Shoe, Berkeley, CA.
I asked his big sister to help get us out the door faster by putting his shoes and socks on. This was what she considered “done.”

Belly swingers, Berkeley, CA.
Archival image from about a half a year (and one significant boy haircut) ago. Swinging predilections and techniques remain as depicted.

Face painting self-administered, for the occasion of her Gramma’s birthday. She wanted to write “Happy Birthday” on her face, but we convinced her that writing backwards into the mirror with grease pencils onto a fairly small surface area was a doomed, if imaginative, undertaking.
For the fun of it, here’s the self-administered face paint job circa [...]

Boy with pinkie, Berkeley, CA.

And so we enter the terrible threes. Again.
The variation on this theme? BOY! Who, like his sister, certainly isn’t limiting his contentiousness to his second year. All folks near young humans know that the phrase “terrible twos” is only in common usage because of the alliteration thing.  Three years old is when most young humans [...]

“Martin Luther King Jr, Birmingham Alabama, 1963,” by Ernst Haas.
One of my favorite photographs of Dr. King. Given the year and the setting (a jail), I think we can be fairly sure this was not just any jail, but a Birmingham one, and that the text being passed was one which included Dr. King’s now [...]

Weekend morning reading, Berkeley, CA.

Singer-songwriter, Arnold, CA.
Will I let him go on tour before he’s finished high school? S’pose that depends on whether he’s willing to give Baba the comfy seat on the tour bus.