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 [...]

(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 [...]

Happy baby, big lens, Berkeley, CA.

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 [...]

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 [...]