Fun, watch out!

Don’t check this out unless you want to be addicted to a very fun and beautiful moving interactive thang!
You can thank Nancy Margulies for this! http://www.zefrank.com/byokal/kal2.html

Reiko’s glass kimono

Reiko Fujii, a fellow JFKU arts and consciousness alumni, is exhibiting her art piece, Glass Ancestral Kimono, mixed media, 2002. It is part of a group show at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. Reiko is an Asian American artist and explores issues about her identity in relation to her family, her Japanese ancestry [...]

Glass gardens and more at de Young Museum

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We went to opening night of Chihuly at the de Young, June 14 - September 28 and it was spectacular. The de Young did not disappoint with the terrific lighting and installation that really showed of the beauty of the magical environments [...]

Dad the Doer

In honor of Father’s Day I’m writing about my dad today. My dad just turned 80 years old last month and I think he looks young and handsome for his age. For his big birthday, some of the kids wanted to take him out for a nice dinner with some of his friends, but dad [...]

Healing arts at the Asian Art Museum, SF

Healing Arts
Thursday, June 5
5 to 9 pm
FREE with Museum Admission ($5 after 5 pm)
The Asian Art Museum kicks off its third season with multi-sensorial offerings of healing
arts from all over Asia: acupuncture, cupping, Japanese shiatsu, Thai foot massage,
and more. Sample tea, check out medicinal herbs from China, Japan, India and Tibet,
have your pulse diagnosed, tour [...]

Shirley’s mom

I had put out a call for “mother stories” around Mother’s Day and Shirley McClure responded with a story below. Thanks Shirley!
I remember being with my mom before I went to kindergarten and her teaching me how to write my name and a few other things that were about numbers. She spent time with me [...]

Invitation to write a story about your mother

Since Mother’s Day is coming up, maybe you are thinking about your mom like I am.
I’d like to invite you to write a story, an experience about your mother. It could be a story you heard or an interaction you had with her. Anything really that you would like to share. You could add it [...]

Where kids can have fun and mom can shop

One of the best store environments I have seen in a while! The Pt Reyes Surf Shop has a sand box in front of their dressing room, complete with a slide. My guess is many surfing mom and dads or maybe just parents that want to browse at cool clothes, come here and have a [...]

Invite your favorite senior to our 5/8 performance and luncheon

Lisa Petrides and Judy Shintani are performing “Honoring Grandmothers from Far Lands” again, this time at the Ted Adcock Senior Center in Half Moon Bay at 12:20pm, May 8th. The performance is part of the Mother’s Day Luncheon which starts at noon. This event is organized by the Senior Coastsiders.
“It is interesting how much a [...]

A family resemblance

My cousins, sisters Sue Ann and Janice, and My Aunt Yo (87 years young) and I recently go together and took advantage of a photo op. We gathered with many other family members at a one year anniversary of my Aunt Mich’s death. That may sound like a solemn affair, but it also was a [...]