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Roz Chast and Alison Bechdel memoirs
Wills, DNRs, power of attorney, mobility issues, all of the problems that we all spend our lives trying to avoid thinking about and planning for come out in this beautiful memoir If you’re over 50, you absolutely have to read this.
Read MoreDrash of Rivaleah Imber Safdar
“Whether or not you are Jewish, sometime in your life you must have felt that feeling of not belonging, or not feeling welcome. Maybe it was your first day at your new school, or you just got hired for a new job and everyone there knows everyone else, except for you. “
Read MoreFire season photos
2020 (taken out of my kitchen window)
Read MoreBullying and your kids in the San Francisco Unified School District
Sadly, I have come to learn more than I want to about how bullying complaints are handled in the San Francisco Unified School District. Because kids begin committing suicide as young as ten years old due to bullying, you probably need to start paying attention to it sooner than you think. The most important thing…
Read MoreYes, to do lists are awful. But what’s better?
Late last week I read this article “To-do lists don’t work” published on the Harvard Business Review by Daniel Markowitz. Markowitz’s thesis is that todo lists don’t work because they leave too much of the prioritization of tasks to the “last minute mind”. In other words you have a moment, you look at your list,…
Read MoreDog bites 7 year old, owner flees before police can catch, Father’s Day (June 16, 2013) near 9th Ave and Irving
Today (Father's Day) my 7 year old son was bit by a German Shepherd outside Jamba Juice at the corner of 9th Ave and Irving St in the Inner Sunset neighborhood. The incident happened between 3 and 4pm. The owner was approached by my neighbor who fortuitously happened to be there with his…
Read MoreMilitary service of my grandfather, Jack Watson.
[You can read Jack’s obituary here. -Shabbir] Jack had a sizable military career, starting in World War 2 and running through 1965 when he finally retired as a Senior Master Sergeant of the Air Force. His whole military life he had been attached to Bomber squadrons. First the 305th Bomb Group at the end of…
Read MoreGrieving over the victims of the Newtown, CT shooting
If you follow me on Facebook, you may have noticed that I haven't had anything to say about gun laws in the wake of the Newtown, CT shooting. In fact, I haven't had much to say at all on the topic. It isn't the case that I have been "waiting for a more appropriate time".…
Read MoreSympathy cards and letters for families touched by the Newtown, CT school shooting
I'm not sure what anyone could do for the families touched by today's elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT. There are no answers that can make any of it make sense or make it right. However the few times I have grieved over the death of a loved one, having someone else express their condolences…
Read MoreWhy I’m giving my favorite gloves away
These are my favorite gloves. Sarah knitted them, and they're fingerless/thumbless, so you actually can do useful things with your hands. I'm giving them away (with Sarah's permission) to La Casa de las Madres so they can be gifted to a woman in their shelter system who has lost everything in order to save her…
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