Setting: Curbside at SFO (San Francisco International Airport).
Time of day: Early afternoon on a Friday; prime time for high-roller weekend travellers.
Characters: The self, the beloved, the bairn. Also: bystanders in line for curbside check-in.
Motivation: Transfer all the paraphernalia out of the vehicle and into some kind of condition which the beloved [...]

Photo credit: The beloved.
In which we go to L.A. for a long weekend, and I have to pry friends and family off the lil’ brudder with a spatula and a can of DW-40.

Arise then…women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach [...]

Baba’s eye view, Berkeley, CA.

Dear MoveOn Member,
Good news: MoveOn’s sister organization, MomsRising, is offering a free Motherhood Manifesto DVD as a gift to MoveOn members, in honor of Mother’s Day. MomsRising is working to get out the word about the challenges mothers face in America. The Motherhood Manifesto is a funny, powerful and intensely engaging film that uses [...]

…the Baba will watch the child get blueberry smoothie all over everything, and do nothing more than run and snatch up the camera. I’m sparing you another picture of the swirly dress, but verily it is upon her, underneath the hoodie. And the blueberry smoothie is upon it.
Nice facial decor for the Code [...]

“Remember the dead: Resist the War,” from MatthewBradley’s Flickr photostream.
I imagine the enlightened readership of this here blog is well aware of the genuine, pacifist origins of Mother’s Day. I’ll reprint Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation on the day proper, and just note here that Code Pink is organizing Mother’s Day [...]