Chronology

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

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 […]

Escape

Escape, Carolyn Jessop I read Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven a few years ago and was absolutely dumbstruck by the existence and far-reaching […]