Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

I do hope you are all still reading EJ’s blog. He’s doing a stellar and responsible job covering the story of Zach, the 16 year-old boy whose parents have sent him to Love in Action, a place where they are trying to take the gay out of him. Seriously, EJ has every other media source beat on this story. Blogs so often do a better job than the local or national media, because bloggers are on the ground. They are involved. We don’t go looking for stories (at least most of us don’t). The stories come to us, and we’re only writing about them when we’re passionate about them.

Anyway, EJ’s blog, Cherry Blossom Special. Go now. 

Al told me about this dancer, and then I saw this one on Boing Boing. Hilarious!

OK. It rains ALL DAY on your wedding day, and the whole thing is supposed to be outside. You don’t even flinch. You stand in the rain in your beautiful wedding dress, unconcerned about the mud getting on the hem. The decorations you spent all day putting up are wet, and all the chairs remain propped up around the tables where the guests were going to eat dinner. You giggle as guests bat water off of the top of a canopy as water splashes out into the yard creating more mud. It’s your wedding day, and you are effortlessly happy.

You are Tatyana, and you are the coolest bride EVER!

What a fun time!

La Mia Famiglia

I Miei Tre Padri

In the beginning, there was Monkey:

and it was good.

This past Sunday, I dropped my laundry off at Do-Duds. When I went to bed on Sunday night, I realized that Monkey was not in my bed. Hmmm.

On Monday morning, I called Do-Duds and found that Monkey had in fact, stowed away in a sheet and had taken a trip to Do-Duds.

Later that day, it was clear that not only had he gone along for the ride to the laundromat, he’d also taken a spin in the washer, and then in the dryer. He’s very clean, but a little misshapen. I hope he had a nice time.

The reunion:

Welcome home, Monkey!