June 20, 2012
Tags: Elvis Presley, Gumps, Hadleys, Junior League, San Francisco, Whitman College
Last week before the lilac fell and Gwen, my neighbor who knows something about just about everything, brought her chain saw over to lay waste both to the tree and to any fragments of male chauvinism in this neighborhood of powerful women, I had written a series of politicizing, sermonizing, sarcasmizing blogs posts which prompted Read the Rest…
November 18, 2010
Tags: Armistead Maupin, Girl Scouts, San Francisco
Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold. Do you remember singing that song in grade school or in Girls Scouts? Pigtailed little girls holding hands in a circle, ensconced in a swirl of harmonies. I, for one, didn’t know what the hell the song was about. I still Read the Rest…