I know it seems weird that we got a Covid vaccine developed so fast and that it feels scary and hard to trust but truth be told, genius scientists like Nobel Prize winners Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna developed the technology that made way for this safe vaccine way back in 2012. So when Covid […]
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A few weeks ago it was John Lennon’s birthday. He would have been 81 if he hadn’t been gunned down by a selfish little twerp that wanted to be famous. Lennon was a complex, sometimes assholic, damaged, misogynistic genius and I admit that he has always been my favorite Beatle. He didn’t have a functioning […]
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Welp, I have a weird eyeball now. A couple months ago I noticed a bright white spot on my eyeball surrounded by blood vessels. Of course I was like, “Okay, my worst nightmare has finally happened, I have eye cancer. I need to start preparing.” But then I visited the Google machine and it’s called […]
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On the morning of August 6th 1945, the city of Hiroshima, Japan was virtually obliterated by an atomic bomb. Over a hundred thousand civilians and more than 20,000 military personal were killed within seconds of the American military plane, The Enola Gay, dropping the first atomic bomb ever used in a war. A few days […]
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So last week Paper Source, a large chain stationery store, declared bankruptcy but not before they placed large orders with hundreds of small card businesses. Once all those orders shipped out and were in transit, they made their bankruptcy announcement. None of those small, mostly women owned businesses, are going to get paid. Then it […]
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I really struggled after I left my mom’s house at 14. I had nightmares and would wake up everyone in my dad’s house because I was talking and shouting in my sleep. I was having dream after dream all night, every night. Sometimes they were about blue water and tropical islands but mostly they were […]
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When we first got ReeRee we thought we were just going to foster her. We immediately started searching for a new home for her because we thought having two large dogs in an apartment would be impossible. Our dog Jasmine loved her but two dogs, two pitbulls in a city apartment? No way. Yes, Jasmine […]
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For the past week I’ve been seeing a tiny little white dog that I’ve never seen before. It’s winter time so he’s always wearing a blue and yellow hooded sweater. Every day I see this dog. I think he might be visiting since I’ve never seen his mom before either and if he’s not with […]
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San Francisco is dirty. Really dirty and it’s only gotten worse during the pandemic. When the tent city was up on my block during the lockdown the trash got really bad. For some reason SF didn’t think they should put up a dumpster to collect the tent people’s trash so the people living in the […]
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Print out your game here! https://mailchi.mp/4002daf5d91c/a-calculating-parrot-e-pluribus-unum-join-the-sticker-club-and-i-still-love-you-california-5078758 I have literally watched all the Hallmark Holiday movies ever made and now I’m putting my years of knowledge to good use. I’ve put together this board game for you to build, color in, and then play! This board game will either spare you hours of Hallmark Movie watching, […]
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Years ago I broke my two front teeth snowboarding. I wasn’t doing anything rad and awesome, I was actually guffawing at a joke my brother had made. I threw my head back laughing as we walked, carrying our boards to the lift, then threw my head forward right into the metal edge of my board. […]
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Cardigan sweaters are my jam. I love a zip up sweater with a hood. But I’ll take one with no hood but a cool collar. I’d try one with snaps or buttons but have just never seen one I like because usually those make me look frumpy because buttons are usually put onto sweaters with […]
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There’s something very soothing about watching the same holiday movies that you have memorized every year when they pop up on tv. But since we’re in the middle of a pandemic and maybe everyone is extra bored, I thought I’d suggest a few holiday movies that aren’t played over and over again every holiday season. […]
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Butterhorns are a family tradition for me. I’m from a family of bakers so making rolls from scratch was no big deal growing up but I know that recipes that involve yeast can be really intimidating. Don’t worry, I swear you can do this! This recipe just takes patience and observation, which means I’m sure […]
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I was at Trader Joe’s today to pick up a couple of free range chickens for Thanksgiving. It was very busy due to the holiday. At the checkout, I let the young cashier know I was a bossy bagger so no need to bag my groceries, I’d do it. “Oh cool, thanks! That helps a […]
