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Pajama party, Berkeley, CA.

The careful observer will note: that’s no shovel, that’s a mirror. Atsa my monkey!
The other day my sister’s son and I joined my daughter out in her office, a place known to others simply as the backyard sandbox. She received us with barely a nod, so engaged was she in her work filling […]

Musical accompaniment by Miss Ethel Waters.

Sunday morning, Berkeley, CA.

Young and old girlies, first posted in July 2006.

A David Hockney-esque collage of vignettes, some forty-eight hours out.
At the dinner table, cradling my son in the crook of my left arm, looking half the time at his latch on the bottle of expressed Mama milk, half the time at the vast gulf of emptiness just beyond his head, the spot where Maxi would […]

Dog park, day after.
Max, Jr., October ?, 1993 - March 19, 2007.
Also answered to: Maxer, Maxi, Maxi Pad; Boo, Boodley, Boodly-Boo, Boolie-o; Doo, Doodley-Doo, Doolie-o; Snook, Snookey, Snooka-Book; and Hey! Look! We dropped something! Right there!
Eulogy/paen to follow, in due time. Many thanks for your kindnesses.
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