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  • Twin Birthdays

    By on April 3, 2014

    Celebrating my husband’s birthday last week, there were a couple unintentional themes at play. I’d taken him to Puerto Rico for a long weekend, a...

  • The Universe in Us

    By on March 27, 2014

    Carl Sagan, host of the original 1980 Cosmos series, said we are made of star stuff, because our atoms were created billions of years ago...

  • RIP, Fred Phelps

    By on March 20, 2014

    While many people will be celebrating the death of Fred Phelps, whose name is synonymous with irrational hate and vitriol, I think that today the...

  • Washington as the Globe’s Gay Capital

    By on March 20, 2014

    Earlier this month, I shared a post on my Facebook wall regarding Dmitry Kiselyov. The post was critical of the anti-Western, anti-LGBT Kiselyov, taking what...

  • The Right To Be Wrong

    By on March 13, 2014

    I have been fighting the Catholic Church since I first argued with a nun at St. Catherine Labouré Elementary School in 1962. I don't recall...

  • A Wish for Ukraine

    By on March 13, 2014

    The Crimean Peninsula is an autonomous republic within Ukraine, and the home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet, in Sevastopol, in accordance with a bilateral...

  • Finding Hope in Uganda

    By on March 6, 2014

    Not long ago, things were calm and somber in Uganda. But bigoted evangelical Christians from the U.S. seeking to promote a homophobic agenda led to...

  • Twice as Good

    By on February 27, 2014

    Feb. 5 would have been Trayvon Martin's 19th birthday. Jordan Davis would have turned 19 on Feb. 16. There are too many other cases like...

  • Taking the Cake

    By on February 25, 2014

    Back in early 2007 I found myself sitting in the fondant-bedecked office of a professional wedding-cake baker in search of the perfect (yet still affordable)...

  • From Feral to Forever

    By on February 20, 2014

    One of the knocks on the door last Halloween was not trick nor treat. It was a representative from the Humane Society holding the downstairs...

  • Mixed Messages

    By on February 20, 2014

    Leave it to Virginia to throw a wrench in my wedding plans. This was to be the year that my husband, Cavin, and I took...

  • War Dispatches

    By on February 13, 2014

    We laugh to avoid screaming. Or maybe we try therapeutic tweeting. There were no new media to distract us in 1989. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau did...

  • Game Changer

    By on February 11, 2014

    Before I jump into writing about football, I have to share a few facts about myself so you can decide exactly how seriously you want...

  • All in the Family

    By on February 6, 2014

    Unsurprisingly, I could be a precocious brat as a child because I spent so much energy not wanting to be a child. I hated being...

  • Masque of the Red Death

    By on January 30, 2014

    Actress Goldie Hawn had no idea what she was wading into last week when she tweeted from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, ''Met...