The Corona virus has forced this native Bay Area daughter of the early settlers in San Francisco to move out of state. I was interviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle about leaving, and the photo at the top of this post shows a bit of that. I left Oakland in April, and moved to my…
Tag: displacement
SOMA Photowalk
SOMA has changed, whole blocks are new, yet some of the flavor I like to find there survives. And some new life is changing this city once again. I suppose I should get used to that, but I would rather walk the streets looking for glimpses of my past there. Even if it wasn’t all…
A New Way of Looking at an Old Stomping Ground
SOMA, San Francisco, March 2019 A new job in a different part of San Francisco has me taking many photos on the way to work. And it has me remembering what this part of town looked like in my early twenties, circa 1989 to 1995ish. Things change, but the memory of what was there stays…
The Unreachable City as Seen in a Dream
Poem after reading back through headlines from Hoodline and 48 Hills over these past weeks this summer of 2016.Humor gets me through a lot these days. Recap of last 3 month’s worth news: every place closing that we used to know new places look ugly and just built for show with all of our heads…
