Category: Family

  • Tales of Privilege

    Here’s my latest on Medium:

    Much has been said recently about privilege and, specifically, white male privilege. How it feeds into the success of many people, especially those who benefit from institutions that privilege whiteness, maleness, and more specifically, maleness that falls within the strict bounds of gender and sexuality norms. It has been said that it’s impossible to separate the role of privilege from one’s success. That they are tightly coupled, and to suggest that one can have success without acknowledging the role of social privilege is highly disingenuous and tantamount to thievery. In other words, check your privilege. This is an attempt to put my story in this context and to show how conventional wisdom doesn’t always apply to individual stories.

    Read the complete post.

  • THE NUTCRACKOLYPSE

    Gather around, children, as I tell the tale of the… bum bum BUM… NUTCRACKOLYPSE!

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  • Buh-bye, Bay Area; Hello, Boston!

    100 Manzanita Ave.After 17 years in the Bay Area (for me) and almost 30 years for Cathy, we’ve decided to unhitch our wagons and do the reverse westward-ho. As Californians like to say, we’re going “back east.”

    Our house in lovely San Carlos, CA just went on the market yesterday. You may wish to buy it, if you’re fast enough – the first open house is tomorrow, Saturday, June 2.

    The realtor’s web site can be found at 100manzanita.com

    100 Manzanita Ave., San Carlos, CA