Archive for May, 2006

Pops

0 Comments Published May 31st, 2006 in Miscellaney, Seraphim/dakini.

DadDad & his granddaughter.
I just sent in an essay today, musings on the occasion of Father’s Day for consideration at an online ‘zine. If it doesn’t appear there or anywhere else, digitally or via ink, I’ll definitely post it here on Pops’/Baba’s Day. Meanwhile, all that thinking about fathers and Fathers’ Day and my own [...]

On the same page

1 Comment Published May 25th, 2006 in Miscellaney.

So this spring, Confessions of the Other Mother came out and of course I’ve been watching its progress as it (bearing my humble essay) inches its way up and down the Amazon.com sales rank list.
Imagine my thrill when I saw it debut at a sales rank in the vicinity of 855,592 (out of 4+ million [...]

At the library

0 Comments Published May 24th, 2006 in Miscellaney.

The Berkeley Public Library reading room.
I spent some time yesterday working in the Berkeley Public Library. My mother spent most of her after-school hours there, as a Berkeley High School student in the late 1930s. But before her afternoon at the library began, she went across the street to Edie’s Ice Cream shop and [...]

Mr. Mom in the house

0 Comments Published May 18th, 2006 in Baba familias.

Mr. Keaton in his breakout role.
It’s a new day.
A week ago I left full time, 8-5 employment, and began to bob into the sea of fiscal indeterminacy. Scary-painful like pulling off a BandAid all at once. But the payoffs, in the realm of parental connection, have been immediate and profound and I will do [...]

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