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Bird in the Tree

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Deborah Crooks on living creatively in San Francisco

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  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 14:21 in food, community

    I'm not 'going home' or taking a plane anywhere for Thanksgiving. With siblings scattered about if not necessarily far and wide, the day is about friends and local community this year...and as always, pie. I'm making both pumpkin and apple this year ...

  • Grace Woods: On the busines of creating

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 16:07 in music, events, san francisco, songwriting, interviews

    Equal parts jazz singer and pop stylist, vocalist/musician Grace Woods has found a way to keep the passion of creation going while maintaining a quality that can be all too rare in an artist: realism. About to debut a new CD at San Francisco's Great ...

  • Read.Eat.Listen: ode to small

    Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 23:54 in music, food, literary, read.eat.listen

    My friend (& violin player) Yoon-Ki and her husband Koji just welcomed a new little baby. Shin'iji came in the world much earlier than expected and was less than 5lbs when he was born. I visited him & his mom at the preemie ward a few days be...

  • First pink, then green?

    Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 23:51 in community, sustainable living, code pink, green festival, social action

    I did a wee bit of tabling on Sunday for Code Pink, the women-led grassroots peace & social justice movement, who were among the many exhibitors at the Green Festival. The Green Festival was a hall of good intentions. People sharing, selling and ...

  • Beautiful Music: Blue Rabbit’s Gloriously Indie Muse

    Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 14:15 in music, events, san francisco, songwriting, interviews

    Past calling the band “indie,” San Francisco's Blue Rabbit defies easy categorization. Notable for its use of multi-part harmonies and keys, violin, cello, Celtic Harp and an uncanny ability to write memorable tunes, there’s simply no other ban...

  • Dreaming Big

    Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 20:33 in music, artists, yoga, community

    The beach makes me happy. Today, Ocean Beach was wild and windy with waves breaking 'triple overhead," according to a tired para-sail boarder who was filling me in on the sport (I've yet to try it). Large brown chunks of foam lined the beach and this...

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