Here’s Your Salads

I had planned my move to SF and a week before I planning on driving out, was in a small restaurant with a group of friends having a good-bye dinner. We had raised our wine glasses and ‘cheered’ my move to SF. As our glasses were IN THE AIR, (no lie) the server said ‘Oh, [...]

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Loma Prieta in Aromas

I had just moved to Aromas from Auburn California and I had just turned five years old. I was sitting in my back room playing with legos, facing the closet, when suddenly I get the unquestionable sense that aliens are landing on our roof. I looked up and everything in the closet fell forward and [...]

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I had already picked up my daughter at her day care center and had gone in the late afternoon to get my son at his kindergarten class. My son was the last student to be picked up.  His teacher and my kids and I were the only ones left in the classroom. As I spoke about [...]

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