My first morning in San Francisco, I awoke in the dark, somewhat neurotic and crazed, at about 4:00. I had been dreaming about wandering the streets of this unfamiliar city throughout the night. My companions were River and his brother Noah, who were jovially skateboarding everywhere we went, and Pedraum Pardehpoosh, a Palo Alto resident […]
While in San Francisco over the weekend for a series of Web development meetings, I had a chance to meet up with Michelle. She and I go way back. We first met on a mutual friend’s front porch in 1979, when our parents were strategizing which public magnet school we would attend in Pittsburgh. As […]
I spent a while in my backyard this afternoon raking, scraping, digging and picking up. The yard looks horrible but it’s a major improvement on this time last year, when there was probably four times the amount of buried (and bare) trash among the tree-weeds and plaster-dirt.
Behind the garage, there is a narrow alley of […]
Aside from grooving to local bands Winterpills and Spouse recently, I have been unable-to-get-enough of my cousin Josh’s band, Tapes ‘n Tapes.
Their debut “The Loon” was released last November, in time for family members to get a CD in their Christmas stockings, and only now am I getting around to listening to it. (I was […]
Today’s the Bahá’í New Year—Naw Ruz. It’s a happy time. It’s a time for folks to suspend work and school activities and instead come together in fellowship, preferably over food after all that fasting, and savor the flavors of whatever the new year will bring.
Taking the day off from work and school is not always […]
Every couple of hours, our entire plan shifts and changes. So I realized there’s not much point in attaching to anything at all. Well, maybe I knew that already, but what I mean is there’s little benefit in having solid plans beyond what I’m doing at the moment and where I might need to be, […]
Thanks to Mojan’s link to this create-your-own South Park character thingie, I have wasted at least one full morning twiddling around. But at least River and I look a whole lot better in these than we do in real life.
I am glad to see news that reinforces the idea that women in labor are the ones who often know best what to do about being in labor.
There is nothing like having the urge to push, and being told not to push, to dehumanize a person, and potentially foul up a birth. Also, being told […]
I had a chance to visit the Big Castle over the weekend. I think it’s time this place had an official name. It’s big enough to warrant its own address. The neighbor, up the hill, upon spying its construction on my parents’ lakefront property, had contacted a building inspector. The inspector ambled over one day […]