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so far most of my personal essays are about me complaining about something.

Screen Shot 2015-08-28 at 12.22.10 PMA Good Man Was Hard To Find

“Why are men so stingy with their sperm?” I griped in passing to the guy next to me at the rehearsal dinner before a friend’s wedding. (They say seating arrangements at a wedding are critical, but this, I’m sure, was unprecedented.) Up to this point I’d been bitching about the irony that lesbians who want to bear children are – dang it all – still at the mercy of men’s whims – or at least their vital fluids.

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The New York Times| Eavesdropping on the Seventh Grade ‘Instagram Show’

As a parent, I hate the app, and I too can’t quit it. When my daughter stops following some kid I know, it’s like she has killed off a character on my soap opera

huffpost parentsteen ErikaMy So-Called Free-Range Childhood

 

Slate Magazine: A Lesbian Mother’s Complaint: I Want To Be the Only Mommy on Mother’s Day

My child has two moms. And while Mother’s Day may strike some as an occasion for our family to double our pleasure/double our fun, the second Sunday in May has become the thorn in my bouquet of roses. I don’t particularly feel like sharing the holiday.

imageSF Chronicle: Two Mommies Means Half the Mother’s Day Bliss