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Child Safety: I’d like to be able to just let my kids roam freely. But my daughter Moxie figured out a way to escape recently. She took her brother’s stool, put it under the door, unlocked the slide lock turned the handle, walked down the flight of stairs and slipped under the gate to go [...]
People talk about San Francisco all the time. They left their heart there, they sit by the dock there. San Francisco is a great little city; I get it. But personally, my heart really belongs to Oakland. I love Oakland. I love it’s lack of pretense. I love it’s rough edges. I love the strong [...]
My One True Darling Man, Mikey and I are both third culture kids. I say that I am in my little bio on this homepage, and a bit in the “About Me” piece, but it’s worthwhile to kind of take a bite out of what that whole term, “Third Culture Kid” means – especially since [...]
Making a big life change is pretty scary. But you know what’s even scarier? Regret. Pan Am Overland, baby. It’s one freakin’ huge, gigantic, colossal, enormous (help me out here: more adjectives for “big” please)____________ change. It’s change on a level that is enough to send most people to therapy which is why I suppose [...]
If I could move into an aquarium, I would. I’d take my family too, of course. The only problem is that the fish might not be cool with our cooking ‘em after looking at ‘em…
First world problems: It’s impossible not to laugh as we remember our own chip/dip quandries of taking ourselves and our meager little lives and problems too seriously. Only, well, I kind of do feel sorry for First World Problems. With a real problem – something hard and flesh biting of the sort you find in [...]
When we were up in Humboldt last week, we all went for a walk in the Lady Bird Johnson Grove. This is a great little trail to walk with kids – it’s also completely accessible (wheelchair and stroller friendly; lots of benches niftily perked throughout for people that need breaks). The thing about redwoods is [...]
…So, I’ve been depressed again. It wasn’t just the IEP meeting – that was kind of the whipped cream, chocolate sauce and cherry on the sundae that was already built. I don’t know…it seems to me that I’m dealing less and less well with the Bay Area. I’m really grateful for the water [...]
Ugh. That awkward moment of running to the store in a swift frenzy of waddling post-partum action, desperate to buy a few groceries while my Mom has two of the kids. The baby starts screaming as we walk through the automatically opening doors – just as I realize the store has been completely re-arranged, the [...]
My One True Darling and I are both from the San Francisco Bay Area. I was born here (4th generation), he wasn't, but he spent more time actually living here. We are third culture kids – raised abroad in cultures different from our parent's own – but the San Francisco area is where we have [...]
