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Jen Gruskoff

Professional Information

Title

Co-founder, Editor In-Chief, Goodkin LLC

Bio

Jennifer Gruskoff is a screenwriter with a degree in fiction from Sarah Lawrence and is currently the co-founder and editor of Goodkin.

She resides in the Hollywood Hills with her partner and their two young daughters.

My Website

http://WeAreGoodkin.com

History

Member for: 31 weeks 3 days

Articles By This Author

Baby 2 Baby

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Stuff. It’s everywhere you look. There literally is no escaping it. And never is this truer than when you start having babies, who seem to be born consumers even before the first diaper change. With entry into parenthood comes a truckload of gadgets and possessions.… Read + Discuss >>

Letter From the Editor: September

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September always feels like the beginning of the year for me. Somehow, I think our clocks get set at a very early young age to the rhythm of school beginning and we never really outgrow this. At least that's the case for me. There's always a small part of me that feels like I am starting with a clean slate, a new beginning… Read + Discuss >>

Top City Schools for LGBT Families

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Being gay and having a child may add another dimension to the normal concerns that parents have when their kids begin a new school year, whether it's starting school for the first time or beginning a new middle school. The good news is that most LGBT families across the country found that school administrations and teachers… Read + Discuss >>

A Vision of Family

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What can be bad about a happy relationship, traveling the globe with rock 'n' roll status and a house full of adoring pugs? The answer is, of course, nothing. And that’s pretty much how both Anita and Mark Mothersbaugh saw it. They were a fabulously busy, happy couple that decided that they were going to have a… Read + Discuss >>

Unmarried Man Adopts Family

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Beau Bonneau is an unmarried, good-looking business man living in Hollywood. Two years ago, at the age of 44, when he should have been off buying Porsches for his mid-life crisis and sauntering around with twenty-year-old hotties, he became a father to four Mexican orphans, Luis, Abram, Brisa and Evelin, all brothers and… Read + Discuss >>

Mama Non Grata

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Goodkin is excited to inform you about two things: a wonderful book that came out in 2009 called And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families, and a seasoned queer mom blogger named Susan Goldberg....… Read + Discuss >>

Modern Family Name-Game

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In light of Portia de Rossi taking on her wife Ellen Degeneres' name, gays and lesbians can once again be proud that they are at the forefront of the ever changing name game in our society. I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to Portia and Ellen for paving the way once again and doing something outside the norm but… Read + Discuss >>

Marley Coffee Giveaway!

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You've probably read by now how much we love coffee around Goodkin, specifically the fabulous and sustainable Marley Coffee. Full of fun flavor and good-for-the-earth attitude, we really support all the positive efforts to the make the world a better place that the Marley family is doing. To help kick start your days so you and… Read + Discuss >>

Marley Coffee

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I love coffee. It is one of the joys in life. Since I don't drink wine, I get to be a geek about coffee, and that makes me pretty happy. As a mom, it can be my soothing element; it just makes the marathon of a day with two incredible, wonderful, curious and energetic daughters seem even brighter.… Read + Discuss >>

Gayby Boom! The Documentary

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Through the rest of August, Goodkin will be featuring regular blog posts from Lisa Marie Evans, a documentary filmmaker in the process of making a film called Gayby Boom. Lisa is creating a movie and a movement with her current project by compiling home videos sent in from around the world by LGBT parents and children of, and… Read + Discuss >>