I love HBO. Been a fan now for a year and a half. I don't know how I've lived so long (sooooo long) without it. Last night I watched a new documentary put together by Rosie O'Donnell called A FAMILY IS A FAMILY IS A FAMILY. It consists of short interviews with young children about their take on what "family" means. The kids were cute, and very savvy. Of course, families run the gamut of possibilities -- inter-racial parents, single parents, moms and grandmothers, two moms, two dads, etc. Several kids spoke gleefully about being adopted. A girl at the end summed it up nicely, that your family is who tucks you in at night.

The show had great music, too. One song was about a girl who celebrates being an only child. She's never lonely because her parents play with her, and the uncles and aunts and cousins and grandparents come over to visit. Another eye-opening song was the girl who ponders what to do for her science project and then decides it should be about her -- she loves the fact that she was conceived in a laboratory dish. O the times, they are a-changin', eh? It was a fun show.

And the fun continues today as I ponder science up close and personal. (Not so personal as to create a new person -- pleeease!) I'm heading over to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, my first visit. It's around the corner from the art museum which is a favorite hang out of mine. They've got a special presentation on fractals going on that want to see, being the detail oriented person that I am. [A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole," a property called self-similarity. -- Thank you, Wikipedia.]