And by carousel ride, I’m not referring lyrically to the online comment stream debates elsewhere (I’m thinking of those at Autostraddle and AfterEllen) between women who have seen the lesbian family film The Kids Are All Right, which opened in limited release this past weekend and is opening in wider release this Friday (theaters here), and those [...]

A quick sketch of the complexity of people.
The boychild and I were at a stationary supply store this morning, getting the nicest congratulations on completing Kindergarten/ congratulations on starting preschool gifties I know to give these kids: spiffy little hardback notebooks and fresh felt-tipped pens with which to fill them.  Per usual, the boychild is [...]

What’s wrong with this picture? The smiling kid. Okay he looks like he’s smirking, but that’s because he was watching funny cartoon figures doing the Cabbage Patch, and he thought they were kind of phoning in their performance.
Never have I seen a first dental visit go smoother, except in the case of his older sister. [...]

Compare with Squash goatee, of about a year and a half ago, for a quickie blast from the past. Double his lifetime later, he’s so sophisticated now. So debonair. So — hey! Is that a stinky diaper I smell?

No one has lost a tooth in the household as of yet, a matter which brings the girl child no end of grief.
When kid after kid in her Kindergarten began to swagger into class of a mornin’,  gap-toothed and worldly-wise, she started to fret. She asked us why it was that everyone under the sun [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]