Tonight, I’m going to yet another local government meeting. This time around, it’s the Santa Clara County Planning Commission. The county’s planning commission has jurisdiction over most of Stanford University’s campus since the school’s land is not incorporated in any city limits; although people colloquially say that Stanford is “in…

As I write this, San Francisco is an international laughing stock. This week’s issue of The Economist, read across the globe, mentioned the fight that is going on in the South Beach neighborhood over a proposed Homeless Navigation Center. Many other local, national, and global news outlets have picked up…

In her hit single 7 Rings, Ariana Grande took inspiration from the lyrical genius of Rodgers & Hammerstein and the vocal majesty of Dame Julie Andrews. It was awesome. So, in honor of those four legends of music, let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start: …

I spent this Labor Day weekend sifting through a treasure trove of documents and records on Ancestry.com. I have been thinking about 2018 in the context of bygone eras and the continuous, inevitable march of human migration throughout history, and I wanted to understand more about what caused my ancestors…