Author: Sam

First Winter Snow

Over 18 months since our last trip to the cabin, we ventured up yesterday afternoon ahead of an impending storm.  The sound of pounding rain […]

San Francisco Gets Giants Fever

It’s amazing what winning a World Series win can do to a city: homeless people all of a sudden turn into Major League merchandise peddlers, […]

Our Walkabout

Link to our other website cataloging our travels through Europe, Southeast Asia and around Australia during 2009 and 2010: Our Walkabout

On Hiatus

My wife and I are going to spend a little time away from the hustle and bustle and I’m thus going to have to put […]

Abalone Season Opening Day

Jerry and Paul took me out to one of their secret abalone spots north of Jenner yesterday for abalone season opening day.  Even though the […]

Dear A.I.G., I Quit!

The following is a letter sent on Tuesday by Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit, to Edward […]

How Starbucks Saved My Life

How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill This one is a bit of a feelgood tale, the story of a high-flying advertising executive born […]