http://www.lesbiandad.net notes from the crossroads of mother and father Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:47:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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." http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/02/weekend-bonus-shot-02-07-10/ The boy and I are driving back from a morning's peregrenations -- hardware store (my idea, natch), bakery (we both agreed, natch), library (his suggestion) -- and we were listening to one of his favorite songs on the Free to Be You and Me album: "When We Grow Up." It's sung ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/02/for-ever-and-ever-and-ever/ 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. http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/02/weekend-bonus-shot-monday-edition-02-01-10/ 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 ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/clan-of-the-cave-bear-meets-mary-poppins/ Many of you watched or heard the President's State of the Union speech last night.  So did my daughter, much to her great thrill ("We're staying up late! To watch the news!" she said, with a frisson of excitement).  Throughout the speech, though, she was left with a great number of ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/some-sotu-notes-for-your-edification/ Who knew?! Clearly not me. If it weren't for a friendly note from someone who found out about Lesbian Dad from the voting page, I'd have never, ever known. Nominations opened January 1st, closed January 12th, and then randomly selected voters chose finalists from a list of the most-nominated weblogs. And yegods, ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/mother-of-god-ld-is-up-for-a-bloggie/ Boy with pinkie, Berkeley, CA. http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/weekend-bonus-shot-01-23-10/ 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 ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/twos-company-threes-loud/ "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 ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/weekend-bonus-shot-01-17-10/ Certainly you know of the calamity in Haiti. [Constantly updated Wikipedia page here.] Here's the whole of Bitch,Ph.D.'s post Help Haiti: If you are among the many who wish there was something you could do to help Haitians right now, here is some advice in choosing organizations to support. Short version: send $, ... http://www.lesbiandad.net/2010/01/haiti/