Headdress, Berkeley, CA.
“Do you like my hair?  Some of it is blonde, and some of it is just my dress.  I’m pretending it’s a headdress.”

We all sat around the room at my sister’s house, postponing dinner for nearly an hour.  Our ages ranging from 1.5 years to 87, tweenagers and a teenager, thirty-somethings and forty-somethings and sixty-somethings, and we all of us watched, only the 1.5 year old not riveted.
 I am so proud that this may be my daughter’s [...]

…and the rest of us, let’s not rest until we finish the job in her name.
Del Martin, lesbian civil rights pioneer, died in San Francisco today at the age of 87. She is survived by her partner of 55 years, and legal spouse of 71 days, Phyllis Lyon.
I hope you will read many tributes [...]

Apropos of nothing in particular about lesbian parenting, and everything in general about the world I hope my kids will grow up into, Michelle Obama’s speech from Monday:

Michelle Obama’s Speech at the Democratic National Convention

and this herstoric speech, from the Contender, last night:

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Speech at the Democratic National Convention

both courtesy The New York [...]

This week, the lil’ monkey’s preschool is on vacation. As evidenced by the yawning gaps between posts, I find myself with a bit more childcare on my hands. In between our many trips to the zoo, the arboretum, the natural history museum, the botanical garden, the planetarium, and the Museum of Modern Art, [...]

Saturday pancake, Berkeley, CA.

Acclaimed playwright Terry Baum has revived her one-woman play, Immediate Family, and will be performing it through this fall as a fundraiser for the No on Proposition 8 (the CA marriage ban) campaign. She’ll be performing it this Sunday, August 24 at 2pm, at her San Francisco home. Find out where by sending [...]

Who’s having more fun: kid, or babysitter? You be the judge.
 
One of the lil’ monkey’s two childcare-for-voice lessons caregivers cared for her for the last time today. Most likely. She’s a recently graduated high school senior, virtually matriculated college freshman. She’s off to Boston any day now.
They had spent the morning together [...]