So this weekend is a very special Pride with gay marriage back on the books for California and a glimmer of hope for the entire USA in the years to come.  I’m having a big birthday (I find the fives are the hardest) on Tuesday, followed by a very long vacation that I’m getting very excited about to Vancouver BC (so my first time in Canada), Seattle, Iceland, London, Paris, Barcelona, Roma and Calabria, and maybe Germany and a few other European cities before returning in August for a long Lazybear Weekend in Guerneville.  Did a lot of research on Iceland (which has a lesbian prime minister) today and I’m excited about being in 24 hours of light and seeing all of the “unearthly” things that environment has to show me.

All that and my daughter recently getting married and taking a honeymoon to Maui makes this one of the most monumental summers of my life.