The Rush of History

San Francisco is always at its best in late September and early October. This year is no exception. While I’ve been riding up and down the hills and going about my daily life, history is rushing along, as it is wont to do. There are the big stories of the Iraq quagmire, the Plamegate scandal […]

Twin Peaks and a Phat Farm

I’ve taken to big bike rides up the steepest hills around. Lately, I’ve been heading to the top of Twin Peaks a couple of times a week, up and down Potrero Hill, McLaren Park, Bernal Heights, Nob Hill and even Hawk Hill. Here’s a photo I took standing at the top of Hawk Hill in […]

Multitude

Been out of the blogging mood for a couple of weeks. Partly it’s getting glued to the news from New Orleans (my friends Natasha and Todd went down to the Algiers neighborhood with dough and their skills and are helping at the Common Ground medical clinic) and partly it was just a rocky couple of […]