Noted above are all the girl child’s imaginary friends who live, according to her, “in thin air.”   So many friends! And so many  that are new to me!  Such as, all but two: Mary and Sally. Yeah, so they’re spelled phonetically (better than Phoenicianly! that would be impossible!). If you peer closely you will [...]

Herbert Gettridge, 83, in front of his house in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, in 2006. Photo © David Rae Morris, from his “Lagniappe” series, Katrina at One.  
The man who took this picture is an old friend and partner one of my dearest friends (when I was as yet parentally nameless, she suggested the winner: [...]

[Keeping up the stream of non-prosey posts in the last, heady,  pre-K, dog days of summer.]
Guess who’s gunnin’ to be one among that rare, goth set of Kindergartners with bags under her eyes, thanks to staying up late reading?
Okay, well, proto-crypto-pseudo-quasi-reading. Air-quotes reading. The age-appropriate stuff, she breezes through. The within spitting distance of age-appropriate, [...]

It’s the 2009 LD Reader Survey, now with added SWAG RAFFLE OPTION!

A sign of the times: the big sister is totally fine on her own (note the chillaxed rider of white horse in the background). Also, a sign that the lil’ bro is not the big thrill-seeker (just yet): he lobbied heavily for a “merry-go-around” ride, but still only wanted to sit on the little stationary [...]

Not talkin’ Wal-Mart.
Both these characters were named “Daisy,” by the way, and they had a lengthy dispute about which one was the real Daisy.
The day before this box was not a puppet theater, but the blessed vessel holding the girlie’s first actual mattress. Before that, she slept on a skimpy Ikea foam jobbie, which did [...]

“Hello, my name is not lady,” Butch Voices conference, Oakland, CA.
Water bottle decor above sported by (local pro nanny!) Red, who says she got this from girlsnotchicks.com. Even if I couldn’t find a sticker looking like this one at their site (did I remember wrong? I very well could have remembered wrong), I totally enjoyed being [...]

What is the only thing that is big enough to follow a peak experience like graduating from preschool?  Yep. An ice cream sundae with sprinkles. [Detail here.]
After just a bite or two, she said, “This is the best ice cream I’ve ever had in my whole life. Everyone who sees this” — and I must [...]