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Miracle Makeover: Be Your Own Cheerleader

After two weeks of post-workday-studying and one particular mind-numbing GRE study session, I have a complete meltdown. After, I lay numbly on the couch. Visions of advanced algebra, quadrilaterals and vocabulary words dance through my head. “I need a hug,” I mumble to no one in particular. It occurs to me that this is what life would be like, if I move forward with getting my doctorate. Working all day and then studying all night. Unable to answer, “What the hell am I even thinking?”, I make myself some eggs and pop in a movie, a documentary about dancers on Broadway.

Out of the Box

Dear Diana,

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Falling in Love With Yourself When You Are Someone Else

Girls are pretty. Come on, who are we kidding? Girls are smoking freaking lose-your-mind hawt, haute, hottt. And as girls who like girls, we are in a tribe apart, a literal different mindset from the heterosexual population.

Miracle Makeover

Mac store rep: Is your hard drive backed up by any chance? (glancing up at me while his fingers frantically type away)
Me: silence.
Me: blank stare.
Me: This isn’t good, is it?

On the drive home, I eye my dead hard drive next to me in the passenger seat. As I try to wrap my head around everything I just lost on my Mac, it occurs to me that apparently you really can dump everything from the past and start over. Just like that.

A Note On My Naked Body

I have never had so much of an issue with my body as I have when it comes to sex. I think at some point G-d decided to have a massive laugh by pairing one of the most pleasurable instances of human existence with one of the most awkward, unnerving and baring requirements. Nudity is scary, it’s fucking terrifying for most people, and when it comes to someone who has the modesty of a Puritan/Talibanese Woman/some chick in the Victorian age who thinks showing ankles is a ‘bit much.’ Well nudity is the equivalent of facing a team of rabid angry wolverines who are carrying newly purchased M-16s.

Miracle Makeover: Self Improvement Through Insight and Action

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Dear Diana,

I have become totally frustrated with how holidays are managed at my job. Shouldn’t there be some “separation of work and family holidays?” I don’t want to be an anti-holiday scrooge, so I came up with some ideas to make the season more rewarding and less stressful for everyone. For example, the tradition in my office includes a potluck the day before Thanksgiving where employees sign up to bring in turkey and pumpkin pie and all the same stuff everyone is preparing and eating the next day. Lame.

Nested Lez: What a Crazy Ride It's Been

Have you ever had one of those days when it seems like you are constantly on the move? You know the ones where you have what seems like a million different things that you need to get done. I'm sure you have. Well, I just had a month of those days.

November was a crazy month for me.

Utah Study: More than 3,800 Same-Sex Couples

On November 24, the Williams Institute released a new report that provides demographic and economic information for the more than 3,800 same-sex couples in Utah.

The report finds 30% of Utah’s same-sex couples are raising an estimated 2,900 children. Roughly 2% of Utah’s adopted children live with a gay or lesbian parent. However, same-sex couples raising children have lower average household incomes than married parents ($57,203 versus $82,383) and less likely to own their own home (50% versus 81%).

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Lesbian Parentage: Serious Things to Consider

As of late I have had the sad experience of encountering a number of cases in which one parent lost their children upon removal of the children from the state by the bio-mom. Though I have written about this in the past it seems that the LGBT community has not taken heed to my warnings. Therefore, I find it necessary to write about it again.

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