Behold! The start of a whole new year! I set a goal for the entire year, which is a minimum of 15 minutes of movement every day. So we started it off with a January 1st run! Followed up by tacos in the Mission, as inspired by our return from Mexico City just the day…
December recap! What a month. We were somehow traveling half the time and yet still had such an abundance of wonderful adventures with our friends here at home. Jumping right in, here’s our flight home from our honeymoon to Portugal and the Canary Islands, passing through NYC. Library date with Cassie, visiting the brand new…
Welcome to my November recap! We start with a wonderful Office of Accountability meeting. My brother-in-law’s birthday! And a check-in with Tiffany. Visited the Hoover Institute at Stanford for a special screening of Invisible Nation, an insightful and heartfelt documentary about Taiwan. Taiwanese America unite! (Photo from Ho Chie). This was a month of multiple…
October recap! We began with a San Francisco Symphony concert Featuring a San Francisco premiere of “Herald, Holler and Hallelujah!” by Wynton Marsalis and a classic, the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Office of Accountability Our first visit to the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at SFMOMA. These pumpkins look very round in photos, but you might be surprised at…
Thanks to my lovely clients who invited me up to photograph their session at Sea Ranch, Alex and I made a whole weekend of it and enjoyed a wonderful road trip up the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts and Anderson Valley. In fact, it was much like our road trip just over a year before, when…
September in the Bay! This was also the month we went to Los Angeles and New York, and yet we still managed to pack so much in to the rest of the month too. Starting with the Office of Accountability’s monthly meeting. Hosted by Eileen, shortly before she moved into her new house! Kina Grannis,…
August, my friends! It was a very full month for us in the Bay, since we were actually around for the whole month, minus one road trip up to Davis, which I’ve still included in the Bay Area recap below. First, a little sewing project for some dear friends of mine! This was a pattern…
We started July in Calgary, and we toted home some of the souvenirs below: a stack of records, and some dove-shaped coffee filters! And the next day, we stopped by Matt Horn’s fried chicken spot Kowbird in Oakland on the way to Napa. Wine tasting at Ashes & Diamonds And a wedding rehearsal for Whitney…
June recap! Here are a handful of our moments around the Bay Area. First, dinner at Camper in Menlo Park. We walked around town and stumbled upon Abraham Vergese’s book talk at Kepler’s Bookstore. Also found this fun Lonely Planet book called “Where to Go When” that recommends travel destinations based on the month! Pretty…
May! A.k.a. wedding month, when we had our wine country celebrations. More on that at some later time, but here’s a look at the rest of the month in the Bay Area. Mom is in town! I took her to eat lobsters and to visit the Apple Park visitors center. They give you an iPad…
April! A month of treasure hunts and low-key hangouts with friends. Let’s jump right in! A bike ride to Wise Sons at the Ferry Building Farmers Market, with a stop by the Patagonia in Fisherman’s Wharf, napa cabbage in tow. The Wolverine Way, as read by this newly minted Michigan fan. And our final destination:…
Hello March! We went to both Arizona and Wyoming in this month, but there were so many wonderful little gatherings around the Bay Area too. Let’s jump right in! Monthly accountability meeting, with some folks gathering in Oakland and the rest of us joining from the internet. Dinner and mahjong with the Garrisons, featuring some…