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Driving home on the freeway yesterday I eased on the brakes on the winding downhill connection between Highway 1 and the 280 because of all the flashing police lights stopping traffic from taking the freeway entrance onto the Southbound side. As I continued past I could see police lights flashing on the other entrance across […]
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A bunch of snobs have been talking trash about Iceberg lettuce lately and I’m here to talk trash back. They write about how tasteless it is, a throwback to the fifties, when no one knew what good food was. “It’s so American!!! So old fashioned, a throw back!!” they proclaim. It’s tasteless? No lettuce is […]
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************************ I wrote this essay a few years ago when I started to realize that wildfires were going to become a norm every fall in California. I saw the PBS documentary, “Leave It To Beavers” when it came out and I’ve been obsessed with getting the word out about how much they could help to […]
Read more »With the announcement of the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was a hard weekend for every American that cares about equality, animals, climate change, healthcare, women’s rights, pollution and a hundred other important issues affecting our future. So I’m writing this to talk myself down from my panic and devastation but I hope it […]
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A few weeks ago my friend Andrea called to tell me about her crow. She could see him from her bedroom window. He was living in her neighbor’s yard. He was hopping up and down and flapping his wings but was unable to take flight. “I think it’s okay.” She told me. “He’s surrounded by […]
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During this time of COVID, I feel like we are all pioneers now, trying to find our way in a new world. Our future is uncharted as we move through our lives blindly, trying to just feel our way around all the changes. With no government to really help us, we’re all floating around, trying […]
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One day this summer, at low tide on a waveless day, I was walking parallel to shore in the shallow water to rehab my injured knee. A lobster wandering the sea floor startled me enough that I let out a tiny, little wee scream but he left me alone and I went on my way. […]
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Sometimes, when I walk by a barking dog waiting outside a grocery store, I’ll stop and keep him or her company until the owner comes out. It calms the dog’s anxiety down and allows the owner to shop in peace without worrying about annoying everyone in the neighborhood with their barking dog. A couple of […]
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When I was around thirteen I spent a summer living with my older sister. One of her part time jobs was to curate and run films for a movie night at the local library. One evening I was visiting her at the end of her shift when the janitor popped in to tidy up. They […]
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A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles At first Jasmine thought this was one of the most boring books ever written. She felt like the writer really loved to over describe things for no reason except for the luxury of it. “I mean,” panted Jasmine in exasperation, “there were entire pages dedicated to a book […]
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During the pandemic shut down I have hardly seen any pigeons. With all the restaurants and bars closed and everyone else sheltering in place there is no longer a free and easy food source where they can manically gather, gobbling up every crumb. I don’t see them fighting each other over every bean and grain […]
Read more »In 1859 an English naturalist and biologist named Charles Darwin published the book ‘On the Origin of The Species’. It was a book describing his new theory, the science of evolution, meaning that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors. It introduced to the public the concept of “natural selection” known […]
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While I’ve been sheltering in place, I’ve been thinking a lot about the 1976 sexy sci-fi movie called Logan’s Run. It’s a dystopian story that takes place in the year 2274 set in a protected, domed world that has a computer system for a government. The domed world is a society of beautiful young people […]
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I’ve been so psyched to have my veggie burger recipe (http://www.sundewhiteindustries.com/delicious-veggie-burger-recipe/) through this Shelter in Place world pandemic because it seems like it’s kind of difficult to get meat right now and because we’ve been enjoying our veggie burgers so much, I haven’t even worried about obtaining any meat. So I started to think about […]
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Back in the 1800’s, when the pioneers trudged across the Great Plains to build their new life on their homestead, they had to survive any way they could, they were on their own. When a woman got pregnant, she’d just have to get through it and pray for a safe delivery. Injured? Whelp, you’d better […]
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Since I’ve been in quarantine I have thought a lot about the gross and tragic story of Typhoid Mary. She was the first person identified as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever in the early 1900’s, a disease that causes fever, weakness, abdominal pain, a rash and sometimes death. A vaccine was created in the […]
