Throughout my life, I've had some great role models.  I attribute my getting through some of life's toughest times to those people I looked up to.  One of them was my grandmother.  Gram was in midlife when I was born -- just a few years ...

by Stowe Boyd, 156 South Park, San Francisco Google tells us the web is big, like we didn't know. Mostly their post seems like school yard posturing, especially given the hint that Arrington is making about some big news queued...

Sad to read on landing in San Francisco that Randy Pausch died today. If you only had a matter of months to live, this would be the way to live it. He made a difference.

So where are you going again, exactly?” My mother-in-law looks at me out of the corner of her eye. I shuffle my feet and mutter, “Erm, San Francisco.” “Yes, and… for what was it, again?”  Desperately I look around for...

What to Read this Weekend (according to Author, Laura Fraser) Laura Fraser knows best. Really. She’s an expert on books, writing, food, fashion, Italy, San Francisco, the list goes on. Her book, An Italian Affair, is one of my favorite memoirs e...

View of San Francisco from Pier 39 taken by Dana and shown here, with her permission, because she knows I.M. Adork! Dear BlogHers, As if my arrival into the crazy that is BlogHer wasn't manic enough -- seriously, flying 6...

...n rolled around my bag in Munich, Paris, Vic-sur-Cere, and back to Paris. I lifted it to my mouth on the day I was leaving for San Francisco, and then hesitated. My petite apfel/mela/pomme had made it this far; if I took it home, would it be the most well...

... sure had fun. I can always count on her to listen and to make an ass of herself right along with me.On our world wind trip to San Francisco, we spent a morning at Alcatraz. In the afternoon, instead of taking the hop on/hop off bus tour, we took the map ...

That’s me. There is a lot going on in this house and I won’t bore you with details but let me just tell you how freaked I am that I’m leaving in a week for San Francisco. Good lord! I’m not prepared whatsoever. So I’m going t...

...ctured next to me at ballgame at AT&T Park last summer) for 7:30pm next Monday, July 21, at John’s Grill in San Francisco. We’d like to [...]...

...hotography and Ratatouille with Pixar's DP, Sharon Calahan2006 | Culinary Muse2005 | Imperial Tea Court - Ferry Building - San Francisco - CA2004 | La Galere des Rois - Paris - France [Since Closed!]© 2008 Sam Breach© 2008 Sam Breach at "Becks ...

I was invited by Techvibes to write a blog post about the first ever Structure 08 conference hosted by GigaOM, which I attended and my company PEER 1 sponsored. It was held on June 25th in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center: Just got back ...

Where has a month gone?  It’s certainly been a busy one.  Of course there was Thanksgiving, and my son flying home from San Francisco to spend the holidays with us.  (All the while attached to his Blackberry, furiously texting and responding to e...