Every year, after the rush of the holidays and the countdown into a new year, I take the opportunity to celebrate my January birthday with a creative party, and I set off on my next spin around the sun with a few of my favorite people. In the past, I have hosted a moody dinner…
Our neighborhood walking tours began in December 2020, borne out of pandemic restlessness and a desire to trick myself out of hibernation and into exploring my surroundings (safely) again. I researched free walking tours or assembled various articles and book chapters to make up my own background reading on various places around the San Francisco…
Just like that, we slipped into a new year. We were down in Cupertino for the first couple of days, where Alex got to try out his new barbecue smoker. A visit to Larkspur, where the trees roam the streets. And a walk around Mission Bay. Weekly Whitney chat. Weekly Talya chat. More scenes from…
I am often quite happy to hibernate and never go outside– especially in the winter, but I’ll admit, generally too. This serves me well during a shelter-in-place pandemic. Alex, however, dissolves away inside. He says he is fine with staying in, but he is a natural extrovert, an outdoor person, and all of this has…
December was a full month, filled with holiday decor, videochats, bouncing between San Francisco, Cupertino, and Oakland, and neighborhood walking tours, which I decided would be their own post. Recap below. Our Office of Accountability Friendsgiving went virtual this year. Here’s Do-Hee presenting my secret santa gift for Eileen — seeds, and this stack of…
This was such a sweet way to wrap up a very strange year. Christina and Kelvin decided to go for their personal trifecta in 2020: get engaged, buy their first house, and get married! All amidst a pandemic. On New Year’s Eve, just under the wire, we met in the back yard of their new…
It’s become a tradition of mine to collect small gifts along my travels throughout the year and to compile them into a holiday gift for my wedding clients. But given the unusual year in 2020, of course travel was greatly curtailed. So instead, I went in the opposite direction and curated a set of very…
Wine country in the fall. Here is a little peek at a short day trip we took up to Healdsburg, California, just to pick up some wines and to grab a snack atop Singlethread’s temporary roof bar. First, a stop at the Petaluma Seed Bank to pick up some new seeds for our spring plantings–…
I am delighted to share today this hearty dose of sunset magic and a brilliant love story that survives nine years of long distance and includes a marriage proposal in a lavender field which each of them had driven over ten hours to reach, in the midst of a pandemic. Cynthia and Erik met in…
It was an unexpected year, to say the least. But still, second by second, we got through it. From the surprisingly “normal” times pre-pandemic through the endless days of quarantine, here is a look back at the year, one second at a time. For previous years, see 2019, 2018, and 2017. Anna Wu is a wedding…
November recap! We began the month back in San Francisco upon our return from Paso Robles and got to enjoy the ollalieberry pie we brought back from Avila Valley Barn. Katsu sandos from Cafe Okawari, and lamb tamales from our weekly Imperfect box. Office of Accountability, with baby M! Weekly Whitney chat Got some fabric…
We have been all about the California road trip this year. A couple months ago, we headed south, about three hours south of San Francisco, to Paso Robles and the surrounding Central Coast areas. It made for a wonderful long weekend excursion. Our first stop was Bruce Munro’s Field of Light at Sensorio. It’s a…