On an unusually warm October day, shortly before the Pandemic sucked the fun out of everything, my friends and I were onboard a wine and food cruise headed from Alameda to San Francisco, a few miles away.  Our boat, Cabernet Sauvignon, was the largest of the Commodore fleet with a capacity of 350.  The Commodore Continue reading

I was recently watching a documentary on San Francisco Chinatown’s struggle to build housing in the early 1970’s including the politics of fear that was part of that era and I was reminded of an afternoon spent there in 1969 with several of my army buddies. At the time, I was training troops at Fort Continue reading