To follow up on Daniel’s post about Lady. It is we great sadness that we had to ended her life due to a serious battle with liver cancer. We will miss her.
Our dog Lady has been weak lately. We’re working with the vet to try to figure out what’s wrong with her and help her.
When I heard this on the radio in the car this afternoon, I could not help but beam with joy. I didn’t mean to have such an emotional reaction to the news; it just bubbled up from within. Regardless of whether or not the inevitable appeal against this ruling is upheld in the next hearing (which I don’t think it will be), this is a great step forward for equal rights.
Andy & I were legally married in California the first Saturday same-sex marriages were performed: June 21, 2008. Our marriage was upheld even after Prop 8. Still, it is meaningless where we live in Arizona. I have hope that this new ruling will set a precedent for similar rulings in other states.
I think the gay marriage argument is simple: opposite-sex couples have nothing to lose by same-sex marriage while same-sex couple have much to gain. The idea that “marriage is between a man and a woman” is Biblical at best and arrogant at worst. There is simply no reason a man and a man or a woman and a woman shouldn’t be allowed to marry if they want to. Separation of church and state; equal rights for all. That’s the American way.
Tagged civil liberties, constitutionality, equal rights, gay, marriage, Prop 8, same-sex
My grandmother, Helene Kupferman Greene, died in 1999, and my grandfather, Ernest Charles Greene, died in 2004. I inherited these photos of theirs six years ago, and it took me this long to scan them. Now that I’ve scanned them, I can’t wait to share them! This photos–especially when viewed larger in these high-resolution scans–show amazing detail, history, personality, and style. I would be thrilled if the descendants–children, grandchildren, or even great-grandchildren, see their mothers, grandmothers, or great-grandmothers in these photos. If I love them, I’m sure these ladies’ progeny will love them even more. If by some chance you recognize one of the young women in these photos, please let me know!
Well, I did it! And it was really pretty easy. Yesterday, I imported the WordPress.org blog smithersgreene.net into WordPress.com. Today, I added the domain smithersgreene.net to this blog so that I can manage the content in WordPress.com instead of in WordPress.org. I find this blogging platform more carefree and easier to manage. So, yay! It worked. And it costs less than $10 a year to host this blog here are WordPress.com.
Take a look around! You might like what you see. 
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Tagged blog, blogging, domain, family, hosting, platform, smithersgreene.net, technology, WordPress, wordpress.com
I used one of my smaller blogs as a test run for importing a WordPress.org blog into WordPress.com. It was easy! Now to see how easy or difficult it is to add a domain to a WordPress.com blog. I’m hoping it’s just as easy and we can point our domain, smithersgreene.net, over here so I can manage it with WordPress.com. Seems much easier and better suited to my (our) needs than WordPress.org blog, which requires me to maintain two different installations of WordPress software that I have to update separately. (And even if, as of this month, I can maintain two blogs in one installation with WordPress 3.x, it’s still more complicated than with WordPress.com.)
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Now that we got the Wii Fit Plus that allows you to create Miis for your pets and weigh them (and track changes), I set up Buxley and Lady. Now we have our whole family represented in Miis. When I saw the screen this morning, it reminded me of those people who have the cutout sticky people on the rear windows of their vehicles. Those people always have straight families: Mother, Father, Daughter, Son, with maybe some cats and dogs. I’ve always thought it would be funny to have stickers of two men and two dogs on the back of my car. Well, this is the closest I’ve come to that yet: my family in Wii Miis.
And yes, I did mean “Our Wii Family” to be a pun of “Our Wee Family.”
Oh, and by the way, Lady’s already lost 2.5 pounds in the past month since we’ve been feeding her less. Yay, Lady!
Um, do I need to say that Wii Fit Plus is a registered trademark of Nintendo, Inc.? =)
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Tagged alternative, Andy, family, funny, game, gay, home, Mii, Nintendo, pet, screen, television, Wii, Wii Fit Plus
Lady says, "Hats are not the fashion for canines such as me; nevertheless, noblesse oblige!"
Sir Buxley Smithers-Greene also deigned to pose in a holiday costume.
A noble hound indeed!
This is dedicated to a colleague’s son who died suddenly last week at the age of 4. I attended his funeral at a Mormon church yesterday. The first order of service was singing a hymn called “Families Can Be Together Forever” whose lyrics resonated with me, a gay Jewish man:
“I have a family here on earth.
They are so good to me.
I want to share my life with them
Through all eternity.
Families can be together forever
Though Heavenly Father’s plan.
I always want to be with my own family
And the Lord has shown me how I can.”
(Words: Ruth Muir Gardner, Music: Vanja Y. Watkins)
It is interesting that I heard this song the day after watching the movie Juno and being struck by a line spoken by Ellen Page’s character: Continue reading
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