Outdoors…

…and in.

The first in what’s sure to be a fitful spring break travelogue.  Who knows — this may be the first and last entry.  But right now I got WiFi and an eddy of time as my daughter makes a windsock in the hotel’s kid’s club!  While the beloved reconnointers the beach with the boy child [...]

And now for something completely different.
For this weekend bonus shot, not B&W, not even a still picture.  Video, shot on a pocket point & shoot camera by an old friend on the fly, practically on the sly. About four random (to me, beautiful) minutes on a sunny  Sunday afternoon in spring.
The boy child was doing [...]

Which, in the lil’ peanut’s world, equals: zoo train.
He waved enthusiastically at everyone we passed by.  At least 33% waved back. Unalloyed unselfconsciousness: the double-edged, enviable, indomitable power of the three year-old.
When the zoo train took its San Francisco Bay view loop, all us grown ups were casting our eyes out across the beautiful, wind-swept vista. [...]

Charlie Brown eat your heart out.

E.U.P. • February 27, 1995 — March 24, 2005.
[I posted the photograph above and the poem below for the past two years on this date.  Most of the explanatory text below, last year too.
Muted backstory about my nephew here (I provided an anchor link to the relevant part, but it seems to [...]

Anyone who reads stuff online, particularly LGBT thinky stuff, will surely have seen treatment of the census topic and we invisible/ blurry/ quizzical/ perpetually misread LGBT people.
Still, I thought I’d aid and abet.  I got my notice from our daughter’s public school some time ago, saying the census would be coming, and that as a [...]

Just cross-posted an LD post from a few weeks back,”20 Questions About Lesbian Fatherhood,” at BlogHer, the venerable über-site for women online.
Go read it there, if you hadn’t here, or if you had here and never got around to making that comment you wanted to, comment there! The really interesting thing is that the reading [...]