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Out for an Evening Scroll

Where there is a place to go online there is a place online to go. Google is its usual flat rainbow of primary colors today. No holiday, no inventor’s birthday. I go to Facebook where I can see my family; Bernie and Hillary are there, and the silent screams of fingers heard around the web are […]

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America Travel

Does Silicon Pave Over Gold? Part Two

Day 2 The morning of Sunday, February 22nd began with Kate and myself around 7 AM, waking up in our cozy double-mattress at Green Tortoise Hostel, and a somewhat rude awakening of club music outside, coming from the club across the street. It had been thumping until closing hours but resumed thumping at legal opening […]

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Recollections From San Francisco: First Impressions Make a Rough Draft

What I recall now, a few weeks after a trip to San Francisco, is how quickly it went as a whole but how still the moments of the day seemed, as we walked without an itinerary up and down the hills of the city, drenched in uninterrupted sunlight. The four day-long vacation, respite, honeymoon, exploration, […]

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America Travel

Does Silicon Pave Over Gold? Part One

A Travelogue in San Francisco, Day 1. My recent trip to San Francisco, joined by Editor and Partner, Kathleen Dolan, came as a consequence of curiosity, nostalgia, a need for new scenery, and an experiment with travel writing. News articles have been flowing for several years concerning the gentrification of Bay Area cities, not necessarily […]