Empire State Building, New York, NY. Second in a twelve-part series of recent images of New York, in anticipation of the upcoming conference there. (For wee context, see first in the mini-series.)

Subway car in motion, New York, New York. Thus beginneth a twelve-day photo series counting down to BlogHer ’12, because: hey! It’s a way to keep on posting! Commentary on this image: whenever possible, which now means whenever I don’t have a work engagement which entails my being sped to

Youth Music Theater Company’s West Side Story rehearsal (“America”), Berkeley, CA. There just may be more than one of these. I Tweeted some of these that day (July 4; a holiday for me for work, and what did the kids want to do? be inside at Mama’s rehearsal). Girlchild mostly