Fall harvest (at the Edible Schoolyard), Berkeley, CA.

Is this legible? If not, just go to Bellini’s Here and Now VLOG Blog to get the scoop. This evening he’s posting an interview he did this afternoon with NGLTF’s Matt Forman on the strategic questions regarding to include T, or not to include T, or how to include T, if to [...]

At right, from Mama’s cellphone camera: Sister lords it over the brother at the YMCA’s Kindergym.
First the bad news: I cannot report on it today, because I missed yesterday’s symposium on the 21st Century Family, hosted by Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. I could blame myself, but I’d rather blame a cascading [...]

The Greater Good Science Center is “devoted to the scientific understanding of happy and compassionate individuals, strong social bonds, and altruistic behavior.” As a member of the extended Univesity of California, Berkeley family as an alum and a sometime staffer, I’ve known about the center’s work for some time, going back [...]

Doting auntie (teething nephew), Berkeley, CA.

This was not a braid-off between Baba and Mama, with Baba clearly on the left (the losing side), and Mama on the right (the winning side). No, the lil’ monkey simply wanted only one side braided. The asymmetrical is back.
Anyone else wanting a kindred spirit in braiding angst will be well-rewarded by Harlyn [...]

Those in the know will recall that today’s National Coming Out Day, or NCOD for the AO (Acronym Oriented). Today, in the U.S. and abroad, LGBT people and their allies are encouraged to take another step out of the proverbial closet. It’s all relative, but the idea is, wherever you are in your [...]