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The Captain and Claire
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Category Archives: Personal
Loma Prieta Memory: Reading Pinter by Candlelight
(Note: I lived through Loma Prieta in 1989, which is now, incredibly, 30 years ago. The first section of this essay was written in 1999, on the 10th anniversary of the earthquake.) I’d been in San Francisco for a little over a … Continue reading
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Tagged earthquake, Loma Prieta, personal essay, San Francisco
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A Short Month, but an Exhausting One!
September was pretty exhausting! Due to a reshuffle at a magazine I work for, I was unexpectedly placed in a different role: copyediting rather than proofing. When I used to work for the Pacific Sun in San Rafael, I envied … Continue reading
A Pride Month Update
It’s Pride Month, and I have been fairly busy on the writing and self-publishing front. First, I just put A Knight’s Tale, Books 1 & 2, my LGBT medieval historical romances, on Smashwords; they can be found here. I’ll update … Continue reading
Some Thoughts on Charlottesville as the Eclipse Approaches
I don’t have anything particularly profound to say about the tragic events in Charlottesville this weekend except to say that my greatest fear after Trump was elected was that there would be blood in the streets. And so it has … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Kleon, Biden, chaos, Charlottesvile, Game of Thrones, havoc, Heather Heyer, nature, neo-Nazi, solar eclipse, Terry McAuliffe, Trump
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Now that we’re into the second month of the new presidency, I find myself feeling a mixture of emotions. Exhausted, first of all, as the pace of everything has speeded up. Enraged at wretched cabinet picks like DeVos–that’s a given. … Continue reading
Christmas
Christmas is here, a time of year when I feel inexplicably content and happy much of the time. As I’ve gotten older Christmas has become less about “getting stuff” and feasting, and more about memories. Somehow it all adds up … Continue reading
A Hell of a Year
2016 has been a hell of a year. It feels too soon to do a retrospective, but it’s been the kind of year where I uploaded a picture of a Facebook friend’s beautiful young dog running through some snowy woods … Continue reading
About last night…
Wow. A mixture of feelings here, but one predominates. After watching the increasingly grim CNN election footage for a number of hours and realizing that Hillary Clinton was not going to win, I went on Facebook and wrote, “I personally … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Maher, cnn, David Fredrickson, donald trump, Facebook, garrison keillor, grief, Hillary Clinton, hope, michael moore, presidential election 2016, spiritual, trauma, traumatic events
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Summer in California: Fire and Fog
It’s what used to be called high summer, but here in San Francisco we are socked in by heavy fog. The pattern of terrible California wildfires also continues. Here is a photo by Mike Blake of an emu running … Continue reading
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Tagged Emu, Fire, Fog, Hillary Clinton, Optimism, presidential election 2016, summer in California, Trump, wildfires
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A Happy Fourth…
I wanted to wish everyone out there in the US a happy Fourth of July! The weather is always chilly and foggy here in San Francisco. At night in our neighborhood, the air is filled with the sound of homemade rockets … Continue reading
Posted in LGBT, News, Personal, San Francisco, Self-publishing, Writing
Tagged Bill Maher, Brexit, clare ashton, connecting the dots, Elsie Street, Fourth of July, Free, Hillary Clinton, Kate Genet, Rainbow Shelf, Shannon Yarbrough, Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale, The Great British Baking Show, The Pull of Yesterday
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Gabriella West 