New Orleans     Walking back into office this morning one of the first things I heard from one of our part-time web designers was her excitement at being accepted in graduate school in architecture (I had signed a recommendation for her), and the fact that the decision would be all about the money. Yesterday, Orell …

Pescadero     Emmett Aluli and I bolted down lunch to trudge through the dunes to the cliffs along the coast and finally scramble down along the rocks when we thought we finally saw first one elephant seal’s head popping up in the surf and then another much closer coming up and then submerging into the …

Pescadero      The Tides Network, including the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, is in retreat here some 30 miles south of Half Moon Bay, the port of choice for Sir Francis Drake on his voyage of exploration (i.e. piracy!) hundreds of years ago. Cell phones and blackberrys don’t work though I have an …