Some time back I came to an awakening, an epiphany: White is the new black and visa versa! When a politician speaks, I have to run those words through a translator that turns them to the exact opposite to get the truth. The rich are the job creators? Not according to Nick Hanauer, a self [...]

I brought forward several issues in my post last week, Thinking About Attending Bob Jones University? Don’t!, that I find of great concern about that institution. Three of the four broader issues are*: Sexism Racism Homophobia The focus of this post is what all three of these issues have in common. I begin by sharing [...]

Sausalito has an annual film festival. I went to a film last Saturday: The Big Fix. I highly recommend it, but wait until you’re in a mood to totally get enraged. It’s a documentary about the BP Gulf oil spill and horrible cover up that continues to go on to this day. The film’s directors [...]

After 2 days of fog, I shot this with my little iPhone up at Cavallo Point this afternoon. The walk up the steep hill in the gutsy, gusty, cool breeze/wind was tremendously invigorating. I absolutely feast on the cool air from the Pacific Ocean. The beauty of the bay area just feeds my soul.

Lately, I’ve had this idea on my mind, for some reason: if something is too big too fail, I think it already has failed. And this applies to so much more than just the banking industry. In fact, at the moment, I can’t think of anything to which it doesn’t apply. Yes, we need efficiency; [...]

Having lived here for 5 months, I’m finding the small town of Sausalito and the surrounding area to be a fascinating place to live. Manhattan Beach was very cookie cutter. Everybody was so much the same. Sausalito, filled with character and characters, is anything but! City Manager A few weeks back I had the opportunity [...]

Don’t. I have seldom discussed the fact that I have 2 degrees from @BJU. But I do. While at the institution I was largely oblivious to its racist history. (For god’s sake: I learned recently that I even lived in a dorm named after the Grand Cyclops of the Montgomery chapter of the Ku Klux Klan: [...]

And, for the waiting masses: The Kitchen and Dining Room Pano!

Several years ago we were on a boating excursion out of Seward, exploring the fjords of Resurrection Bay in Alaska. It was cold, and generally hazy/foggy. One woman on the boat was drinking like there would be no tomorrow. She was very friendly and outgoing, and, as it turned out, was the first one to [...]

Well, it’s taken a really long time*, but here is the living room pano. The room is not completely finished: you know, always a work in progress. But for now at least, it’s mostly done. We just need to find that perfect thing to hang over the fireplace. We decided that since the house is [...]

Last night I shot the Spring Concert of the Corte Madera Town Band. Here’s a short video slideshow of the evening. The photos are in random order. Want to watch this on your iPad or iPhone? Touch this link. Shooting moving objects in indoor light without a flash (so as not to distract the performers [...]

Too cute!

And he often knew well how to drive it home. Conservatives say if you don’t give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. Then they say as for the poor, they’ve lost all incentive because we’ve given them too much money.” ––George Carlin

Two of them actually visited, but this deer was the closest to the window in the dining room. When he saw me, he was remarkably curious.

I say it over and over again: Are we creating a future we will actually want to live in in this country? The American people are too preoccupied and fractured to address some hyper-critical decisions that are being quietly made with such significant long term implications. It all started with the funding of security cameras [...]

I’ve noticed that GE has been pumping very persuasive, emotional advertising into the air waves: the GE factory workers who made the MRI machines meet with the cancer survivors whose lives have been saved by the machines. Yadda, yadda, yadda… I wondered for a second: Why are they spending so much in advertising, especially on [...]

Thanks, everyone, for the calls, voicemails, Facebook messages, emails, birthday cards and gifts wishing me a happy birthday! Who ever would have thought I would live to be this old?!! The birthday celebration rituals began the day before my birthday with dinner at the restaurant, Paul K. As a starter, I highly recommend the seafood [...]