posted by Mel
If you, like Vanessa and me, missed Tina Fey’s performance on last weekend’s SNL, check out this site for some great clips: http://www.afterellen.com/blog/scribegrrrl/tina-fey-on-SNL
including her awesome Weekend Update all about Hillary Clinton. Too bad the Writer’s Strike didn’t end a couple of weeks earlier. A few more endorsements like this one might save Hil’s campaign. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The way the world works’
February 25, 2008
The capital of Vermont is Montpelier
January 14, 2008
Who’s the Daddy?
posted by Mel
There are a lot of interesting discussions in the fertility/lesbian mom blogosphere around parenting roles, specifically whether a non-bio/non-birth mom equates to or should equate to a dad and how to navigate those dangerous waters. After all, most women are never going to see themselves as fathers, nor do they want to be called [...]
December 23, 2007
Juno– oh yes we did.
posted by Mel
So Vanessa and I went to see Juno. A 16-year-old girl gets pregnant during a one night stand with her best friend, considers abortion, and then opts for a closed adoption instead to the world’s richest, most beautiful straight couple. What could go wrong with us seeing a movie like that? I knew [...]
September 26, 2007
Mom’s Life Closed
Posted by v.
Because Mom wasn’t a religious person, I wanted to keep her funeral services relatively secular. I conducted a simple “service” at the graveside yesterday where I read the following Emily Dickinson poem:
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that [...]
September 21, 2007
The Day After
posted by Mel
First, I need to say that we really appreciate the thoughts and prayers of everyone who has commented, e-mailed, or called. We have a wonderful support network, which we know we will need very much in the months to come. Thank you all.
Today was rough, but we are muddling through it. We have to. [...]
August 27, 2007
Freak out– w/update
OK. Freak out, which I normally would not post to the blog, but I’m home from work right now and Vanessa is traveling and unreachable, so there is no one to have the freak out with. Apologize in the advance for the liberal use of ALL CAPS.
Just got off the phone with our fertility clinic’s financial [...]
July 9, 2007
The Update
posted by Melody
Grandpa passed away on Sunday morning. I did not get back in time to see him again, but I still feel good about the way I left things with him. I saw him on the last day he spoke. I told him about our upcoming trip, and he was able to speak enough [...]
July 3, 2007
Doubled!
Got the property tax bill yesterday and was surprised to see that it has more than doubled. When I looked at the assessment data (see previous post), I didn’t realize that our property had been “trended” up by an additional $32,800, almost 70% of the previous assessed value. The whole point with trending is that [...]