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For a few months I had been reading on Twitter about some kind of epidemic over in China that doctors and experts that tracked that sort of thing seemed to be really freaking out about. They’d tweet out statistics and graphs trying to alert us regular people about how dangerous it was and how there […]
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Years ago I went to a Surfrider talk given by a shark specialist that had been studying Great Whites around the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco for twenty years. He had tons of fascinating information about sharks and left us with some tips on how to know if there is a shark […]
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I’m not proud to admit that I worked for years at a bar/restaurant that was so seedy that we employees nicknamed it “The Rat Spot”. I won’t say what street it was on because anyone that has lived in SF will immediately know the actual name of the place. When I worked there, the Mission […]
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I haven’t had a good, uninterrupted night’s sleep in over twenty years. Not since I got my first dog DeeDee, a pitbull with very little need for personal space. Although back when I had her I was single so we made it work, sharing a whole bed between the two of us. Then my husband […]
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So Britt recently had a very unfashionable day and I’m pretty much totally to blame. He walked in from work after a full day as an electrician and I ask him, “Is that what you wore today???” He’s like, “Ya, I met with clients.” Met with clients??? Oh my god. “What??” He asks me. I […]
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In a wild land with strong rivers cutting through it on the way to the sea, there lived a man named Edgar that would walk down to one of these rivers to fish nearly every day. One spring morning he was baiting his hook when the largest bald eagle he had ever seen swooped down […]
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I pulled into the alley and stopped at my apartment’s back gate to load my boards into my truck. I sighed when I saw a guy at the fence, a few feet from my gate, squatting down and hunched over something on the ground. “Oh gross.” I thought to myself, assuming he was a drug […]
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With crows standing up to 21 inches high and weighing about a pound with a wingspan between 35-40 inches, a sharp beak and wily intelligence, I always figured a crow would be a sure winner over the seagull in a beach battle. But this week I saw an actual seagull vs. crow battle take place […]
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ReeRee The Testaments Margaret Atwood As a feminist, ReeRee thinks the long awaited, well timed sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is great. Usually she doesn’t like books told by a few different narrators but in this case it is really effective in answering all the questions she’s ever had about the dystopian country, The […]
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Every California surfer lives for October. The bigger swells start to roll in, the weather is beautiful, offshore winds arrive holding up each peak perfectly and summer crowds go home. But for the past few years October has become a fiery hellscape for all Californians as every year we wake up one morning smelling smoke […]
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After Britt and I had been together a couple of years we took our first trip back to his home country of New Zealand to visit his family for Christmas. Along with his mom Judy, we arrived in Gisborne, a quiet seaside town, jet lagged but excited to be there. We were staying with Britt’s […]
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James was a bartender at the restaurant where I worked as a dishwasher and line cook. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. He was like a sculpture or a model. He was the only person I had ever met that actually worked out in a gym and was compulsively healthy, always […]
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I was still a teenager, maybe 18, when I was living in San Francisco in a large Victorian flat on the third floor. My roommates were all adults in their 30’s and all except one were lesbians that were cool and powerful and fixed their motorbikes on the sidewalk downstairs. I was very intimidated by […]
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While jogging on the beach last week I noticed a seagull standing alone, further up on the beach than the other seagulls that were all eating big crabs left over from high tide at the water line. As I ran past I realized that he was holding his foot up, just resting his toe on […]
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I hate lettuce on sandwiches and hamburgers because it is always applied wrong. When done wrong lettuce is a second thought put on in the rush of burger and sandwich making. “For the crunch.” People mumble to themselves as they stick a leaf of limp, veiny, green, solidified watery vegetable onto the mayonnaise of their […]
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Welp, Ollie the dog has taken the Hamburger Hot Rod Express up to heaven and we will all miss him terribly. I only got to know Ollie when he was a bit older. He visited us one Christmas when his family went away for the holidays. I had never met such a confident dog. He […]
