Good news: boy likes to play with my meditation cushion. Bad news: here, he set it up as “a movie” to watch.
I will invoke the fifth amendment on the topic of whether or not I, ahem, from time to time, ahem, allow him to take in the animated/visual arts. While I cook dinner and his [...]

We took a hike in the woods recently, the kids and I, while Mama was out of town for some hard-earned R&R. Yes, things started out a little bumpy (see Sunday’s post), but before long we, meaning Baba, had regained our composure and had a delightful time.
We’re nearing the end of our loop through the [...]

Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, only with way more dirt than herbe, Berkeley, CA.
After a harrowing tour through a poison oak hedge — okay, maybe I’m exaggerating, but only a little, and no, nobody got any, thanks to Baba’s code red terror alert vigilance (”Don’t even LOOK at the verdant splendor at the side of the [...]

Like the post two weeks back, when it was all pictures even though I had so much of a story I wanted to tell in words.

Out for brunch with DadDad at a local diner frequented by me mum, many years ago.  Therefore it’s a sentimental favorite.  Pops reaches for something to sweeten up his coffee, and contemplates the various colored packets containing faux sugar.
“Let’s see: blue, pink, or yellow?”  he asks no one in particular.  I see the sugar jar [...]

The funny little mixed mail bag that is the same-sex couple’s tax return today.
All the same-sex married folk in Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Conneticut, the District of Columbia are sending in one state form and two federal forms today.  Folks in New York and Maryland are also recognized at the state level, wherever [...]

One of the wonderful things about this two-kid thing is the opportunity to see how unique we all are, how very much we bring into the world to begin with.  A common roof and the same caregivers can confer many similarities, but only to a point.  We are who we are.  Or maybe were.  Or [...]