living in SF
Productivity FAIL
I never get any work done when it's shorts weather in SF. All I want to do is walk halfway up Buena Vista and lie out on my fallen log in the sun with my iPhone stuck on Bon Iver.
living in SF
living in SF
God, I Love October in SF
Of course, nothing can beat last October, for a few years at least, but I love this month in San Francisco. It's hot, dammit, and we only get that once a year, for a couple months, peaking in October. There is no people watching like Dolores Park on
living in SF
Seeing All of San Francisco at Once
I'm always trying to sum up San Francisco – to grok all of it at once. Standing on top of this mountain in the middle of the Bay, looking out at all of this city, from Berkeley to the Golden Gate Bridge to Tiburon and back, I'm
living in SF
Don't Look Down
The word I've used most to describe my first year in San Francisco is vertiginous. When I left DC I had a few simple goals: write more, don't let work take over my life, get healthier, and meet new girls. Since I moved in, I'
living in SF
One Year In
San Francisco – overgrown with nasturtiums and dizzy-headed startup starz – San Francisco doesn't feel like home yet. Sun-bleached and fog-soaked, filthy and freewheeling, blooming, grinding, singing lullalabies to lesbians, San Francisco strains and slumbers. She is a wild, untamed seductress. She reaches out with her forest of kelp fronds,