How you can help victims of the southern California fires

January 11, 2025
California-fires
The devastation wrought by this winter's California fires is horrific. The community and organizations across the globe immediately reached out to help, but they need your help, too. Fund are needed to feed workers on the ground, to feed, clothe and house displaced residents and for aid to...
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Leave a Comment · Blog, Inspiration

A century of shoes

April 10, 2024
shoes
Here's more from the Fashioning San Francisco: a Century of Style, the retrospective of San Francisco fashion that opened at the deYoung Museum in February. These...
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8 Comments · Blog, Stylin'

If aliens came down…

April 9, 2024
aliens
If aliens dropped in on us today, they'd have questions. Oh, would they have questions. Here are a few: Why do so many women look alike, with crazy-smooth skin,...
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6 Comments · Blog, Opinion

The beauty of Botticelli

April 5, 2024
Botticelli
Sometimes, an artist brings his era alive in such a beautiful and vivid way that you're left wanting more. Such is the case with Botticelli, whose drawings (and some...
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9 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Reviews

When the world is dark, the doctor prescribes a frothy podc

April 3, 2024
podcast
Podcasts. A strange hybrid of radio show and blogpost. Since I don't have an Iphone, I wasn't really sure how to access podcasts at first. Then, I realized that...
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3 Comments · Blog, Opinion

End-of-life: an unavoidable topic

March 27, 2024
end-of-life
Let's face it: no one likes to consider their death.  Few things are as sensitive (and downright scary) to some as discussions with loved ones about end-of-life...
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8 Comments · Inspiration, Spirituality

A visit to the toxic cesspool that was/is Twitter/X

March 25, 2024
toxic-cesspool
When Musk began his overbearing behavior after his new purchase of the site formerly known as Twitter, I deleted my account. I wasn't ever much of a Twitter user, to...
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14 Comments · Opinion

The day we lost our innocence

March 19, 2024
innocence
We were all young like this once... our faces reflecting the innocence common to all children. What I wouldn't give for some of that now. Watching JFK: One Day in...
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8 Comments · Blog, Opinion

Power player, playboy, predator

March 15, 2024
Hefner
Playboy Playmates of the Month--the girls next door, or so we were told. Beautiful. Innocent. Sweet. But is that how they were treated? Back in the day, I...
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8 Comments · Blog, Opinion

Is transactional giving truly giving?

March 13, 2024
open-heart
In the shower the other morning I wondered what exactly it means to be a giver. Sure, lots of people give. And a big proportion of that number identify as givers. But...
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4 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion

Spring forward with our bloggers

March 10, 2024
Did you spring forward? Yep, it's already time to lose an hour and enjoy more sunshine, at least for a while). Our weather in the Bay area is going to be nice this...
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2 Comments · Blog

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