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SF Bay Area Public Health: Getting the Numbers
SF Bay Area Public Health: Getting the Numbers
Today was my first time looking at the public health website for Alameda where I live. I was surprised to read that public health…
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Mar 25, 2020
Life
Life
After the initial shock wears off from the Bay Area’s Shelter in Place, people start to adjust. Most of us feel pretty awful after a few…
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Mar 22, 2020
January California Notebook
January California Notebook
I took a two month break, and when I emerged from my flight in San Francisco in January it hit home that I was an insider to the Bay Area…
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Mar 22, 2020
Imagining Life in Mexico City
Imagining Life in Mexico City
Imagining life in Mexico City…
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Mar 22, 2020
Adjusting to the Virus
Adjusting to the Virus
People are starting to cope, but it’s a rough journey. A mass sense of turning inward, especially after the San Francisco Bay area…
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Mar 22, 2020
Corona Gets Real in California
Corona Gets Real in California
Mid March things get real in California….
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Mar 22, 2020
London anti-umbrella machismo
London anti-umbrella machismo
I think there’s some kind of anti-umbrella machismo in London the way there is in NYC.
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Jan 22, 2020
When you lose a language…
When you lose a language…
When one slowly loses a language, you start losing with the spoken expressions, but also gather hundreds of grammatical mistakes…
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Jan 22, 2020
Coffee at Dallmayer’s in Munich
Coffee at Dallmayer’s in Munich
One of the things I miss most about Germany is curling up next to a German language newspaper in a cafe and just zoning out for hours and…
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Jan 22, 2020
Berlin Mermaids
Berlin Mermaids
From a distance mermaids are beautiful, voluptuous, luscious. Quite a few visitors to Berlin fall in love with them. As I said, from far…
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Jan 22, 2020
Scoping the Pool
Scoping the Pool
Skaters spend a lot of time scoping out the pool before they skate, “feeling” the lines with their eyes and bodies. It’s like scanning the…
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Nov 23, 2019
Berlin
Berlin
Everything changed…
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Nov 16, 2019
Moscow
Moscow
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Nov 16, 2019
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Soul Kitchen balcony
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Nov 16, 2019
Los Angeles: Pushed out to Riverside
Los Angeles: Pushed out to Riverside
“Rent’s rising in Los Angeles that people are moving to Riverside.” — Janine
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Nov 16, 2019
East L.A. Homies
East L.A. Homies
Children of the corn
romyilano
Nov 14, 2019
L.A. Cure
L.A. Cure
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Nov 14, 2019
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