GFHC Open Thread: Why they do it, why I do it
As promised (or threatened!) some weeks ago, here's a look at what's behind the Mormon obsession with genealogy. After that, I'll append a few words about my own philosophy as a family history geek....
View ArticleThe Mother of Civil Rights
I wrote this for Street Prophets in February, 2010 to mark Black History Month. It is reproduced here with only minor formatting changes. ~SLKA woman of color encounters — and fights — discrimination...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: "Loved long since, and lost awhile"
Tomorrow is my birthday. I mention the fact not because I seek attention — or sympathy (well, not exactly!) — but for another reason: tomorrow I'll be 57, and that has led me to reflect, for the...
View ArticleMonday Night at the Theater: Sacred and Profane
This is a piece I wrote for another blog about a year ago. ~SLKJerry Springer: The Opera had its premiere at London's National Theatre in April 2003. Jerry Springer: The Opera
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: Caroline
This, my first contribution for Women's (Family) History Month, is a brief introduction to my third-great-grandmother, Caroline Wright Pitt, an ordinary woman who passed through some extraordinary...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: Mansions
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meetup for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may...
View ArticleMonday Night at the Theater: Friendship "Top Ten"
This post highlights various flavors of friendship — new, old; sarcastic, sincere; romantic, platonic; life-changing, deadly. Most of these "Top Ten" selections are duets, as befits the subject; most...
View ArticleGFHC Special (Women's Family History Month): Emmeline
This is a repost of something I wrote for Women's History Month a couple of years ago at Street Prophets. Since then I have learned that Emmeline is in my family tree. Not a blood relative (we are...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: Gifts
And let her loves, when she is dead, Write this above her bones: "No more she lives to give us bread Who asked her only stones." - Dorothy Parker, "For a Sad Lady" Have you ever felt like the lady in...
View ArticleMonday Night at the Theater: 'On the Steps of the Palace'
Because the theaters are dark on Monday nights. "Inspired by Bruno Bettelheim's 1976 book, The Uses of Enchantment," Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods... ...intertwines the plots of several...
View ArticleMonday Night at the Theater: "It's a new world. Love."
Everyone has probably heard of Fiddler on the Roof, the Broadway musical (and movie) based on the Tevye stories of Sholem Aleichem.Fiddler opened on Broadway on September 22, 1964. An immediate hit,...
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: Getting Poetic
This is a different kind of post for me, a mostly silly collection of genealogy-related poems I've picked up here and there over time. Most of them aren't very good (and some are really bad,...
View ArticleMonday Night at the Theater: "The full-length velvet glove hides the fist"
I wrote this on Bastille Day a couple of years ago for another blog, and am just lazy enough to post it here since it hasn't been seen here, I figured why not? It's a few days after the holiday, but...
View ArticleThe White House and AIDS
President Obama's White House has released a video to mark the 2012 International AIDS Conference. Some activists are carping that the president won't be appearing personally at the conference, and...
View ArticleMonday Night at the Theater: 'Candide' at Lincoln Center
Candide has one of the more interesting histories among Broadway musicals. Its first run in 1956 was not a resounding success, despite the collaboration of some amazing talents, including (in addition...
View ArticleGFHC: Charles Price, surveyed
Until lately I knew almost nothing about Charles Price, my grandmother's great-grandfather, beyond his name and the relevant dates of birth and death. For reasons any family historian will recognize,...
View ArticleShe speaks for me.
This drag queen speaks for me. This fabulous, fierce, funny, articulate Irish drag queen speaks for me.All my gay life I've been looking for just the right words to express the reality I've lived (and...
View ArticleHillary Gets Handsome Support
I just published this as a test over on the beta site, then figured it was worth sharing here. By the way, the test went without a hitch. :-)From Towleroad: Hunky string quartet Well-Strung have...
View ArticleMeanwhile, this happened last night
ESPN: SONOMA, Calif. -- Baseball history was made in Northern California wine country Thursday night when the sport's first active professional player to come out as gay pitched a shutout before an...
View ArticleMonday Night at the Theater: 'The Gondoliers' in concert
One of the best things about YouTube for classical music lovers is the number of complete BBC Proms concerts available for viewing. Watching live performances is always better than merely listening,...
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