Archive for the 'From the vault' Category



This archival pic’s from last fall’s Halloween Block Party. She’s chilling, you know, in between terrorizing people with her fierce dragon breath or what have you. Slightly (but not that much) more revealing angle of fierce dragon action here. O, what I could do with a costume like that, in the right […]

Lil’ monkey, nearly two years ago. Now this pose is her brother’s. (With doggie now an angel at his shoulder.)
Busy Baba, with
No time to write a blog post,
Punts with old photo.
[And Happy Passover, for those of you celebrating!]

Max, Jr. October ?, 1993 – March 19, 2007. [Photo taken: September 8, 2006.]
You’ll never know how much baby-generated dinner table detritus your dog is taking care of until she’s gone. Though you’ll probably know how much you love her before then.
I miss her every single day.
The lil’ monkey’s family portraits still include […]

Phillie Avengers step off from the Bryant Park staging area for the Dyke March, New York City, 23 June 1994.
Happy International Women’s Day, people (with love and solidarity, from the dusty LD black & white print archive).

“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?)

Waiting for Godot Mama.
Given the number of rehearsals she’s seen with kids singing and dancing to beat the band, it will basically be a miracle if we manage to keep her off the stage. Mama, after all, is Artistic Director of a local youth music theater company. Ergo, reasons the lil’ […]

When she’s all grown up, will she remember the Music Together class, where the sweet guy leading it has accomodatingly woven in “Hello, to the Babas,” after he’s sung “Hello, to the Mamas” and “Hello, to the Daddies”? I hope so.
What if instead she remembers the didgeridoo at the Farmer’s Market?
And if […]