Our Mother’s Day expedition was to the newly reinstalled Oakland Museum. We loved it, and I spent some time composing a post about it in my head, planning to write it up about now. Imagine my surprise at finding that Jon Carroll somehow entered my personal brain and extracted the entire post, and I don’t just mean he liked it too, I mean one detail after another from the sidewalk in front to the improvised café to his reactions to the exhibits. So my post is as follows: what he said.