Continue Reading The Holocaust Memorial, San Francisco. All you see is a male torso seemingly looking out from behind barbed wire, when you approach on foot. No signs, no…
Continue Reading The De Young Museum (2) So much for good intentions. I really mean to keep my prejudices in check, but when I learned many months ago that…
Continue Reading The De Young Museum (1) So much for good intentions. The plan for the de Young museum building to turn – literally – bright green in color…
Continue Reading The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco Other than my son’s and my apartment, the doctor’s office and the pharmacy, I have not been anywhere inside a building in…
Continue Reading Yerba Buena Gardens In what seems another lifetime, I used to go to San Francisco for psychology conferences, or to attend the opera, or, as…
Continue Reading Antidote I, for one, find the kind of hedging, waffling, side-stepping, equivocating, prevaricating, stalling and evading we have witnessed in the last few…
Continue Reading Teaching history. Two nights ago, purportedly enraged about what Columbus Day represents, some protesters in Portland, OR, toppled two statues in a city park…
Continue Reading Decoy I haven’t touched politics on this blog in a while, partly because my brain’s average speed is slow-motion these days, and partly…
Continue Reading Look Forwards, Stockholm Yesterday poet Louise Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. On the positive side, a great decision in favor of…
Continue Reading The World speaks to Us Next time you’re bored, or uneasy, or need to entertain the (grand)kids during the umpteenth hour of self-isolation I suggest you try…
