Argentina ( Read more... )

There's been discussion about how much a parent should play with their kids, and I'm posting this in support of all of you now involved in the "work" of raising kids. Any of my own offspring (and other family) can add their own perspective ( Read more... )

All right now, this is driving me nuts. I've got to set everybody straight (sounds like me, eh ( Read more... )

In the Outer Richmond district of San Francisco Monday. Car repair shop owned by an American of Chinese ancestry, whose wife (of same ancestry?) is feeding their Pekingese dog canned dog food with a spoon at her desk next to his. Very nice guy. Doesn’t try to sell me extra stuff. We’ll just do front brakes today ( Read more... )

I wrote this as a fuller response to RebbyRibs' post about girls and pink. You may want to reread her post and my first response ( Read more... )

A new infirmity! My carpal tunnel is yelling "Symptoms ( Read more... )

I came closer to death this week than I ever have before. Sitting at my computer ( Read more... )

Following here is a series of emails from yesterday, which I think are self-explanatory ( Read more... )

What a satisfying day. I had a visit with an old friend, who(m) I hadn't seen for about six years, a woman who lost her husband to cancer the same year as Karl died. Two "young widows" -- I had gone to graduate school with her husband -- we did ESL projects together -- and I was always touched by how he used to speak of her with such love and awe ( Read more... )

Yesterday, hours after the Bay to Breakers "race," I waited for the bus for a full 45 minutes -- after 30 minutes, the "we're strangers -- just happen to be waiting for the same bus" starts to evolve into "we're passengers on a sinking ship, folks, why don't we chat about it?" The other woman keeps checking the Muni website on her phone/computer ( Read more... )