Happy Valentine’s Day! A few weeks ago I was stuck on a muddy road outside Tarma, Peru waiting over an hour for construction to clear. Was I frustrated? Of course. But after awhile I stopped fussing about getting to our destination and started focusing on the unexpected beauty around me. I saw a good [...]
When we were young and broke it was a challenge to fill our empty walls with something more than inexpensive framed posters. We actually rented our first piece of original art through a rent-to-buy program at the Oakland Museum. That program has since been discontinued (though SFMOMA still runs one), but I’m grateful that it [...]
Happy Birthday to my husband, M.J. Well before Google was invented, he became the search engine in my world. Brilliant, clever, kind and decent–he’s provided the answers to so many questions in my life. Big and little. Our children mock our geeky courtship–we met in our university’s honors program, competed on the same College Bowl [...]
