Jenny and I have been very dear, very close friends since 1996. She met her current butch spouse, Em, when I met my now ex-butch spouse and we all occupied cyberspace together for a long time. We've stayed connected across 3,000 miles with occasional visits whenever we can swing it. We've been through some of the saddest and also most joyous times in these years and we've consoled and comforted one another, and criticized when needed (more Jenny to me than me to her) :) . I cannot imagine my life without her.
So we started a blog together since neither of us have any time and it's entirely impractical but sometimes you have to do what matters even if it isn't practical. Jenny works fulltime at a demanding job in the Bay Area, she has two small children, and a helpful and handsome butch. On any given days she's writing a book, walking her dog, cooking dinner, driving the kids to a zillion places, getting her hair colored, her eyebrows done, a pedicure, taking workshops and courses, studying a new online application, explaining my iPhone to me, paying bills, figuring out what to wear, writing a blog entry. Me; I'm exercising, running around Prospect Park, writing a memoir, looking for work, joining networking organizations, taking a zipcar to Fairway, cooking, walking the poodles, going on a date, writing essays, trying to figure out Brooklyn by bike, doing my nails, visting Manhattan friends who won't come to Brooklyn, submitting essays, going out with my son and his girlfriend, talking up my personal training business, paying bills, fretting about bills...
So here's our blog. My first entry is Doubting Jew from here but it was a jumping off place for Jenny and also it includes one of our many funny text conversations.
http://brooklyntoberkeley.blogspot.com/
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