Sue Trupin spent more than a decade living in a countercultural enclave in Canyon, a community in rural Contra Costa County. She had gardens, goats, and chickens, and harvested vegetables. She harvested walnuts and fetched food from the bins at the back of grocery stores. “We lived on very little; it was part of that ...
The difficulties that pregnant women face in impoverished parts of the world can seem overwhelming. But Stacey Ramirez, who has worked for years to improve those conditions on three continents, calls herself “a hopeless optimist.” “I have to believe that we can get to a place that is beautiful for all of us,” she said. ...
As a boy, James Campbell spent after-school hours in his mother’s lab. Ruth Campbell was a doctor, the pathologist for Indiana’s South Bend Clinic. “She also had a mini lab at home with a microscope, slides, and lots of medical books, which I would pore over,” Campbell said. He was a natural to study medicine. ...
It’s a shocking and head-spinning image: A Jew in a German officer’s uniform is being ministered to by a Jewish concentration camp inmate. The officer is a mischlinge, a German with Jewish blood who was allowed to serve in the German military during parts of World War II. That image is at the heart of ...
SF SENIORBEAT GUEST COLUMN – There’s a corner of Gen Z internet culture that has popularized the trope of the ‘old soul’ by embracing analog reality. These proclaimed “old souls” renounce social media and anything digital, instead opting for vintage vinyl or a hardbound book, for example. They’ve taken to the internet in droves, insisting ...
Sharon Yow’s father drove a truck and tried his hand at farming. Her mother worked a switchboard and became an accountant. But while they labored at low-paying jobs, Yow’s parents drilled one lesson into her: “Education is your key. Do well in school!” It was a lesson she took to heart. The first in her ...
