Archive for October, 2007
At the Halloween Block Party
1 Comment Published October 31st, 2007 in Mostly a picture, Re: the lil' monkey.The lil’ monkey, here disguised as a dragon, faces the audience and judges at the neighborhood Halloween Block Party costume contest. Second only to the jumpy house, which I have said before gives me more heebie-jeebies than a flock of middle school kids in Freddie Krueger masks, the costume contest is the highlight of [...]
[Below is a press release from the Bay Area LGBTQ Family Collaborative.]
OUR FAMILIES: Attributes of Bay Area Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
& Transgender Parents and their Children
(SAN FRANCISCO, CA - October 30, 2007) The Bay Area LGBTQ Family Collaborative, comprised of three organizations — Our Family Coalition, The San Francisco LGBT Community Center, and [...]
My little girl’s growing up
2 Comments Published October 29th, 2007 in Mostly a picture, Re: the lil' monkey, Sunrise Sunset file.(Or, Monkey develops what my sister affectionately calls “Husband Hearing”)
Baba: Okay, sweetie, it’ time to get ready for bed!
Monkey (in a petulant tone): Nnnnnnnnnnnno!
Baba: Now why would you be cranky like that? When I’m being all gracious and civilized.
Monkey: My feeling is that I don’t hear so well.
Baba: Oh really?
Monkey: Yeah. Like my [...]
Weekend bonus shot, 10.27.07
7 Comments Published October 27th, 2007 in Mostly a picture, Weekend bonus shot.Happy baby, big lens, Berkeley, CA.
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Nature: 1, Nurture: 1
13 Comments Published October 24th, 2007 in Mostly a picture, Re: the lil' peanut.Mmmm yep. Things are just a tad different with the boychild. Pictured above: the only way we can now manage to change his diapers without him corkscrewing himself into the neighboring county, and/or giving one of us a nervous breakdown (either diaper-er, or diaper-ee).
I’m an unreconstructed, dyed-in-the-wool social constructionist, which is [...]
Two years ago my sister called me from Copenhagen, where she was then living with her family, to tell me that her son wanted to do a presentation to his first grade class about Gay Pride. Each kid in the class was presenting on a holiday from their home culture — it was an [...]
Happiness is an old friend
4 Comments Published October 22nd, 2007 in Baba familias, Go hetero ally go!, Odes.Special Cousin and Special Auntie dote on the lil’ peanut, while the lil’ monkey takes flight.
You just never know, is the thing.
Ever so many years ago I was a college freshman, worried on the one hand about living away from home in a big smelly student co-op, yet thrilled on the other by [...]
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