The beloved has a spate of evening rehearsals during the upcoming month or so, and I’ve called in the reinforcements, which for the most part consists of a phalanx of chums I’ve seen far too little of since we got with child #2. It’s not like I couldn’t hack it, managing the dinner/bath/bedtime routine [...]

This just in from Dana, our gal at the Mombian desk:
Sources tell me the Today show tomorrow (Wednesday, September 19) on Thursday, September 20 will be covering the ongoing debate in the Evesham, New Jersey School District over whether to ban a diversity film that includes an LGBT family.

Check her post for the details.
I would [...]

A kid-sized haywagon, some forgotten apple trees brimming with fruit, and thou.
(Fruit stains at mouth: from wild blackberries, picked before the apple. Direction of gaze: the next apple, custom-plucked by Auntie Liz.)

In the Butterfly Garden, Tilden Nature Area, Berkeley, CA.

It’s been such a busy news week at Casa LD that it’s been a slow news week at the blog.
Which is to say, most of the household attention has been paid to the turning three of a certain someone, plus the matter of that two-going-on-three-year-old beginning (and staying a whole morning at!) preschool. [...]

[Thanks to the Know-It-All-Brother-In-Law for the picture.]
…ninety-seven to go.

Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco.
Does this look like a two year old to you? Yeah, well that was soooo three days ago. ‘Cause now she’s soooo three.
[And Happy New Year, people! May 5768 be a good year for you.]

Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco.
Love to those who remember and grieve today, and wisdom to us all.
Some of which wisdom can be found, for example, Susan Faludi’s look at the myths underlying the administration’s response (in the NY Times), or Gary Kamiya’s look at the source of the response in a lethal combination of [...]