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The first time I saw someone get shot I was about 16 or 17 and had moved into my San Francisco neighborhood the year before. SF’s Mission District at that time, was a little bit like the wild west. Gangs, shootings, stabbings, trash everywhere, needles, heroin addicts nodding off standing up, while trying not to […]
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I went to move my truck for street cleaning this morning a little before nine. In my peripheral vision I saw what seemed to be a homeless lady that was maybe a little bit nutty, walking towards me in a pretty rose colored short bathrobe and white slippers. Well those aren’t going to stay clean […]
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California is a completely blue state. The governor, state assembly and the state senate are all Democrats—not a majority of Democrats– every single person voted into state office since 2011 have been Democrats. We would have been Republican free since 2004 except for a weird election that ended up with a movie star named Arnold […]
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I’ve been really into frozen treats lately so I thought I’d invent a delicious easy one for summer. Introducing the Frozen Elvis! A chocolate covered peanut butter and banana frozen treat. Here’s what you’ll need. Ingredients: Peanut Butter 2 Bananas cut in half width wise ************** 1 Cup Chocolate Chips 2 tbsp salted butter 2 […]
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Last week Britt and I went to a wedding. It was a quintessentially American wedding in that it joined two people, with two different cultures and heritages together. At this wedding a first generation Chinese/Vietnamese American bride was marrying an Irishman that had only just arrived here a few years ago. Speaking with a strong […]
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On Thursday Britt woke up with a sore throat. “God Dammit,” he said. “I’m sick.” “What??? It’s summer time. Get away from me though.” I told him. “You know who gave it to me?” he asked. “ A little kid?” “Dr. Coolum.” “The root canal dentist?” “Ya, he was coughing and had sniffles the whole […]
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It’s been a difficult few months for me for a bunch of reasons that I think I’ll get into as time goes on but for now I’m looking for some input from anyone who feels they grew up in a fairly stable and loving household that helped form them into a stable and kind adult. […]
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I’m a huge tennis fan, I’ve never played it but I’ve loved watching it since I was a little kid watching Boris Becker at Wimbledon. I’ve learned so much and been so inspired by my favorite players through the years that I feel like tennis helped to raise me. One of the most valuable things […]
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I’ve been sucking it up and just getting on with things all week while I recover from ear surgery and it reminded me of a day where I was horrible and mean and terrible to Britt and demanded that he suck it up. Years ago we went on an early season snowboard trip. The mountain […]
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So tomorrow tiny magical elves will sneak into my ear canal and chip away all the bone growth that has formed because I’ve surfed in cold water for 30 years. JK, actually it will be Dr. Gupta but it seems way less scary to just think I’m going to take a nap and magical elves […]
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How do you figure out you have no self esteem if you have no self esteem to tell you? I started a plant and garden care business at twenty one because I hated working for people and also I was never going to get hired for anything other than low paying, soul sucking jobs. At […]
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Because of her upbringing, ReeRee can go from zero to 1000 on the anxiety scale within seconds. Over reacting is her thing. When she’s stressed she growls, lunges, nibbles and then frantically kisses where she’s nibbled, begging you to forgive her. Being restricted in any way triggers her anxiety and she can lash out, so […]
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First of all, I hate crowds so I really can’t stand crowded yoga classes. But I’m really trying to do two yoga classes a week because it calms my mind, makes me more focused and reduces sports injuries. So today, since I hadn’t done my second yoga class, I forced myself to go to a […]
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Definition of Feminism (noun): The advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. Political, economic and social equality of the sexes. For some reason some men and women don’t like the word feminism or feminist. Predictably, the word has been weaponized by society so a larger block of the population […]
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So I spent all winter, recovering from one cold or another, hugging my heater and watching The Great British Bake Off on Netflix. Oh my gosh, this show! So soothing and relaxing, so British! The contestants win nothing but a glass cake plate and some flowers but they weep when they win. And the other […]
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The police would always come up behind me and quietly stand in my blind spot, waiting for me to notice them. I’d follow my suddenly silent pie customer’s eyes and turn to find them standing there. They were always very polite and kind but it would kill my business for that night. My line of […]
