When wishing doesn’t make it so. The other day I was walking down Harrison Street in San Francisco. In front of me was a lady sweeping the sidewalk. I assumed she worked for the business and was cleaning the area. But when I looked down I noticed she was barefoot…

Since 2017, I’ve had a oral history project idea about the beginnings of the Marina District in San Francisco after the Pan-Pacific Exposition. However, I recently decided to scrap it. I realized that there’s no interest in it. Perhaps the prevailing stereotype that the Marina is elitist overshadows any of…

Back in 2015, I first published this review about the book, There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me by Brooke Shields. I grew up about the same time as Brooke Shields (I’m just a little older). And so, I was around to witness her…

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anais Nin For years, I have been talking about memoirs, whether it be when I was helping others write theirs or when I wrote my own. Simultaneously, I had to convince people that it’s okay to reminisce…

School Should Be About Academics as at Lowell High School “Try Harder!” is a new film that gives an inside look at the students at San Francisco’s Lowell High School before the changes from its merit-based admissions. Released last December, the timing of this film couldn’t be better. The school…

Are you suffering from spiritual warfare? Are you close to God? Just a wannabe? A maybe? Or an “I don’t know?” Whether you know it or not, some of the struggles you have had in life could have been spiritual ones, even if you don’t consider yourself a religious person. …

What you expose your mind to matters. I choose “Seinfeld”. “Seinfeld” is still one of my favorite TV shows. It actually made me discover that I had some neuroses, but it also made me laugh at them. Watching “Seinfeld” became very therapeutic, and continues to, in reruns. I discovered a…

A revealing representation of the everyday working world for women, set in a strip club. For starters, some men might not like this film. However, others might have some new awakenings and empathize with the women characters just as they do with the women in their own lives. The women…

Somehow in this man’s world, women often end up, in their later years, alone. PERFUME DE GARDENIAS is a new film by Macha Colón. It’s about a woman named Isabel (Luz María Rondón), who is in her 80s. After her husband passes away, she discovers she is no longer needed…