We picked up the San Francisco Bay Guardian yesterday and it happened to be their “Best Of” issue. Thank God we found it because we had no idea how many interesting things there are to do in this city. This is what Sam is doing Monday while I take Ruby to the rooftop carousel at [...]
This picture was taken by my friend Jamie using her Nikon D300 while she was here on vacation with her family. All I can say is it would have been way cuter if she’d used a canon 40D. But whatever. You have to work with what you got, right? This will have to suffice. We’re [...]
Thanks to a perfect storm created by too many ballot initiatives, dipwad voters, Proposition 13 and Republicans so steeped in ideology that they’d rather watch the world’s eighth largest economy tank than—God forbid!—compromise, or worse yet, embrace some sort of socialistic shared sacrifice, California is officially in the shitter. But we got sunshine! And majestic [...]
I went out for drinks with the girls tonight and came home to this: This is especially extra adorably good. And totally worth all those nights when she didn’t sleep. Especially after a bottomless glass of wine and good conversation and no judgment when I admitted—to my embarassment—that I’m reading the wholly horrible “Twilight.” I’m [...]
I love Ross Ching’s time-lapse videos (my friend Nathan Gibbs turned me onto them a couple of years ago…check out his Eclectic series). I also love Death Cab for Cutie. Imagine how much I must love the combo of the two. Enjoy! Death Cab for Cutie – Little Bribes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.
“Old MacDonald had a Mommy, eeee-ay, eeee-ay, oh. With a talktalk here and a talktalk there. Here a talk, there a talk, everywhere a talktalk. Old MacDonald had a Mommy, eeee-ay, eeee-ay, taaaaaaaallllllk!”
I’ve been following this story of the black students from Creative Steps Day Camp in Philadelphia for a couple of days now and like what these Harvard grad students have to say about it. One of the most disturbing parts of the whole thing—which they do not mention in their blog post but which Tim [...]
I decided to go into work a little later than usual because I’d stayed late the day before and because, with imminent pay cuts, my attitude is sour and because I needed to blow off a little steam and, frankly, because I could. I dropped my kid at school and headed to the gym, where [...]
Real questions I received from grown adults during a 24-hour period this past weekend. Ruby was within earshot for all of them: “Adoption? That is so wonderful! I want to adopt my 20-year old maid. I love her but I don’t know how to adopt her.” “Why is her skin black and yours isn’t?” “Do [...]