Please consider downloading this e-book and sharing it. It was released in early March by  IRIN, the humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. I discovered it today and it is profound. GLOBAL: Shame of War: a new book on sexual violence

…so little time. I am preparing for my FIRST computer-free vacation with my beloved since July 2004. I have promised to leave said laptop at home (and as a freelance writer this is very hard to do!). We are even leaving our little rescue dog home for the first time

You could be on the wrong end of this story someday if you and l’il Mar have a l’il tiff that results in, er…irreconcilable differences. Having a baby “together” in Virginia?? What were you thinking ?!?!? I mean, this poor non-bio mom is screwed and they started out in Vermont,

F these people – when will it end? http://www.cnn.com/2… If it made it to sanitized CNN, it really must be bad.

…into what has happened in many states, and what can and will happen in the newest states considering and likely passing constitutional amendments allowing discrimination and hate against a single group of people: I was born and raised in Indiana, and even though I left at age 21, all of

Please note that this post, and its opinions, are wholly those of the author of this post, and were not written at the request of, nor as the result of any interview with, either of the bloggers about which it was written  ee I don’t even need to delve into

I heart this woman: http://365gay.com/Ne… I also hope she has got a bodyguard with her at all times whilst she is in Tanzania.

From ee, age 6 Aren’t kids cool?

Here is one of the reasons I now do not mind that I pay state income taxes (when I moved from FL to NY): http://365gay.com/Ne…

I have to wonder what goes on in the minds of people. As I see the legislature of the state in which I was born continue to steamroll discrimination into the constitution, I wonder what is it about two people who, simply, love differently, that incites so much hate. One