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So my cheap landlord hired a grifting contractor that has suddenly found a thousand things that have to get done with our apartment. The contractor decided that he needed to fix our bathroom subfloor around our toilet even though we’ve never had our toilet leak before. He casually informed my husband that they’d be doing […]
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Everybody talks about fresh cut fries like they’re a good thing but in reality, almost always, they are just okay. Ya, if you get them seconds out of the fryer when they are still soft and piping hot then they’re fine but that is rarely what happens. Or, what if you’re like me and want […]
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I am officially announcing a new holiday to replace the current single shaming, romance pressuring, limp rose, Hallmark invented holiday of Valentine’s Day. I present to you: Dogentine’s Day! No love is as pure as the love between a dog and their person. My first Dogentine was dropped off at my apartment by a friend. […]
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When I was 15 and living with my sister, we would fill our stomachs once a week at the Hare Krishna house across town during their weekly community meal. They would welcome us warmly and usher us into the house. My sister and I would sit in the middle of a pool of orange robed […]
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I recently watched the 2013 Academy Award winning documentary, “Searching For Sugar Man”, about an amazing musician named Rodriguez, that was discovered in the late sixties in Detroit and released a couple of albums in the early seventies. His music is played throughout the movie and I found it to be beautiful and gritty. Both […]
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I’ve been feeling kind of, “Whah! Poor me!” lately. Will I ever get to where I want to be professionally? Is anybody out there who cares? Maybe it’s the political situation that is seeping into me and bumming me out. The entire shutdown of the US government is not reassuring. Or it’s last week’s head […]
Read more »A couple of years ago, outside of my apartment, a pigeon flew past me frantically flapping his wings but barely being able to fly higher than about my shoulder. A pink plastic bag was attached to his foot. With each attempt to fly, just as he was becoming airborne, the bag would fill with air […]
Read more »So it’s Switzerland in the 1930’s and the Nestle chocolate company is like, “We have a bunch of left over oil from our cocoa beans from when we make delicious dark and milk chocolate. Isn’t there a way to make this gross excess lump of oil into something that we can insist is a […]
Read more »So I found a new American Hero this year. His name is Jordan Blue and he is a high school student at Baraboo High School in Wisconson. A photo of him during his heroic act shows him in an old timey tuxedo, quarky, with a red bow tie and pocket square, standing in a group […]
Read more »I saw this dad walking along Valencia street one morning. The giant toddler he was carrying was actually bigger than I drew him because I thought it would look like I was exaggerating. I don’t know if the dad was short or the toddler had exceptionally long legs but I swear to god his legs […]
Read more »I woke up to an orange sky and a heavy brown haze hanging over the city. Smoke from a fire a few hundred miles away was pressing down on San Francisco. For the second year in a row I dawned my dust mask every time I left the house and a coating of ash settled […]
Read more »When I was 18 I didn’t care at all about voting. I was a skate boarder working as a dishwasher and living in a tiny apartment in San Francisco with two guys that were pot addicts that played video games all day. The first time I even thought that about voting was when I walked […]
Read more »Remember back in the 80’s when we’d settle around the TV to watch Miami Vice on a Saturday night and every time there was a drug dealer on there’d also be ferociously barking Rottweilers and German Shepherds? And everyone was like, omg, Rotweilers and German Shepherds are so scary, only drug dealers have them! Well […]
Read more »Last week a couple of American cities were wiped out from a giant hurricane. The people in Florida are still in desperate need of help so please visit AmericanRedCross.org if you’d like to help. I watched Hurricane Michael on TV as it was coming to shore. It pulled sheets of steel off of gymnasiums, uprooted […]
Read more »Remember last week when, for 25 minutes, America listened and believed a sexual assault victim? And then the accuser got his say and started crying and shouting at us and everyone was like, “Gee, okay, if you’re that upset about it she must be lying.” ? Me too. The thing about Dr.Ford’s testimony that was […]
Read more »Jasmine looks adorable no matter what, obviously, but I’m going to be honest with you—she does have a tendency to over accessorize. This is her every day out and about style. She’s kind of a safety first type of dog so most of her outfit is for her own protection. Like, she has one collar […]
Read more »I took a walk early one morning in a nice neighborhood up the hill from mine. Half way through, I came upon two crows eating a rat. Of course I was totally grossed out but also worried because maybe the rat had been poisoned.
