• Time is of the Essense: East vs. West
About once a week some one will say to me: Oh you’re from San Francisco? What’s the difference between the East Coast and West Coast? Presently my answer is to yell “I don’t want to talk about it!”...
View Article• New York has Subways, San Francisco has…
Summer is a time for vacations. My favorite vacation destination is my home town: beautiful San Francisco. I recently spent a lovely, long vacation in the city by the bay. There is a surprisingly easy...
View Article• San Francisco: Color Bursts from the Walls
Summer is a time for vacations. My favorite vacation destination is my home town: beautiful San Francisco. San Francisco is colorful. This may seem an obvious statement. The city is renowned for...
View Article• A Moon Lit Walk on a New Year’s Night
I left my first job of the new year at 1AM on 1/1/13. I walked out of the hotel and onto Powell Street in downtown San Francisco. Cable car tracks lay before me, separating me from the bright, festive...
View Article• Fool on a California Beach
I tell people I am from San Francisco and they gasp. “It’s so beautiful there!” They shriek in abject horror, “Why would you ever leave!?” Ask me in May and I have good answers: I love New York!...
View ArticleCalifornia Dreamin’ on Such a Winter’s Day
Last night I was awakened at 4AM by the sound of wind and sleet pounding upon my window. I shivered, put the pillow over my head, and tried to go back to sleep. Oh New York winter, you are a beast!...
View ArticleSan Francisco Vacation Preview
I’ve been in California. Visiting my hometown of San Francisco and for the wedding of one of my best friends. It was an amazing trip. The absolute only downside was that it turned me into the worst...
View ArticleBeating the Winter Blues: #SunshineSunday
I spent Christmas week spent in my hometown of San Francisco. Incredible blue skies and sunshine every single day I was there. As a New York Cliché one might expect I’m from a small town in the...
View ArticleBeating the Winter Blues: #SunshineSUNday #2
This winter I’m devoting every Sunday on this blog to SUN! (I started last week: see here.) What our skin lacks in Vitamin D we will make up for with our eyes! Together we will combat the winter blues,...
View ArticleBattle Winter Blues with Beach Reminiscing #SunshineSUNday
This winter I’m devoting every Sunday on this blog to SUN! (click for SUNday #1 and SUNday #2) What our skin lacks in Vitamin D we will make up for with our eyes! Together we will combat the winter...
View ArticleSunshine SUNday #6: Golden Gate and Golden Retriever
This season I’m devoting every Sunday on this blog to SUN! What our skin lacks in Vitamin D we will make up for with our eyes! As a person born and raised in San Francisco, this most gray time of the...
View ArticleSunshine SUNday #7 from the top of San Francisco
This season I’m devoting every Sunday on this blog to SUN! What our skin lacks in Vitamin D we will make up for with our eyes! Together we will combat the winter blues, living vicariously through...
View ArticleSUNday #8: Snapshots of Sunny San Francisco
This winter season I’m devoting every Sunday on this blog to SUN! What our skin lacks in Vitamin D we will make up for with our eyes! Together we will combat the winter blues, living vicariously...
View ArticleNew York and San Francisco: Bicoastal Polyamory is Totally Cool
Yesterday I returned to New York from a seaside vacation in a quaint coastal town. By that I mean I was home for the holidays in San Francisco. Yes, San Francisco is where I was born and raised for the...
View ArticleThe New York Cliché Can’t Escape NYC on Her CALIFORNIA Vacation
I’m back! Back in the New York blues! Back to the daily grind and the hustle and bustle of NYC cliché after 10 glorious days in California. We hung out at the beach, hiked under giant redwoods, got...
View ArticleStreet Art Tuesday: I Left My Art in San Francisco
I’m switching things up on the blog here, post-vacation, and taking on a more manageable blogging schedule of 5 days a week rather than the full 7. Just because I’m blogging about the city that never...
View ArticleEscape NYC: San Francisco Cliché for a Vacay
I so often play tourist in New York City, the place I’ve lived for the past 10 years. So can you imagine what it was like last week when I visited my home town of San Francisco, a place I haven’t lived...
View ArticleVacationing in San Francisco When It’s Your Hometown
I lived in San Francisco from birth to age 18. So I really only know the city as a kid! If you ask me for city recommendations, I can tell you where the best birthday parties were held in the 90s and...
View ArticleEscape from NYC: San Francisco Minutes
Every Friday (but this week delayed to Sunday!) I feature some fleeting moments from my week that made me stop and think, “I’m so lucky to live in NYC!” And maybe some that made me think, “Bahaha this...
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