Category: General Musings - Nowtopian

A Numbing Spectacle

I’ve been away from the blog again, this time absorbed in preparing some new content for a 2nd edition of Hidden San Francisco, forthcoming in 2025. But I should be able to crank out a few posts in the next week or two… we’ll see.

The view from my petanque court…

I’m in […]

War Is the Air We Breathe

I’m sitting in an old 1830s farmhouse near the border between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. It’s over 90° and quite humid, as it has been since I arrived five days ago. It seems the heat wave will only intensify in the next days. I spent a lot of time here in the 1980s and early […]

And Yet, We Go On

Difficult to sit down and begin writing. Not so much a writer’s block. I just find everything that I might write a bit distant and empty in light of living in a country that is actively supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Waking up to the daily reality of tens of thousands of murdered civilians, […]