Read more »Two weeks before my wedding day I went surfing at Montara Beach. I came up under my board on my first wave and sliced my forehead open with my surfboard’s fin. It didn’t feel bad but blood began pouring into my eyes. I climbed back up the sandy path in between the cliffs and I […]
Read more »It’s about to be pumpkin everything season so here’s a recipe for a delicious pumpkin bread! It has a lot of ingredients but it’s totally worth it. I love this bread and I’m not even that big on pumpkin. Enjoy! Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. 2 sticks soft salted butter 1 1/3 cups brown […]
Read more »I used to take care of a lonely cockatoo named Buddy. His home was a greenhouse in the backyard of his owner’s house that was rarely there. I was supposed to clean his glass house and feed him when Tony, the owner, was out of town. At first I was terrified of the big bird […]
Read more »A few years ago an historically huge swell hit the Bay Area. It was too massive for us to surf anywhere but Britt and I wanted to witness it. We drove along the coast oohing and aahing as giant mountains of water collapsed and rolled over on themselves, exploding into the shallower water inside. Highway […]
Read more »Pitbulls were once known as the Nanny Dog and the dog of the working class people. It was the most common type of dog in America. The pitbull’s warm and sensitive nature and interest in pleasing their owner is why they are beloved pets but it is also why they are taken advantage of by […]
Read more »In celebration of our new leader, Vlad, and also as a refreshing relief from the long hot summer, here is a recipe for the delicious adult beverage, The Moscow Mule! I reached out to the recently indicted Russian spy—oops I mean student, Maria Butina in her DC jail where she is awaiting trial and she […]
Read more »San Francisco has a poo problem. Not a dog poo problem, we have a very large dog poo police force here where you can be bending down about to scoop up your dogs poo and some poo policeman will ask, “Are you going to pick that up?” Or more passive aggressively they’ll ask, “Do […]
Read more »Fact: Senior dogs are the best dogs. They know the routine, how to communicate, how to act. They’re polite, gentle, disciplined and calm. It seems like they can read your mind, they’re always prepared for your every move. They don’t bound and spring through the world anymore, but who cares? Neither do older humans. […]
Read more »In celebration of Wimbledon I thought I would share a fashion analysis of the most accessorized player ever in the game, Andre Agassi. In 1992 he won his first major, Wimbledon, and his outfit was nuts. I don’t know how he did it when he was so weighed down with all of his fashion don’ts. […]
Read more »So it turns out that if you have a closed plastic bag of Hershey chocolate minis in a small compartment at the bottom of an 80 pound suitcase full of craft supplies locked in the camper shell of your truck in Tahoe, a bear will know. Wandering by, late at night, he will smell chocolate, […]
Read more »I finally figured out this spring how to successfully launch a white fly eating brigade of ladybugs successfully into my garden. Every year I used to try to use ladybugs to kill bugs but it was never effective. Then a nice gal at my local hardware store gave me these tips and they worked! Here […]
Read more »I read Kitchen Confidential when I was first starting my greeting card business. It gave me hope that one day I could leave my restaurant job and live off of my creative endeavors. It was a beacon of light to help guide me out of the back breaking, mentally draining restaurant work and succeed as […]
Read more »A guy on a motorcycle passed me yesterday by driving around me on the wrong side of the road. I glanced over at him and saw the he was wearing a helmet, a leather jacket and flip flops. The flip flops made me cringe. My mind flashed back to the motorcycle accident that happened outside […]
Read more »Because my dog ReRe is an innovative go getter she made the decision early on that when she has to poop at the beach it’s best to wade knee deep into the ocean and let the waves immediately dissolve and wash away any evidence of it. This makes people furious. They like to lecture me […]
Read more »Last week there was a break in the incessant wind and fog of spring on the coast. The sun came out and the surf calmed down at my favorite beach. It was a Tuesday so the beach was empty. The dogs and I were the only ones that saw the big grey whale surface just […]
Read more »The last time I saw my cat, a giant stoic tabby named Kitty, I was 14. I kissed her goodbye and hugged her big fluffy body to me, trying to memorize her dusty smell. I spoke to her secretly in her ear, apologizing for leaving her. I knew I would never see her again but […]
Read more »***I am not a doctor! This is not medical advice, just my personal life experience! Please just go to a doctor, thanks!*** ___________________________________________________________________________ I didn’t have health insurance for about twelve years. During this time I tried to eat right, exercise and prayed I wouldn’t get into an accident. I became really good […]
Read more »I consider my high top Vans to be my dress shoe and my Adidas shell toes to be my casual shoe.
