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Apr 3, 2025: Lovely Article on Tony Corten’s Public Memorial In case this one also gets paywalled, I am reproducing it here: www.coastsidenews.com/community… Coastside News: ‘Rest well, my dear friend’ …
Mar 31, 2025: A Beautiful Memorial for Tony Corten Yesterday, the Pacifica schools community pulled together, with the help of Kelley and all of our friends, to hold the public memorial for our good …
Mar 29, 2025: What I Learned During My First Year of E-Bike Commuting I got an e-bike and started commuting to work about a year ago, and I’m sharing what I learned along the way, in case it’s of use to someone …
Mar 27, 2025: A Requiem for South by Southwest For a decade, Adam and I went to South by Southwest for music every year. It was where we did most of our music discovery for the year. For those who …
Mar 26, 2025: Rules for Bicyclists that Apparently Need to be Articulated Go with the walk signal. It’s the law in California that bikes can go with the pedestrian “walk” signal. Don’t just sit there until the green light …
Mar 17, 2025: How to Make Perfect Homemade Ice Cream During the beginning of COVID lockdown, I started making homemade ice cream. But, like most homemade ice cream, it wasn’t that great! I LOVE ice …
Mar 16, 2025: How I Learned to Manage my Lifelong Insomnia NOTE: I published this elsewhere 10 years ago, on a platform that is now mostly defunct, so thought I would share it again here. I’ve updated it a …
Mar 15, 2025: What We Talk About When We Talk About Perimenopause I never learned about perimenopause. I knew that women experienced symptoms when they went through menopause, which I thought of us as being a time in …
Mar 10, 2025: Lemon Tree Versus the Rats I learned recently that San Francisco is becoming overrun with rats. This SFGate piece was literally titled “Infinity of Rats." Here is a story on San …
Mar 9, 2025: Coastside News Article on Tony Corten The local Pacifica news outlet ran a very nice piece on my good friend Tony Corten, who recently passed away very unexpectedly. I’m told that it has …
Mar 9, 2025: Stopping to Smell the Flowers and Memento Mori I like to take pictures of flowers. It’s easy: They don’t move, they look pretty, and the macro setting on the iPhone is almost as good as the real …
Mar 6, 2025: A New Home for the CCSF Olmec Head The Olmec were an ancient civilization in Mexico that thrived from around 1200-400 BCE. They were one of the first major civilizations in the region, …
Mar 6, 2025: Hummingbird Nest Update! This is them a week or so ago: And this is them today: They are turning into real live adult hummingbirds! I expect them to leave the nest in the next …
Mar 5, 2025: How I Chose My E-Bike I’ve been asked this many times over the past year or so, so I thought I’d write it all out here so I can just send the link to people. The first …
Mar 4, 2025: This Could Be Valencia Street But You Playin’ I bike to work on my fantastic Gazelle Arroyo C5 ebike, which I love, and my commute involves riding the length of Valencia Street. Unlike a lot of …
Mar 3, 2025: So You've Decided You Want Bangs If you decide that you want bangs for the first time in probably 30 years, the first thing you should do is go to a professional hairstylist. What you …
Mar 2, 2025: How to Successfully Run a Book Club My book club started in 2007, and when I talk to people about it, they often say something like “I had a book club but we just stopped meeting,” etc., …
Feb 28, 2025: My First (Accidental) Greyhound I’ve had whippets all of my adult life. My primary goal, when I was younger, was to save up enough money to buy a house so that I could have a dog. I …
Feb 27, 2025: Hummingbird Nest I learned a lot about hummingbirds a couple years ago, when we had a nest in the yard that was very easy to look into. I was so excited to see the …
Feb 27, 2025: Hello, World. Goodbye, Tony. For a long time now, I’ve wished I had a user-friendly way to write mostly-text blog posts, given that most platforms of that type disappeared years …