You know how sometimes you find yourself thinking, "For the past 18 years I've lived 10 miles or less from here. How on earth have I never been here before?"*

Well, a couple of weeks ago Pirate and I finally made our way over to Rainbow Grocery.

Wow.

Fantastic selection, easily as good as the Berkeley Bowl. Okay, no curry leaves, but you can't ( Read more... )

Mayor's committee: No ugly suicide barriers on Golden Gate BridgeIt's a bad idea to build 10-foot-tall railings and glass panels as suicide barriers on the Golden Gate Bridge, according to a committee organized by Mayor Gavin Newsom ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever stumbled into anything this wonderful while traveling:Several feet away sat a couple on vacation from Ireland who happened to stumble on the historic event. Christine Yearsley said she planned to stay at City Hall the rest of the afternoon to witness as much as she could ( Read more... )

So I had my first session at the Egoscue Clinic in San Francisco last Tuesday. The clinic is conveniently located, practically upstairs from the BART Montgomery station. You can't really tell from the photos on their website, but the space is open and airy, with lots of light ( Read more... )

Okay, the New England Yankee side of me thinks it's much too soon to be posting anything about this. However, spiritualmonkey has been nudging me to write something. So consider this a preliminary report.

I recently got the book Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain by Pete Egoscue (pronounced ee-GOSS-kyoo, apparently) from the library last ( Read more... )

Okay, now this is more like it:

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