Dana at Mombian alerts us to an urgent battle in New Jersey, where the Evesham School District is buckling to pressure from bigoted parent groups, and eliminating the beautiful family diversity documentary “That’s a Family” from their curriculum.
If you’re local, school yourself on the issue, and show your support at the school board meeting Tuesday, [...]

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part eight in a ten-part series.
[Key: lil' monkey/ kid #1 = 2.3 yr old daughter; lil' peanut/ kid #2 = 3 week old son]
As proof that a static state of happiness is a mirage, but then again so is a static [...]

Three weeks old tonight.

Lil’ monkey resting between miserable crying jags after she finally went Tilt! in front of the popsicle case at the store.
We are at our local eco-green organic free-range pharmacy, the lil’ monkey and I, and she has been plastered against the popsicle case for the better part of five solid minutes, during which time I [...]

The Know-It-All-Brother-In-Law saw a resemblance to Winston Churchill.
A stretch? You be the judge.
I am so thrilled that so many of youse were happy to jump aboard the Newborn Madness bandwagon with me and hazard a guess as to how many pictures I could possibly have taken in a twenty minute span of the little [...]

And another one strikes the dust. Visiting Auntie Rache joins her ma, who was smote a good two weeks ago at the birth.
Q: What’s almost as dear to a fresh parent’s eyes as the sight of the wee babe peacefully sleeping?
A: The sight of the wee babe peacefully sleeping while being bathed [...]

Make your own wall o’ pix using this nifty interface here.
These were taken nearly a week ago in a veritable orgy of redundant portraiture. It was the first time his eyes were open a significant number of minutes on end, and before midnight, a time when I am (a) capable of focussing on objects [...]