Tag Archives: Bay Area

Friday Things Considered: The Independence Day Edition

U.S. Flag

Though I was raised in the ruby red heart of the Rocky Mountain West, I live in midnight blue territory. With friends and family on both sides of the political spectrum, my own leanings tend to a more moderate shade of rosy periwinkle. But I was genuinely happy about how the Supreme Court decisions played [...]

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Marco? Polo!

Swimming Pool - Oakland, CA

“Summer afternoon. . .the two most beautiful words in the English language.” (Henry James)   

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Friday Things Considered: The In-N-Out Edition

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I just dropped my son off at the airport and headed straight to In-N-Out burger.  He’d hoped to do one last run before he got on the plane, but time was tight and traffic was bad.  So he made his flight and I made one last stop on the “Eat Like A Twenty-Two Year Old” [...]

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Friday Things Considered: The Stephen Curry Edition

Baseball Player Stencil by Francesca Cole

Not much of a sports fan, I can barely distinguish the Final Four from the Fourth Quarter. Case in point. . . This week while having my teeth cleaned I heard a round of applause just outside the exam room door.  The dental staff is usually pretty supportive of my flossing technique, but I’ve never [...]

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Sacred Spaces

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco

I spent much of Saturday walking on holy ground.  First in the East Bay hills, next in another faith’s church, and finally, in a basketball gym. Sacred spaces all. I was up in the hills for a memorial service was held on a private ranch overlooking Contra Costa county.  A dozen of us gathered to [...]

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Where Have All The Roses Gone?

Sterling Silver rose

Speaking of birthdays.  In a few days it will be my middle daughter’s birthday and that means it’s time to go hunting for a rose for Sydney Rose.  Her dad picked out the very first birthday rose when she was a baby.  ”Bewitched,”  a beautiful clear-pink hybrid tea, captured this spellbinding strawberry-blonde daughter perfectly. Every [...]

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Friday Things Considered

Deborah Madison and Kathryn Pritchett at Camino Restaurant, Oakland 4/18/13

The night that Boston police were shooting it up with the Tsarnaev brothers, I was at our favorite restaurant Camino celebrating vegetables.  Renowned cookbook author Deborah Madison was in town and Camino was hosting a dinner for Madison with a menu inspired by the recipes from her new cookbook Vegetable Literacy.  I’d like to tell [...]

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San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2013

SFDS Living Room - Catherine Kwong

Look for an extensive overview of the San Francisco Decorator Showcase in the Bay Area News Group papers this Saturday, but in the meantime here’s a peak at design elements that felt fresh and noteworthy this year. Contemporary Art as Inspiration Check out the Cy Twombly inspired floors in Catherine Kwong’s living room, above.  See those [...]

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Friday Things Considered

Stone Angel - Mountain View Cemetery

My Boston kids are on lockdown and I’m locked on to news sites again.  What a crazy, distressing week this has been. I’ve been so grateful for peaceable things this week, including several walks through Mountain View cemetery where I saw how the quality of light can change everything.  Like the way this stone angel’s [...]

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Friday Things Considered

Astronauts explain the B612 Project

Picking up from last Friday’s post—a mama racoon died unexpectedly right here beneath the floorboards of our home and her cubs went missing and that’s left me unsettled all week. But there was also a happy circle-of-life surprise this week.  My niece Kristen gave birth to little Lila Sharon and all of a sudden I [...]

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Kathryn Pritchett

writes about Things Elemental — where we find shelter, why we connect, what sustains us and how we strut our stuff.