By: Jason Howe The goddess Eos fell in love with a mortal, Tithonus. Desperate to stay with him forever, she implored Zeus to grant him the immortality of the gods – forgetting to also secure for him their eternal youth. Tithonus indeed lived forever, but grew so old and frail that out of pity Eos […]
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The Supreme Court Ruling: DOMA
The Pending Supreme Court Case That Could Change Lives
By: Jason Howe Sometimes the question pounces from the most unexpected directions. I was sitting in our daughters’ playpen, reading “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” for the third time that day. That’s when our nanny sprung it on me: “Are you the father and Adrián is the mother?” she asked. She’d worked for us for nearly a year […]
Every child has the right to the protection, stability and respect that only marriage provides
By Jason Howe An exploratory brush at the tip of my nose. Half-asleep, I’m barely aware and don’t respond. Once again, more insistent, it makes its way into the opening of my nostril. Still no response. Then it comes: not just an I’m-stopped-at-a-signal-and-I-don’t- think- anyone-is-looking scrape of the septum; not just a I’m-driving-on the-101-and-no-one-is-near-up-to-the-cuticle foray into the nostril; […]