Pilar, my daughter, and I took the ferry from Oakland to San Francisco to see SF-MOMA’s fabulous Matisse exhibit. We are both big fans. The exhibit showed and told us how Matisse changed how we see and think of art. We also learned that the shipping cranes that many of us think … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2026
Interfaith Climate Gathering
South Bay Interfaith’s Climate Gathering. We met at San Jose’s First Unitarian Church to find ways we all could help halt climate change: Unitarians, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians. Strength in numbers! We met to help pass CA state climate … [Read more...]
A Killer of a Walk
Michelle Chouinard led a number of us mystery writers on an eye-opening walk of San Francisco’s Jackson Square area. We learned that we were walking atop land fill studded with dozens of buried wooden sailing ships. Chouinard told chilling, sometimes crazy tales of murder and … [Read more...]


