This week my family and I were invited to Arguello restaurant in the Presidio. The Presidio, which is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, was a military post for 218 years. It spans 1,491 acres and is visited by over 5 million people a year. There are residents, commercial tenants, museums, recreational […]
Wish for It and Work for It (Wednesday Wishes)
I think wishing gets a bad rap and it’s not fair. It’s like when you say, “I wish…blah, blah, blah,” people assume that you’re lazy and want things to fall in your lap. Maybe some people use the word wish in that way, but not me. I wish for the things I want as a […]
Summer of Love Celebration (Sundays In My City)
San Francisco is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. In honor of that summer in 1967 when the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was a countercultural hub filled with artists, musicians, writers and activists keen on on challenging the status quo, the de Young Museum is hosting The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and […]
Elote Pizza Combines Mexican Street Corn and Pizza
Hola Chulas y Chulos! My flying chancla and I are over here salivating because we are hungry and as we were going through the internet looking for things to share with you we came across elote pizza. Say what?! That’s like if one person was walking down the street chompin’ on elote and bumped into […]
Nothing Wrong with Wishing and Praying (Wednesday Wishes)
“Why not pray?” someone asked on Facebook when I put out a call for wishes and my friend Sabz responded with, “Why not do both? Nothing wrong with wishing and praying.” Agreed. Or why not let me call it wishing and you can call it praying? Honestly, it’s the same thing. It’s all about putting […]


