Every baby has a personal lullaby—that one song that, no matter what the circumstance, seems to soothe them when they’re having issues (or “tame the wild beast,” whatever your perspective might be).
For L, that song is “Happy Talk,” from the 1949 Broadway musical, “South Pacific.”
It’s all her mother’s fault, really. My wife is a not-so-closeted [...]

So we got back from Hawaii on Wednesday (more on the trip later this week). And we drove straight from the Oakland airport to Berkeley, where I dropped off Powergirl for a four-day conference she was chairing.
With simple math you can deduce that this schedule left me as a single-parent for the better part of [...]