Archive for October, 2007



Special Cousin and Special Auntie dote on the lil’ peanut, while the lil’ monkey takes flight.
You just never know, is the thing.
Ever so many years ago I was a college freshman, worried on the one hand about living away from home in a big smelly student co-op, yet thrilled on the other by […]

Fall harvest (at the Edible Schoolyard), Berkeley, CA.

ENDA action ongoing

Is this legible? If not, just go to Bellini’s Here and Now VLOG Blog to get the scoop. This evening he’s posting an interview he did this afternoon with NGLTF’s Matt Forman on the strategic questions regarding to include T, or not to include T, or how to include T, if to […]

At right, from Mama’s cellphone camera: Sister lords it over the brother at the YMCA’s Kindergym.
First the bad news: I cannot report on it today, because I missed yesterday’s symposium on the 21st Century Family, hosted by Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. I could blame myself, but I’d rather blame a cascading […]


The Greater Good Science Center is “devoted to the scientific understanding of happy and compassionate individuals, strong social bonds, and altruistic behavior.” As a member of the extended Univesity of California, Berkeley family as an alum and a sometime staffer, I’ve known about the center’s work for some time, going back […]

Doting auntie (teething nephew), Berkeley, CA.