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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 [...]
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…
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 [...]
I'm feeling restless. It's a different monster entirely to feel the burn of it, the itch, yearn, pull and draw of the desire to go and be on the road already – and be a mother. It's not like I can shrug my shoulders and toss things up to fate, sell everything I own again [...]
Family trip to the Mono Lake Basin, testing out the Grandby Pop Up Camper in preparation for the Pan Am Overland Trip to be taken in 2013
My One True Darling Man went out last week and bought us a “new” car. I love saying that because it sounds so capriciously luxurious, like, “hey! I know what we should do today: GO BUY A NEW CAR!” and go out and get some glisten. Of course that’s not how it happened, but it’s [...]
We live on an island off the coast of Oakland. I love saying that because it seems to conjure a radical blend of the stereotypes of Oakland (- gangs, big guns, ghetto housing) with something sweet and tropical. I even get a little caricature in my head when I say that I live on an [...]
