This Date in UCSF History: Celebrating the Year of the Snake
[Originally published in on February 7, 2013.] Welcome to the Year of the Snake! Snake is the yin to last year’s Dragon yang. That said, Snake does not settle for mediocrity, either.
Summer
Laughter bouncing off living room walls, Faces enter then exit stage left and right, Students rushing from one scene to...
Roots Before Branches
Within just 2 miles of my Sunset neighborhood home, I can explore the eerie and often fog-ridden greenery of Mount...
One Day We Woke Up on Mars
One September, we woke up to find that something was wrong with the light. We had become more and more...
Triptych
I glanced across the road at my reflection. the way she looked hazy, i doubted she was real. swathed in...
Ascend or Descend
[Part 5 of a photo series on life after 2020.] Leaving the country for the first time after 2020, it’s...
Best Nightmare
This means war, blues versus red. No guns, less germs, But plenty of steel. There will be blood, I fear...
Better Than a HEPA Filter
[Part 4 of a photo series on life after 2020.] When I stepped onto a boat for the first time...
Could Use a Little Magic Here
[Part 3 of a photo series on life after 2020.] There was one week in 2021 when even San Francisco...
The Weights On Either Side
Before twenty five I have Seen towers fall and dictators rise As if history is a lever that seeks equilibrium...