(T-Minus 3) A Thankful Ten Days Before Christmas: Traveling

Ever since I was an infant, I have been traveling. My mother managed to haul me and two suitcases full of necessities to Asia before I turned one. Since then, between moving all over the country with my parents, I consistently returned to Asia every few years to visit my parents’ families. That’s probably where […]

(T-Minus 4) A Thankful Ten Days Before Christmas: Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

Once upon a time, many years ago, when my brothers and I went to the beach for a family vacation, I was lying on the beach, sunbathing, when all of a sudden, I felt cold ocean water being dumped on my back. A pair of voices appeared. “It’s a BEACHED WHALE! Hurry! We need to […]

(T-Minus 5) A Thankful Ten Days Before Christmas: Photography and the Little Things

I get the distinct feeling that my eyes look more goldfish than human. Today, anyway. I’ve been feeling like a sick monkey all day. My head feels like a time bomb, ready to explode, and my nose is bright red and about to fall off my face, I’ve rubbed it so much. I’ve gone through […]

(T-Minus 6) A Thankful Ten Days Before Christmas: This Guy (and Sunsets and Stuff)

He’s in my shot. Again. Whatta jerk. I am kidding, of course. Sort of. No, really. I am. He actually messaged me last night and asked when I was going to get to the “people” part of my 10 days of Christmas thankfulness. Pish posh! So impatient! Day -6: I am thankful for this guy […]

(T-Minus 8) A Thankful Ten Days Before Christmas: Nighttime Strolls

My friends thought I was crazy. “You go for walks at night? Through the Tenderloin*?” Repeated questions spoken with incredulity. Um, yes. Walks at night. Through the Tenderloin. Once you’ve made it past Taylor and Market in the direction of Union Square, you’re golden. Just, uh, don’t tell my mother. *The “Tenderloin” is one of […]

(T-Minus 9) A Thankful Ten Days Until Christmas: Coffee

Day -9: I am thankful for coffee What’s your crack cocaine? (Hey, perhaps it’s crack cocaine itself, in which you might want to consider rehab . . . ) For me, well, I guess it’s coffee. Now mind you, I’m not actually addicted to caffeine. Yet, anyway. I didn’t start drinking coffee until my last […]

(T-Minus 10) A Thankful Ten Days Until Christmas: Home Away from Home, San Francisco

2014 passed by in a blur. (Over the next ten days leading up to Christmas, I am going to post each day about something I’m thankful for.) I recently had a discussion about dreams and goals and the potential need to make sacrifices to attain said goals. The reason for this conversation stemmed from the […]

Waiting for . . . #Stormageddon?

It’s been a moody day. Tomorrow will be moodier. People all over the country have been flipping out about the incoming rainstorm to California (and the rest of the West Coast). Goodness knows we need this rain, after the terrible drought earlier this year. When I stopped by Photoworks SF earlier today to drop off […]

New York, New York! Visiting the City that Never Sleeps

Today we are briefly going to travel to the opposite coast from San Francisco. When I went back East to visit family in late October, I decided that a visit to New York City was in order. The last time I had visited NYC was, I think, in 2005 or 2006. And, for the most […]

Yosemite National Park, California

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone ate lots of turkey and got really plump off of good food! Recently, I made a last minute decision to join my friends on a weekend camping trip to Yosemite National Park. Now, up until a month ago, the totality of my camping experiences consisted of a single trip by the […]