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Blue Friday
On our last visit to my beloved’s dear chum in LA, I took the kids to the Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena. Quite naturally, they gravitated to this “Raindrop Climber” dealie. You know, one of...
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Multicolored Monday
Girl reading in her aerie, Berkeley, CA. Now we see her, now we don’t.
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In the Words of Our Children: Supreme Court, Take Note
We’re on the eve of the United States Supreme Court’s hearing arguments for and against marriage equality. Tuesday is Prop 8′s day in court, Wednesday DOMA takes the stand. The consequences, regardless...
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On our way
En route to San Francisco City Hall demo (May 26, 2009: CA Supreme Court ruling to uphold Prop 8). A blast from the past. This has been such a long, tiring journey. Which of course is basically par...
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Three portraits
Niece with sparkler, Berkeley, CA. Nephew with sparkler, Berkeley, CA. Daughter with sparkler, Berkeley, CA. My niece turned 11 the other day. We had a “village” dinner tonight, village meaning...
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About the Time magazine cover story
A much-ballyhoo’ed issue of Time magazine hit the newsstands today. By “much-ballyhoo’ed,” I mean they did a lot of advance PR for it among LGBT folks online (sample size of one: this reporter...
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Weekend bonus shot, 03.31.13
Pops, Berkeley, CA. Dad, not quite a year ago, in the Easter bonnet I got him. OK not bonnet, but that’s how we jokingly referred to it. Tried to get it on Easter, and the hat shop was closed (duh),...
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Scientific method
Watching the kids rummage around our backyard this past Sunday as they tracked down a few dozen plastic candy-filled easter eggs put me to mind of my daughter’s insatiable and scientific curiosity, as...
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Into the woods
We’ve spent the better part of a week up in the woods at a very generously loaned cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and in a brilliant display of irony, on the last night here, the WiFi kicks in....
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Welcome, Advocate readers!
Some of you may find yourself here after following a Google trail from the Advocate piece, “The New Lesbian Dad,” by Abby Dorsey, published earlier today. Welcome! (And old LD readers: hey, look! and...
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Driver’s seat
Yep, I’ve ridden in her car. As a passenger. And yep, she drives fast and doesn’t really spend a lot of time looking in the rear view mirror. Only when necessary.
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If you build it, they will come
Folks, I’ve arrived! That piece that came out in the Advocate earlier this week did indeed flush some detritus out from under the bushes. My first ad hominem homophobic attack (in seven years of...
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Weekend bonus shot (Monday edition), 04.15.13
View from below, Memorial Stadium, Berkeley, CA. I was heading to an event up there, on the balcony of the top floor of Cal’s remodeled Memorial Stadium, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Having...
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To Boston
Robert Indiana sculpture, W54th & 6th, NYC. Whenever I hear the sound of an ambulance, I pause and do a little tonglen. It’s a Buddhist meditation practice, intended to take in pain and send out...
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Face as canvas
Body crayon-faced boy on swing, Berkeley, CA. Courtesy his sister, who knows whereof she colors all over someone’s face, based on personal experimentation. I can’t say what in the Sam Hill they were...
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Weekend bonus shot, 05.12.13
Happy truck washer, Berkeley, CA. This time I convinced him to get outside the vehicle as I washed it (last time: he stayed inside and listened to a Sondheim musical). He had that huge spray nozzle...
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Godot, schmodot
Waiting for Mama, Berkeley, CA Mama went on a phenomenally unusual (for her) week-long meditation retreat last week. Since she gave birth to the first of these kids, she had never taken that much...
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