FireDrums 2007

FireDrums 2007

Over the week­end, we went to Big Basin State Forest for Fire­Drums V. It was a magical week­end, mys­tical and wild, even if it was emo­tion­ally drain­ing at times. I lit my poi for the first time ever and Doug and I did a quiet little Beltaine...

May 1, cinqo de mayo, beltaine

Well, today is May Day, tra­di­tion­ally a day of work­er’s rights. There were ral­lies through­out Cali­for­nia for labor issues and I figure it’s an appro­pri­ate time for me to com­ment on my observations. One of the teens around me right now men­tioned...

Whoa…

I‑80 col­lapses after tanker crash I was just on this stretch of road yes­ter­day, driv­ing back from Alameda (where we had Anzac day lunch at a New Zea­l­and res­taur­ant with mizchalmers) to San Fran­cisco to buy lovely Moroc­can fur­niture from La Kasbah. Just...

Busybody’s heaven

Sit­ting in the only decent coffee shop in Sil­icon Valley makes for inter­est­ing ear-candy. Just about every day there’s another Google-staffer, Apple-staffer, Yahoo-staffer or start-up hope­ful talk­ing with friends about some issue they’re having or some...