend my dissertation, folks. Please think of me on Friday at 9am EST, if you will. I would really like the student part of my life to close, preferably in a flash of glorious triumph, but a fizzle of mediocre banality would do in a pinch. I have new fish to fry and am ready to get to it. I called the agency to leave a forwarding phone number as we have managed to remain cell

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Nat's future Uncle Sasha and I stumbled across Any Soldier last night. The program provides mailing addresses and information for sending a care package to the troops in Iraq. We went to the "where to send" page and scanned for women's names. There are lots, most between 18 and 25. We were somewhat shocked to discover that every one of the women we looked at said they needed tampons. They

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Thank you JJ, Vanessa, Lisa and Abby!

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I just took the geekiest "you are a..." quiz, ever. It turns out, after two pages of personality questions, I am .cgi. I don't know what that means. Is it good? Is it bad?

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Look people, I know Kerry is no crusader for glbt rights. I also know for a God's-honest-truth fact that he is not the most liberal senator. (The National Journal is totally full of crap about that. I used to work for their only real competitor in the congressional reporting game and Kerry would probably come up 5th or so by our reckoning: it's pretty subjective, obviously.) But folks, this is

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Kerry, Schmerry-- Wook at the widdle toes!!!! This is the six month portrait of our practice baby and star of our refrigerator, Amaya. Word has it, her mommy would dearly love to borrow our vacuum cleaner. I am prepared to make her an offer she can't refuse. One baby. One vacuum cleaner. It's that simple.

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After the debate last night, I tried to wrap my head around the possibility that Nat will enter a world in which GW Bush is still acting as president of the United States. I say acting, because he was not elected in the first place. I hear folks trying to explain the differences between Kerry and Bush and in spite of Kerry's wiser approach to foreign policy and his fairer approach to domestic

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Every time the phone rings, my partner declares "Maybe that's a baby!" Perhaps our paperwork has zoomed its way to the relevant agencies by now, but it's doubtful, as it was only sent, Friday. Also, we decided that on the list of acceptable, versus unacceptable infant health issues, we needed (for a number of personal reasons) to put alcohol exposure in the unacceptable column. We've been told

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They won't last more than two weeks (for non-subscribers) but while they're up, I had to share two stories from the Washington Post. The first is part 3 and part 4 of a series on glbt teens in the United States. (Parts 1 and 2 featured a white boy in Oklahoma and the links are gone now. Parts 3 and 4 feature a Black girl in Newark, New Jersey who reminds me of some of the students I used to

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This morning my partner woke at her usual inhuman hour (six? seven?) and started a last-minute cleaning frenzy to prepare for the much anticipated Final Walk-Through. David was here bright and early, too, installing a last-minute smoke detector and generally folding up ladders and putting away hammers and whatnot. I was in bed. Then, I was in bed, having tea. Then, I was in bed, wishing I had

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Whoa! Now I am feeling chagrined. Pamelia, in a comment below laid quite the undeserved compliment on us, here at Waiting for Nat, and I feel the immediate need to bump something hopeful to the top of the page. So, here are the top ten things for which I am grateful today: 10. My partner, as she does almost every morning, brought me tea in bed. 9. Our cats, like they do almost ever night,

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Okay, so Nancy says that if she didn't know me, she would think I made up the story about Final Solution B&B, below. So, for those of you who don't know me, let me assure you that not only is it true, but I left out many horrific parts in my spluttering inability to wrap my head around the thing myself. For example I didn't even mention "Thank god for Nixon! He really cleaned up Washington!"

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In a mere two days we have our final home inspection. For the past month, I have been filling trash bags with donations for the Salvation Army and making shelf/drawer/closet space for Nat. But supposedly the big things to fret about are baby room size, smoke detector placement, fire extinguisher accessibility, baby safety lock installation, water temperature maximums and the secure locking away

LilySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812905445813679050noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218461.post-1096855403739983782004-10-03T20:15:00.000-05:002004-10-03T22:03:55.490-05:00

So this weekend, we went to Chicago for a black tie fundraiser for an LGBT organization. We needed an excuse to dress up, since we haven't done that since our wedding and we both had new, spiffy, as-yet-unworn clothes to try out. So off we went to a B&B in Old Town which my partner found on a "gay-friendly" (but in this case, not gay-owned) hotel website. As soon as we checked in, I noticed

LilySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812905445813679050noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218461.post-1096430203981386272004-09-28T22:31:00.000-05:002004-09-29T01:00:42.233-05:00

New to the blogroll: What She Said, a compendium of political women's blogs...or women's political blogs. You know, smart chicks thinking publicly. Check it out, it's a great resource! *************** Okay, so the new job: I'm now an esteemed online writing tutor for the stellar wage of 11 big ones per hour! This is easy money, since reading and commenting on first year college composition

LilySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812905445813679050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218461.post-1096350138295583772004-09-28T01:40:00.000-05:002004-09-28T00:42:18.296-05:00

Slow to update, these days, because not only am I teaching this semester, but I have another new job. It's a silly job, but it is turning my internet hours into cash, so I'm less available to blog. However, I will post an update soon, and fill you all in on the details. Don't touch that dial!

LilySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812905445813679050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218461.post-1095918242473068072004-09-22T23:52:00.000-05:002004-09-23T00:53:13.973-05:00

Number Three below, seems to have raised a hackle here and there. (What's a hackle anyway? I should know that.) By means of clarification, I give you a personal resume: My parents raised me as a Southern Baptist. Not so many non-Baptists know this, but before the eighties, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was still a pretty traditionally Baptist organization, which translates: highly

LilySeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812905445813679050noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6218461.post-1095829668636158212004-09-21T23:57:00.000-05:002004-09-22T00:07:48.636-05:00

Here are some things I may or may not return to in more depth after I am not bone-tired anymore. I don't know when that will be. I have been bone-tired for over a week. 1. We have decided to plan to elope in Canada for legal purposes; maybe next June, near our anniversary. 2. We have decided that we are willing to wait for a baby with no/virtually no in-utero alcohol exposure. Most drugs

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