It was mile 43 of a 56-mile ride and I was very slowly climbing up a hill on a sunny 90-degree Southern California day. Next to me was Megan Olson, a team captain for the Leukemia and Lymphoma's (LLS) "Team in Training" program. She was prodding, cajoling and encouraging me...
(0) Comments | Posted May 1, 2012 | 1:26 PM
From an apartment in Biloxi, Miss., I watched on TV as Los Angeles burned, rioted and turned itself inside out on April 29, 1992.
Days before, I had stepped off a plane from Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico where I had been stationed.
I was in...
(4) Comments | Posted March 20, 2012 | 7:35 AM
Cholo? Your last name is Cholo?
Even in Disneyland's Critter Country, I can't escape from my name. The lady at the Hungry Bear restaurant was holding my credit card in her hand and looking at me quizzically. She admitted she had never come across a real Cholo in all...
(5) Comments | Posted February 9, 2012 | 10:06 AM
I follow the news constantly so when I heard about a missing person's case involving a woman in Utah just over two years ago, it caught my attention. Her husband claimed he had taken their two very young sons for a midnight camping trip. In a blizzard. To the middle...
(2) Comments | Posted January 12, 2012 | 1:24 PM
My 19-year-old daughter stepped onto an plane today and left the California sunshine for a rural town in Tennessee to live with her father's family.
About three years ago, after 16 years of me raising her and against my will, she moved in with her father who lives about...
(56) Comments | Posted November 21, 2011 | 9:53 AM
The anti-equality folks behind the Stop SB 48 campaign suffered a recent disappointment a few weeks ago. Their ballot referendum to repeal SB 48 -- the FAIR (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful) Education Law -- failed to qualify because they did not gather enough signatures.
But on Thursday, Nov....
(4) Comments | Posted October 31, 2011 | 6:37 PM
I'm writing this post on a Saturday afternoon as I sit under a dryer in a hair salon.
If you've spent as much time as I have in a salon, you know it can be a comforting and validating place. You walk in looking like a hausfrau, you emerge...
(5) Comments | Posted October 5, 2011 | 10:45 AM
A few weeks ago, I organized a flash mob to Madonna's "Like a Prayer" to tell Michele Bachmann and hubby Marcus that you actually can't "pray the gay away." The YouTube video is now up to over 91,000 views, and it's technically gone viral, at least...
(0) Comments | Posted July 20, 2012 | 12:59 PM