Read more »Britt and I were enjoying one of the last warm days of fall, sitting in the water at Ocean Beach, waiting for a wave, when we saw it. At first we thought it was a rogue local storm raining down in the water south of us. But it was moving and reshaping itself unlike any […]
Read more »I recently witnessed the greatest moment of work rebellion ever. You know when you’re at work and you’re like, “No one’s the boss of me. You may have my physical body for the next 8 hours, but you can’t have my mind.” ? It was basically that sentiment being acted out with a six wheel […]
Read more »I’ve had a dream of growing grass in my mud pit of a backyard ever since I got my big, glorious dog Jasmine. Her two favorite things to do are relaxing and luxuriating and relaxing and luxuriating on grass. So this September I dug out all the useless clay soil around my patio and replaced […]
Read more »One morning last year, I got up before dawn to move my truck so I wouldn’t get a street cleaning ticket. I swung the door open and gasped. There he was, my neighbor’s raccoon. She had told me recently that there was a family of them living under her house. He was sitting on my […]
Read more »In 2003 Andy Roddick won the US Open in straight sets, becoming the youngest ever world’s number one. Watching the trophy ceremony that year it was easy to imagine that this was a coronation and there would be many more major wins for the young American with the huge serve. And then Roger Federer became […]
Read more »#27 Because they play team sports in the air. It’s true, I witnessed this myself a few years ago. Hiking in a windy valley I saw 8 or 9 crows flying and swooping high above me, chasing each other. I stopped to watch and realized they weren’t just randomly flying, they were playing catch with […]
Read more »I was waiting at a stop light one afternoon when a big hawk dropped out of the sky in front of my windshield. He snatched a pigeon out of mid air and landed with it on the roof of a car next to me. The light turned green and I drove away still watching the […]
Read more »Years ago a little Brazilian shop opened up next to the place I do yoga. The owner happened to live down the block from me and I would see her and her little black and white dog, PePe walking to the store each day. He was a blocky little Chihuahua mix that liked his freedom. […]
Read more »This weird thing happened a few months ago near my apartment. I saw a butt. It was shining in the sun on the sidewalk about a block away from me. People were walking by, glancing curiously at the butt and then moving on. A few gross guys were lingering, standing too close and discussing the […]
Read more »Just a quick note to let everyone know to check the events section of my website to find out where find me selling my stuff this summer. I’m adding on a bunch of new spinners, an expanded table set up and a lot of new product including magnets and some original art. See you soon!
Read more »Sometimes I slip down the social media rabbit hole, swiping through one successful and amazing artist or designer after another. I scroll through them all crying out, “Why them? Why not me? Why are they so lucky and successful and I’m not?” Then my honest self, my adult self, answers my question. “Well Sunde, maybe […]
Read more »My valentine has eight legs, two heads, floppy ears, velvet skin and drools when presented with string cheese. My valentine gets farty after eating eggs, is not a reader and can’t hold down a job. But my valentine is hopelessly devoted, has endless kisses and never judges me. My valentine loves car rides, long walks […]
Read more »Ollie is one of my favorite dogs ever. He’s like a prickly uncle to my dogs, Jasmine and Ree Ree. I’m not going to lie, he’s grumpy and also mean to all dogs that aren’t mine. He will still, as a senior, bark and growl at dogs until his back legs give out. But over […]
Read more »A couple of years ago an airplane crash landed at the San Francisco airport. Witnesses described it as “cartwheeling” down the runway. Cartwheeling. So now, whenever I fly, no amount of wine spritzers or expired pain killers from the dentist can erase that phrase from my memory.
