Femme Fairy Godmother

Once a week I go take my dad out to eat and to do any errands he might have to do. Today, he wanted to go to Best Buy to show me the computers he recently bought my sister and her family. While we were there, we found out that Best Buy is doing their [...]

It has been pointed out to me that I have not been writing real posts lately. According to VB(nf)GF, recipes do not count. If they were *her* favorite cookies, she’d probably complain less, but whatev. The thing is, there are so many things that I want to talk about and they are all related and [...]

I have, almost without noticing, acquired a girlfriend. Yes, you read that correctly. I have a girlfriend. To be honest with you, I’m not sure how it happened. I started hanging out with someone a while ago but I certainly didn’t expect to end up with a girlfriend. In fact, I told more than one [...]

I’m all y’all’s FemmeFairyGodmother, of course, but I also have godchildren in real life. My sister and her husband asked me to be the godmother to their two children – who are now 12 and 15. I am also the person who is named in their will to care for the rugrats should something happen [...]

I wish I had a camera but even if I did, I couldn’t capture this day for you. About 6 times a year, we get a day like this: sunny, bright, clear, crisp and cold. I have the heat turned off, a window open so I can smell the outdoors, a comforter, hot chocolate and [...]

I told this story for the very first time last year, at a board meeting. I wanted our board of directors to understand that part of what they could do to help with fundraising was tell their stories – why did they support CARES. I asked two other staff members to talk about nonprofits they [...]

I used to write a blog called Dichotomous Nature. That actually describes me well. An example? This is my favorite poem ever. It’s by Rumi. The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. [...]

Sometimes, I am a Complete Pushover. Okay, stop laughing! It’s true. I’ll give you that it doesn’t happen often but sometimes it does. Would you like an example? The first time I went to Greektown in Detroit, I went to a great Greek restaurant (I know, duh.) Pegasus is still my favorite Greek restaurant and [...]

I never actually *told* my mom I was a lesbian. She told me. Here’s how it went: [I was getting ready to move in w/ my first girlfriend and all that crew, including Favorite Aunt. I was packing up my bathroom stuff and mom was sitting on the edge of the tub talking to me.] [...]

Two Moms with a Plan had this great story about coming out. At the end, she asks “What is your coming out to yourself story?” I had a few comings out. When I was 13, my mom had a friend who was a fairly butch lesbian. Sharon. Fairly? Okay, dude, I wouldn’t have known Sharon [...]