My apartment building has a roof access. It’s a three story building in a low part of the city, and you can’t see the ocean from the roof, but you can see over plenty of rooftops.
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Another Perfect Saturday. Showing Up
“I am so incredibly lucky”, I thought, having scaled the last hill, Santa Clara Ave to Monterey Blvd, only 3 downhill miles of the City Loop left, and it wasn’t even noon yet. Continue reading “Another Perfect Saturday. Showing Up”
Love Letter to the Work Commute, in Pictures
Taking a bike to work turns most of the commute into a pleasant holiday (and, secondarily, a justification to renounce the gym)
About half way into the 7.5 mile bike ride, it looks like this and it smells like eucalipti
On the land side, there are trees…
…and grasses
… and bucolic views
On the bay side, I ride by a marina
Sail boats go out on a sunny day, San Francisco in the background
Marine layer sometimes cuddles the earth…
..or teases San Bruno Mountain
…or slithers with Canada geese, as the sun gets ready to rise on a winter morning
Not to be taken for granted.
Stories are Monsters. Part 2 (of 3), with Side Notes
This is Part 2 of a series about the monstrous stories we live with. Link to Part 1 is here.
Before I proceed, a side note: as I wrote this Monsters series, I came across this somewhat related post on learned helplessness by another blogger. It’s more scientific than my ramblings here, not like there is a competition 🙂 . And now…
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Mac-n-Cheese
Our second stop for Nina’s birthday dinner is a possibly overrated and definitely overcrowded bakery in the Mission. It’s a chilly Sunday twilight though, so we manage to find sitting at a communal table for all six of us together. Somebody mentions this new chocolate place in Palo Alto. Somebody mentions that new mac-n-cheese place in Oakland. St John speculates that with this trend for highly specialized places, soon there will be a place that serves Continue reading “Mac-n-Cheese”
