A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Swim meet in the morning, birthday party in the afternoon — a full day. The meet ran long the way they do, heats going off one after another under the tents,…
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All City meet day. The girls were in their SSC suits and caps before the sun was fully up over the pool deck, faces painted, ready to go. The host pool keeps a…
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Middle of a few days on the lake, staying at a place on the Placer County side with a dock and a swim trampoline anchored off the end of it. Yesterday wound…
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The few days of eating around the Bay Area brought us out to Pittsburg, on the east shore in Contra Costa County, where the old downtown runs along Railroad…
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Art fair weekend in Kalamazoo — the Institute of Arts fair takes over Bronson Park downtown on the first Friday and Saturday of June, up to 145 juried artists…
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End-of-year performance at the elementary school here in Walnut Creek tonight. The auditorium was packed — we ended up behind a wall of heads, half the parents…
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Memorial Day went to the swim meet, all of it — canopies staked out on the grass by mid-morning, camp chairs, towels draped over everything and everyone. The…
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Out among the vineyards for a late May afternoon. The vines are well into their spring push now — full leaf on most rows, still that pale new green rather than…
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Never made it past the living room today, which was the point. San Francisco is two weeks out from SFMOMA's reopening — the Snøhetta expansion is finished, the…
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Family ski day at Squaw, all three of us, late enough in April that half the mountain was skiing in t-shirts. The trees were still loaded from whatever came…
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