Continue Reading Under the Surface When you walk through the streets and alleys of San Francisco’s China Town you are engulfed in a riot of colors, sounds…
Continue Reading Bay Area Visions Today I thought it would be fun to juxtapose the looming architecture of San Francisco’s Financial District with an extraordinary building I…
Continue Reading L’Shanah Tovah Happy New Year to my friends and family who celebrate this new beginning – let’s hope the year 5780 allows for a…
Continue Reading Necessity We should reframe the old adage “It takes a village to raise a child.” A more urgent summons is needed during a…
Continue Reading PDX Friday Telling the stories in pictures today (and a link to OPB’s summary of the climate rally.) So many youths participated, so much energy,…
Continue Reading Global Climate Strike Today is the start day of the Global Climate Strike week. We don’t know how big it is going to be, but…
Continue Reading New Bedford “I now find that I could have landed in no other part of the United States, where I should have found a…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: PAAM Let’s face it: when I visit a museum showing contemporary art these days I might be challenged, made to think, dumb-founded, or…
Continue Reading 46 Years It has been 46 years yesterday since the murder of Victor Jara by the Chilean military police. The singer who put Neruda’s…
Continue Reading Traversing NYC The best way to explore NYC is, of course, on foot. When that becomes too much, you can explore alternatives. I’d…