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Leasing vs. Buying: The Car Debate Continues
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." -- Mahatma Gandhi Over the past few weeks, the alarm on my Volvo sounded three times without any apparent reason. I…
Do second-parents have legal rights? Let’s ask Heather Poe
"The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other." -- from Heather has Two Mommies Queers around the nation heard the breaking…
Wedding & Commitment Rings for Gays & Lesbians
"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery We're still not pregnant but throughout our baby-making attempts…
Secret Lives of Breadwinner Wives
This was the title of a recent article by MP Dunleavy, a writer over at MSN. Her article was about heterosexual couples in which the wife earns more than the…
Money as a Second Language
"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing." -- Rollo May Does anyone remember The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock? Back in the late eighties,…
Taking the Plunge
I wrote a few weeks ago in "Separate But Equal" that it's harder, I think, for gay couples to know when and how to merge their lives (especially finances) without…
Legally Blonde and Legally Separated
"The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one." - Anatole Broyard I think it's tragic that Reese Witherspoon and Ryan…
The Cost of Souvenirs
"Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not" - Susan Spano Last weekend, Jeanine and I cleaned the garage. We still can't get two cars in the two-car garage, but it's…
Homemade Love Notes
"Who, being loved, is poor?" -- Oscar Wilde Today is my anniversary with Jeanine. I've marked time over the years by making her homemade love notes (examples shown here). They…
Reverse-Engineer Your Life
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." -- Abraham Maslow Nate Nickerson, the former managing editor of FastCompany, wrote…