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“That’s all I’ll watch. Only thiiiiiiiiiis much.”
(Archival photo — diapers a give-a-way — of the lil’ monkey trying to wheedle her way in front of Sound of Music yet again. Or was it Mary Poppins?)

From Dr. King’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10, 1964:

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.
I refuse to accept the idea that the “is-ness” of man’s present […]

(Just can’t resist) fiddling with the big sister’s stuff, Berkeley, CA.

[Don’t even get me started. I’m as corny as Kansas in August, high as a flag on the Fourth of July. If you’ll excuse an expression I use, I’m in love, I’m in love, I’m in love, I’m in love, I’m in love with a wee little guy! And so on with […]

And everybody has their organic pear and mango baby food all up in their hair.
I know what you’re saying: People pay big money for hair treatments like this in fancy spas coast to coast.
Okay, maybe just on the coasts.
Okay, maybe just in L.A.

At right: Fig. A. The Triangle of Safety at work.
All’s I’m sayin’ is, it’s not like the moment she started peeing directly into the toilet — rather than into the bazillionth, or the bazillion-and-oneth diaper that I fastened onto her — everything was suddenly all peaches and cream. In my haste to schedule a […]

San Francisco Chronicle photo of filmmaker Ann Hershey by Liz Hafalia
Documentary filmmaker Annie Hershey’s long-awaited film about the life and work of writer-activist Tillie Olsen will be making its Bay Area debut tonight, on what would have been Olsen’s ninety-sixth birhtday. She died on New Year’s Day a year ago.

A Heart in Action […]