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How to Talk To Your Children About Gay Parents, By a Gay Parent
Image via Wikipedia Imagine you’re at the train station, taking your kids into the city to see the Lion King. A man steps off the train, and two toddlers run up to him shouting, “Daddy! Daddy!” He...
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Welcome, Thank You and Please
Image via Wikipedia It’s always nice to see my hit count spike when I post something people connect with. So, first of all, welcome to all the new visitors who’ve been coming to this blog. I hope...
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Modern Family Thinks My Family is “Creepy”
I guess there’s one episode of “Modern Family” I won’t be showing my kids after all. In this week’s episode, Mitchell, Cam, Phil and Claire all got really drunk, and Claire came up with a crazy...
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Confessions of a Bad Dad: My Sick Kid
Of all the roles being a dad has forced me into, the one I’ve been least prepared for is “doctor”. It took three nights of Bennett throwing up before I took him to see a medical professional. She...
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They’re So Cute When They’re Making Fun Of You*
1 Day Old… 2 1/2 Years Old… * I may no longer feel this way when they’re teenagers.
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Happy Other’s Day!
There are work-arounds to not having a mother in your family. Our kids drank formula rather than breast milk. We make adjustments to forms when necessary. And when our twins are overly cranky, we...
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8 Surprising Facts About Egg Donors
One of the more neglected purposes of this blog is to share information (and dispel myths) about makin’ gaybies. I want to educate people about my family – and at the same time help prospective...
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We Were On “The Today Show”
I never planned to put my kids on camera. I mean, my cameras, sure. I have about 10 bajillion hours of video of them doing completely mundane things like drooling or singing that new Taylor Swift...
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9 Incredibly Uncomfortable Yet Absolutely Essential Questions to Ask...
This is the latest in a series of informational posts I’ve been doing on the gestational surrogacy process. This is for those of you who might be where I was about 5 years ago, weighing the options...
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Past Posts Revisited: How to Talk to Your Children About Gay Parents, by a...
I’m always happy when someone reposts my piece How to Talk to Your Children About Gay Parents, by a Gay Parent. It’s one of my favorite things I’ve posted here, and I tend to hear back some really...
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Gay Dads Have All The Answers…
Her first self-portrait “Daddy, when I’m an adult, I’m going to grow a baby in my belly.” “That’s great, Honey, and if that’s what you decide, then yes, you can.” “But Daddy…?” “Yes?” “How does it get...
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3 Days And Counting… Amazon Chart Twerk update!
Great news! My book has cracked the top 674,000 on Amazon! I actually noticed it go as high as the top 176,000 shortly after I announced the presale, but clearly most of you have been holding out for...
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The Big Book Update
It’s hard to believe my book will be released in just over two months. It was picked up by the publisher early last year, but due to the editing and promotion schedules, the actual books are still a...
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My 5 Biggest Fears About Surrogacy — and How I Overcame Them
Note: To ramp up for my appearance this weekend at the Families Through Surrogacy conference in San Francisco, I’m posting another informational/opinion piece (infopinion?) on gestational surrogacy,...
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More Mommy Man Selfies!
I’m getting more and more selfies on my Facebook page. If you haven’t posted yours yet, please do. I’d love to see you holding my book, and at the end of May, I’ll send out an autographed copy to...
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My First Video: What to Expect When You’re Expecting… And Gay!
I was very honored to be asked to contribute to a recent surrogacy conference in Australia, held by the group Families Through Surrogacy, who also invited me to their San Francisco conference back in...
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Today’s Surrogacy Article in the New York Times
The New York Times ran a feature story on surrogacy on today’s front page, and I’m left wondering, as I often do when this topic makes news, what most people are taking away from the story. The article...
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Upcoming DC Surrogacy Conference
There’s been a lot of negative press about surrogacy lately, and it makes me really sad, because, as I say here all the time, surrogacy changed my life, and everyone involved in our case feels like...
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Meet Anne: A Slap-In-The-Face Interview With a Child of Surrogacy
Last month, I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at the first ever WordPress-sponsored Press Publish conference in Portland, Oregon. While I was there, I met tons of awesome people, but the one...
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My Interview With Anne, a Child of Surrogacy (Part 2)
I’ve had a great response to Part 1 of my interview with Anne, a young woman born through surrogacy in 1993. The comments have been incredibly supportive, understanding and appreciative of her...
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