How was your week? We spent the week getting re-acclimated to San Francisco after a couple weeks traveling off and…

March 27, 2015

I’ve been making my way through “At Home: A Short History of Private Life” by Bill Bryson this past month,…

March 25, 2015

A friend is working her way through Marie Kondo’s book and so I’ve recently had a lot of conversations about…

March 24, 2015

Ikea even surprised me this time. When you log onto Pottery Barn Kids, Land Of Nod, Restoration Hardware baby&child, and…

February 11, 2015

I keep hearing about this book everywhere, from people with a cultish gleam in their eye. Have you read it?…

January 15, 2015

My, my what an exhausting week. After a few weeks of illness then a few weeks of holiday nesting, Bean…

January 9, 2015

I’d say January is a good time to talk about what everyone does with all these toys. We have a limited…

January 7, 2015

  (Outtake from last year. Bean was newly crawling and had no patience for her stupid parents. Every shot was…

December 2, 2014

The depressing thing about sticky, loud doors… is that it’s likely caused by more than one problem. DRATS. But, you…

November 20, 2014

(I first titled this “How to Find a Stud.” Now, that’d be a different kind of website.) Ready? 1. Grab…

November 6, 2014

When Dave and I moved into our apartment, we had A) no idea rents in our neighborhood would double in…

November 3, 2014

***UPDATE***: This map has been updated as of December 3, 2015, following GeoCommons going dark. The above link will take…

November 9, 2012

In my quest to get anyone who visits SF to venture out of the Union Square-Chinatown-North Beach-Fisherman’s Wharf tourist zone,…

October 30, 2012