The Lens: The above picture was taken at 11:00a.m. in San Francisco on September 9, 2020. There were no filters used, no Photoshopping. This very accurate image is what the camera on my phone captured. I woke up that morning…
A Summer Storm
The Lens: My windows (and, maybe more significantly, my shades) were all open as we were in the middle of a heat wave – atypical weather for San Francisco. I woke up somewhere around 3:30am. A bright flash, then another.…
The Evacuation
The Lens: We were living in San Bruno when, one night at dinner, the ground began to tremble accompanied by a growing roar. We were having an early dinner so we could get to my son’s back-to-school night. Instead we…
The Work from Home Meeting
The Lens: I am about my wits end with COVID. On this morning, I had a 9:00am “meeting” with my principal. (I put meeting in quotes because meetings are nothing like they used to be roughly 5 months ago.) I…