Sunny Side Up

Another marine layer-clouded afternoon at Torrey Pines, this time the beach. Several cliff falls on the better-known more colorful north pa...

Through a Facebook page maintained by UCSD's International Center, I've found a 语伴   yuban  (language partner) just as my textbook ...

Torrey Pines Reserve and Beach on a somewhat gloomy afternoon,  my first time in a while. There's not much to see in mid-August! Manz...

Finished two big books today - in fact, three. (The third is Evan Osnos' The Age of Ambition , which I read on kindle.) But this sounds...

Today brought to a close a very enjoyable trip to the San Francisc Bay Area - happy reunions with old friends all the while getting to know...

A week in the Bay Area allows one to get caught up on coffee house trends - Philz, Blue Bottle, Arti's, each with its own time-cons...

seen from Oakland

These wonders, which look for all the world like glass sculptures, are also known as by-the-wind sailors. I remember encountering on ou...

Found my way today to Grace Cathedral (Episcopal) in San Francisco, where 2013 artist in residence Ann Patterson has installed 20 miles...

Three museums in one - natural history, history, art!

Went to the beautiful Buddhist - pardon me - Asian Art Museum in San Francisco today! It seemed a Buddhist art museum not just because muc...

I must be on vacation as I saw two tongue-in-cheek series-starting superhero blockbusters today: Marvel's "Guardians of the Galax...

Berkeley is a very pretty place - everything seems not only to grow here but to be in bloom! - and turns out to be good place for hiking it...

Greetings from overflowingly floral Berkeley! (I've come up to the Bay Area for a week seeing old friends.) Berkeley Ros...