Bouncing boy, Berkeley, CA.
Baba’s Day’s coming up! For anyone casting around for a last minute gift for the Baba of their children, or what have you, here’s a gratuitous and 11th hour reminder of the poorly organized, haphazardly stocked Lesbian Dad Cafe Press shop.  If I wasn’t already angling for the accordion-playing garden gnome, I’d [...]

Kiss goodnight, Castro Valley, CA.
Memorial Day BBQ chez DadDad. This brief post shows Pops with a photo of the kind of ship he served on in WWII, along with a little story.  I’m sorry none of the 2oth century wars turned out to be “the war to end all wars,” as some vainly hoped. I’m [...]

WE DON’T LIVE IN YOUR SHADOW WE GROW IN YOUR SHADE, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA, March 5, 2009.  (From the LD archives).
This was outside the California Supreme Court on the morning arguments were heard in the case challenging Proposition 8’s constitutionality. Reader and online comrade BeethovenLives reminded me of this image, for which reminder [...]

With babies, Berkeley, CA.
A coupla more (in the same vein) after the jump.

True story, Sausalito, CA.
I asked the girlchild to complete the sentence.  She hardly even paused before she chalked up the last two words. [Locale: Bay Area Discovery Museum.]

Sideview, Tilden Park, Berkeley, CA.

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 [...]

Post-rainbow sherbet Push-Up mouth wipe, Sherman Oaks, CA.
Quite unrelated to sherbet, or Push-Ups, or low production values, oops! Baba’s-on-the job hygiene: today she said this to her Mama: “When I was little, I couldn’t tell the difference between dreams and real life. And now I know that dreams are much smaller than life.”