(above is from “Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective”, now at the de Young.) Dave and I just got to…

May 17, 2016

What are all of you up to this weekend? We’re all recovering from Dave’s work travel the past couple weeks,…

May 6, 2016

Has anyone else started watching “Mozart in the Jungle” since it racked up at the Golden Globes? I just started…

March 23, 2016

Did everyone make it through the week? Oh, first week of January, you are ever so long. This is the…

January 8, 2016

Happy Birthday to my Dave today. This photo was taken 10 years ago, on our first trip together (to Saguaro National Park).…

October 23, 2015

WE JUST SAW WHALES. BREACHING. OFF THE COAST OF FORT FUNSTON. LIFE IS AFFIRMED ALL IS WELL. THAT WAS SPECTACULAR.…

July 31, 2015

Well, what turned out to be preschool week is over. Thank the lord. We’ve toured, we’ve inquired, we’ve judged lunch…

July 24, 2015

And winter has descended on us here in San Francisco. On the one hand, SO COLD. On the other, I…

May 29, 2015

One thing I underestimated when I became a stay-at-home-mom is how very lovely Fridays would still feel. I still count…

May 8, 2015

What do you all have planned for the weekend? Dave and I will be celebrating out sixth wedding anniversary this…

April 24, 2015

We are still in Portland. Bean and I are too busy buying up all of Powell Books to write up…

March 2, 2015

Bean’s room is scheduled to get torn up in T minus 15 minutes (a window is getting replaced). So, let me…

January 27, 2015

After 173 pedestrian deaths in New York last year, the city implemented Vision Zero, a wide ranging list of actions…

November 5, 2014

There is no question that New York is amazing.  There is truly nothing else like it in the U.S.  San…

June 21, 2011

It only took a half day in New York for me to matter-of-factly decide that I wouldn’t be getting on…

June 2, 2011