The Wrong People Call the Shots

Two things have taken up a lot of my attention recently and made me wonder why the decision making in this country is done by people who know so little about the consequences and folly of their decisions. The most pressing thing concerns ArtHouse, my nonprofit for co-op artists’ housing and venues in San Francisco,… Continue reading The Wrong People Call the Shots

Because It’s December

Because It’s December As the calendar year comes to an end, Americans are inclined to think more than usual about money. Depending on one’s circumstances, thinking about money takes many forms. One of them, that includes so many of us, is Christmas spending, which imposes a different form of stress in every part of the… Continue reading Because It’s December

Zone Trip #4

The caravan of ill-assorted vehicles assembled at the baseball diamond in Golden Gate Park as a late-summer dusk promised a fine night for entering the unknown. As always, when a Cacophony Society Zone Trip called adventurers to leave San Francisco, the stragglers came late, and the last-minute preparations detained us further.