These short video clips of my granddaughter, Ana, are dark and a bit fuzzy because they were recorded with a cell phone, but they're a...

Ideologically, there are many, many reasons my younger sister and I don't get along. There's her hatred of gay people ... and we jus...

Yes, Idaho's Senator Larry Craig apparently solicited sex from another man, who just happened to be a police officer, in a public restr...

According to some Long Island homophobe, my husband, Ed, and I are gay. That doesn't bother us; it's not an insult to us. But having...

Yesterday, my family and I had the boat outing that almost wasn't. Ironically, our boat's name is At Last . All we wanted to do was ...

My only nephew, 19 and newly married (way too young, I think), is in the Marine Corps Reserve . Because of Bush, rubber-stamp Republicans, a...

In our previous story , I promised you one more camping adventure tale. Here is the final one: It was our last full day in Elmore State Park...

In our last story , I promised you two more camping adventure tales. Here is the second one: On our next-to-last day of our stay in Elmore S...

Before I post Vermont Tale the Second , I'll share these photos from our camping vacation in Elmore State Park in northeastern Vermont....

In our last episode , I promised you some camping adventure tales. Here is the first in a series of three: One basic rule of camping is to k...

I'm back from a terrific camping vacation in northeastern Vermont. I have plenty of photos to share and exciting adventure tales to tell...

You won't be hearing anything from me—unless Bush and Cheney are impeached in the next 2 days—for a little more than a week. I'm pre...

The headline on the Associated Press story about George W. Bush's annual physical reads: Bush pronounced ‘fit for duty’ after physical ...

For those who doubt that there's such a thing as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD, formerly called ADD), two studies show...

One of the e-mail lists I subscribe to has been discussing letting children play at parks by themselves. One woman wrote: ... but do you thi...

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Happy birthday to me! I'm 48 now. My present will be getting to babysit my almost-3-month-old granddaughter, Ana, tonight for the first ...

As a resident of New York State, I'm proud that New York City hospitals are dumping the infant formula samples from the gift bags they g...

Testimony everywhere, all the time, yet no one's getting canned or charged with crimes. But at least someone in the Bush administration ...

I'll turn 48 on Monday. That's 2 years younger than the age at which my father died. I want to live way past 50, so I've begun d...