Continue Reading Looks about Right The Changing Light By Lawrence Ferlinghetti The changing light at San Francisco is none of your East Coast…
Continue Reading Apropos The Mask of the Red Death By Edgar Allan Poe (Published 1842) The red death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever…
Continue Reading Crows, Pursued. I have written about crows before, describing my fascination with and admiration for corvids. Les Corbeaux New research results have the birds back on…
Continue Reading MaestraPeace The Women’s Building in the Mission district features one of the most frequently visited murals in all of San Francisco. Panoramic photo…
Continue Reading Kingdomtide The last book I recommended, in April no less, was Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King. It has made it onto the Booker…
Continue Reading Closing the Circle Yesterday we observed Yom Kippur, a day that always strikes a strange balance between finality and renewal. The end and the beginning…
Continue Reading Move those feet! Done with doom. To end the week on something uplifting, let’s turn to the current wave of people all over the world dancing…
Continue Reading The Death of The Heart On my way to the car I walked by this building on 4th St yesterday, after the announcement that the Grand Jury…
Continue Reading Good intentions, predictable outcomes. Three days before his accident my son moved into his new digs on the Bay side of San Francisco. The neighborhood is…
Continue Reading It all depends on your perspective. Almost half a century ago, in 1975, The Boston Review published an interview with Susan Sontag about writing, photography and memory. As…
