Red Sun Over San Francisco
A week after the Camp Fire started the air quality is still really bad in the Bay Area. It feels like this is our new normal.
Author: noemikjames
Chilly
September and October are always warm months in the Bay Area. And after the foggy, windy summer the 70-degree days are welcome. But by mid-November I’m al...
Lust for Stuff
My desire to buy things is crazy these days. I want to buy all the things. I don’t need any of the things, but I want to buy them. A few of them cost a lo...
Screen Time
I discovered the Screen Time app on my phone last night. I saw it by accident, as I scrolled past the gray boxes that show up when you (accidentally) right swip...
Alarms off
I very much appreciate that tomorrow is a day off. I just turned off my weekday alarms, which means I might be able to sleep until 6:30am. How exquisite. Yes, a...
Shelter in Place
The air quality in the Bay Area has been so bad these past two days that we aren’t supposed to be outside. At my school this protocol is called Shelter in...
Ah shoot!
Well it’s only Nov 9th and I already missed two days! In a row! Tuesday night I just couldn’t write. My mind was all over the place with election re...
Lonely and Isolated
As I mentioned before, I’ve been feeling really lonely and isolated lately. I’m not sure quite why. Starting about a year ago, maybe more, I finally...
White Belt
In September, my kids and I started taking martial arts classes at a dojo in the Mission. I wasn’t sure at first if I would also participate, but after ta...
Time Change Complaints
I loathe when the time changes, but I love Daylight Savings. I wish we could just keep Daylight Savings all year round. I would much rather it get lighter later...