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2 Comments Published May 25th, 2009 in A month o' photos, On marriage and commitment, Two kinds o' people.

Dress-up box aftermath. When the parents are engrossed in conversation, Things are Bound to Happen.
I don’t yet have a Memorial Day photo of my Pops, WWII – Normandy Beach-landing vet, because his annual BBQ dinner is this evening and I’m hoping to convince him to pose for me in his father’s ship captain hat (Pops [...]

Maddow Widowers’ Support Group, open for business

24 Comments Published February 18th, 2009 in Anima animus, Baba familias, Nonsense fun, Two kinds o' people.

When the esteemed Dr. Rachel Maddow, Ph.D. (that’s Pretty hot Dyke, for those unfamiliar with academic acronyms) blew onto the national TV scene as a commentator for MSNBC, tons of gals’ undies got all up in a wad.  And I mean that in a good way.
Coast to coast and up and down the internets, [...]

Things are different now, part 1

6 Comments Published May 3rd, 2007 in Baba familias, Seraphim/dakini, Two kinds o' people.

Nearly two years ago, my beloved and I took our daughter, then ten months old, to the Alameda County fair. It was a hotter-than-July hot July day, not a fit day for anything but lizards to be out of doors. The temperatures in the Livermore Valley, which is sidled up next to California’s [...]

Stockholm Syndrome, infant version

14 Comments Published February 24th, 2007 in Re: the lil' peanut, Two kinds o' people.

I’m sick, the baby’s sick, the dog’s sick. It looks like the toddler’s en route to getting sick with what I’m trying to kick, which I have because she gave it to me months ago. But worst of all, the computer’s sick! The horror, the horror! ‘Til it’s well again, I’ve [...]

Fifth list of ten: How to build a better weblog award competition

3 Comments Published December 20th, 2006 in Miscellaney, Ten lists of ten, Two kinds o' people.

Original photo credit: The Windgrove Center, Tasmania, AU.
In celebration of the 100th post, part five in a ten-part series.
[Warning A: Jumbo post alert! Warning B: Of little interest to anyone who didn't ride the Weblog Awards roller coaster last week! If you didn't, please check back in another day or two for actual content! [...]

We really are family

27 Comments Published December 15th, 2006 in Baba familias, Go hetero ally go!, Two kinds o' people.

Moms group takes a field trip.
All week I have been contemplating what I might put in my heart-rending concession speech, to be published promptly after the polls close on this Weblog Awards whirligig. Then I thought: why wait ’til the end of the night? Because what I was going to say would have [...]

Lear goes to lunch

1 Comment Published December 14th, 2006 in Go hetero ally go!, Pops, Two kinds o' people.

At our family’s dining room-away-from-home.
There are two kinds of lovers of literature: those who savor every word and image, regarding characters like they were old friends and old enemies. Then there are the rank opportunists, shameless scavengers who traipse through Great Books with the sole intention of poaching a random line here and there [...]

In celebration of the 100th post

10 Comments Published December 11th, 2006 in Miscellaney, Ten lists of ten, Two kinds o' people.

A hundred stones on a beach in Tasmania, placed and photographed by a blogger (far more imaginative and intrepid than me) to symbolize and celebrate a hundred blog entries (click the photo to link to them).
Warning! Warning! It’s a blog meme. Or at least I think it is. I’m still enough of a [...]

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