For Stew and me, news about the progress of marriage equality doesn't come from headlines or the the noise from the burgeoning circus parade of Republican presidential candidates but from private yet significant moments at airports, car rental counters and hotel registration desks.It's always bugged me that at airport customs and passport checkpoints Stew and …
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The weight of things and people past
Contrary to all the advice to leave most of our belongings behind when we moved to Mexico, a semi-trailer nearly full of furniture, books, kitchen utensils and china, garden tools, pictures and unidentified "stuff" followed us down here. It wasn't even an act of conscious hoarding: Stew and I became so frustrated and enraged trying …
Service for an Age of Marriage Equality
The following were the words for the service at our wedding:THE MARRIAGE OFSTEWART HAMMER AND ALFREDO LANIERSaturday, September 28, 2013at The First Parish of Stow and ActonThe Rev. Tom Rosiello, officiantOPENING WORDSIt is my privilege to officiate at this wedding. Until just a few years ago,when two individuals of the same sex who loved each …
El Rancho Santa Clara 