Articles Archive for August 2009
Change Your Mind, Rambling »
Back in 1997 when my teenage son began dating the blonde haired, blue-eyed girl next door, my reaction can almost be called hypocritical. After all, hadn’t I spent the years after my divorce specifically dating only Caucasian males?
Well perhaps it was this specificity in my past choices, which led me to believe (as many still do) that just as lesbians and gay men “choose” to be homosexual, so do teenagers “choose” to date outside of their race. I was distraught over my son’s choice because I felt that in choosing …
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Lately there has been a very loud and unhealthy discussion about health insurance in this country. I say unhealthy because the discussion very rarely focuses on the facts and no one walks away from the fight feeling good about it. In my discussion on the subject I would like to remove the political component:
Forget about what side of the aisle the people that you voted for sit - chances are they don’t have any of your interests at heart anyway
Forget about the color of our President and whether or not …
Change Your Mind, Rambling »
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It’s summer, I’m traveling, I have Marching Band camp and I’m launching a new application at work. Finding myself in this blogging topics dead zone I checked Mamapedia to see if there were any questions that struck a chord. I stumbled upon a Mom whose 18 year old son told her that he is gay. I thought to myself ” well there’s a topic with teeth “; why? because I have been there and done that and quite a few years of experience that I can bring to …
