Another Reason To Live In California
Debi and I headed over to Frye’s to pick up a new computer to replace her aging laptop. As we got out of the car to walk into the store, we stopped for a moment to contemplate the Silicon Valley sunset.
Debi and I headed over to Frye’s to pick up a new computer to replace her aging laptop. As we got out of the car to walk into the store, we stopped for a moment to contemplate the Silicon Valley sunset.
During the weekend of the Alcatraz race, we walked across the small park next to the Courtyard by Marriott to “Joni’s,” a perfect little coffee-shop and restaurant. It had simple and wonderful food — pancakes, eggs, oatmeal, milk, fruit … you name it. Happily, we could sit outside, where, in the sun, it…
The Guadalupe River runs thru downtown San Jose, north to the San Francisco Bay. Several years ago, there was an effort to reclaim a rather trashed and squalid riverfront and turn it into a combination park and flood control zone. We enjoy the park frequently, as it runs close to our home and into the…
I just ported a page over I created last year on Willisdomain — one which reflects further steps on a spiritual journey. See http://www.waynegwillis.com/new-earth. I wanted to preserve it, as I still think it’s important. I had to stick it on a separate “page” — it won’t fit in this column. Maybe I’ll have…
This is an awesome song from Coldplay’s new Album, Mylo Xyloto It’s Us Against The World Oh morning come bursting, the clouds, Amen. Lift off this blindfold, let me see again And bring back the water, let your ships roll in. In my heart she left a hole The tightrope that I’m walking just sways…
San Francisco has recently created a walking tour of the downtown area, the Barbary Coast Trail ™, bringing tourists and others face to face with the history of our town. It was modeled on Boston’s Freedom Trail, and gives the adventurous pedestrian an efficient and annotated path thru areas where the Gold Rush started, where…
We live adjacent to downtown San Jose, in a new townhouse/condo development called Mariani Square. It is part of the Japantown district — so named owing to the, ahem, concentration of Japanese people living here in the 20th century (and still today). Even though this is “brownfield” urban land, I’m amazed at the flowers…