Read more »don’t know if there’s a god and I’m not at all religious but this thing happened to me a couple of years ago that made me a little bit more of a believer. I’m going to preface this story by admitting that, at the time of the incident, I was listening to a lot of […]
Read more »Thank You San Francisco! There’s this weird thing that people in San Francisco do that I think is really condescending, disingenuous and gross but also funny and ridiculous. Instead of taking their old used filthy junk to the dump they pretend like they’re doing everyone a huge favor by offering it to us…for FREE! They […]
Read more »An Open Letter: Dear City of Pacifica, I was wondering if you could please not do an extra long and louder than usual emergency alarm test siren the day after the President threatens earth with nuclear war in a snarky tweet. I have experienced your weekly emergency siren test many times over the […]
Read more »The only thing worse than losing our beautiful, brave, perfect dog Dee Dee after 17 years was living in a still, dogless apartment afterwards. The very soul of our home had disappeared. The grief was overwhelming and paralyzing, but the void of having no dog at all was unbearable. I started trolling pitbull rescue websites […]
Read more »See’s Candy is a glorious holiday mystery. It’s easy to identify your favorites but what about the pieces that you aren’t as familiar with? People have a lot of identification strategies but I disapprove of all of them. Here are my do’s and dont’s. When it comes to See’s Candy you have to take responsibility […]
Read more »I love See’s Candy. I was a sugar restricted kid that looked forward to the holidays every year so I could get my three pieces of See’s candy from the 2 pound box. (I have a big family). I grew up studying and mapping out the candy box so that none of my precious chocolate […]
Read more »When my first dog Dee Dee was very old and couldn’t walk far, I would take her to the beach every day. She would totter along until she didn’t feel like it anymore. Then we’d sit together for an hour or so in the sand. She’d lift her face to the sun and sniff the […]
Read more »Pigeons enjoy eating vomit here. Especially drunk, Saturday night burrito barf. (It’s the beans!) Save
Read more »Surfing for the Resistance The night President Pussgrab McGrifter was voted into office I threw up my chicken sandwich and went for a long, panic stricken walk. I cried for days and then became pissed off and outraged and wandered around talking to my TV and Twitter feed. Then my outrage evolved into purpose and […]
Read more »Hello! I’m working on a zine about all my years surfing in San Francisco. It’ll have illustrated stories, cartoons, art and a graphic novel surfer spy series. Here’s one of the stories for you to enjoy! Seals Are Weird! A sexual harassment story from the sea. I hate seals. There, I said it. I’m more […]
Read more »As part of our switch to doing all sales in house and not going to trade shows anymore, I thought I should jazz up my in store sales strategy. So here you go! It’s a super cute sales display cabinet named Roger. Stay tuned to all of his adventures. He will charm your pants […]
Read more »2016 was a weird one. We lost so many rad people. Here’s some portraits of them. Wishing everyone a beautiful and inspiring 2017–no matter what the political climate is, great art and ideas can still be made.
Read more »Well I’m really excited for January because I’m coming out with four 8×10 inch lithograph prints and three 10×14 inch lithograph prints. What’s a lithograph? It’s the same as offset printing. It provides the sharpest, brightest, clearest image possible out of any other printing method. Even the best digital printers can’t duplicate the clarity of […]
Read more »Hello! I am working on new greeting cards for spring, including a graduation/congratulations card that I’m really pumped about featuring this victorious squirrel. And then I’ll probably have 3 or 4 new birthday cards too. A couple of the birthday cards I’m working on are exceptionally kooky but I’m going to do them anyway because […]
Read more »I have an email newsletter now! Don’t worry, they’re not boring and I don’t send them out constantly. I’m really having fun with them being funny and interesting too. Each one has a new header and bottomer(???? what’s the right word for that?) that I make especially for the newsletter. These were the images for […]
Read more »School isn’t right for everybody. Richard Branson has dyslexia so school sucked for him. He dropped out at 16 to start a youth magazine. Then he formed the Virgin Group which consists of over 400 businesses. He’s now a philanthropist that does nutty things like try to fly around the world in a hot air […]
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