Early computer nerd – now a regular at future-focused public space with bar – slowly realized he “was in the middle of something big”

Contact her at myrakrieger@sfseniorbeat.com   When Theo Armour was a young boy, he played a lot, but not with the popular toys of the day like Mr. Potato Head, Silly Putty, or Hula Hoop. Even at six or seven, he said, he was doing “technical stuff.” “I was already playing with my calculators, using little baby computers,” ...

A life of resilience: Escaping Soviet antisemitism, Tatyana Yasnovsky built a life in San Francisco as she practiced psychiatry  

For Tatyana Yasnovsky, a retired psychiatrist and émigré from the former Soviet Union, her arrival in America in the mid-‘70s was fraught and unforgettable. “I had two little kids on my hands and we were very anxious about the prospect of living in America,” she said. Prompted to leave Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, to escape ...

Her name honors a famed New Zealand author. With her first novel published, Sally Abbott is also leading the life of a writer.

November 29, 2024 All Posts 0 Comments

Sally Abbott believes her role as a novelist was written before she was born. It started with her middle name: Abbott’s mother was so enamored of the renowned short-story writer Katherine Mansfield that she gave her second daughter the middle name “Mansfield.” To top it off, both Katherine and Sally were born in the same ...

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