Contact her at naomimarcus@sfseniorbeat.com The patient stormed out of the doctor’s office and headed straight for the...
Contact her at myrakrieger@sfseniorbeat.com When Theo Armour was a young boy, he played a lot, but not with...
Peter Mundy wants nothing more than to educate, motivate, and mentor his young students -- and to...
For Tatyana Yasnovsky, a retired psychiatrist and émigré from the former Soviet Union, her arrival in America...
When he retired in 2009, Charles Vella began volunteering at the California Academy of Sciences. He became...
It was a rainy winter afternoon, and it wasn’t until Video Wave, the last standalone movie rental...
Have you ever wondered about retiring to Mexico? Not me, no expat life for me. But I...
Kathryn Santana Goldman showed an affinity for science as early as grammar school when she captured and...
It’s 11 o’clock on a Saturday morning and Janice Wallace is on Zoom hosting the Bay Area...
"Do what you want, and you will never work a day in your life." That old adage,...
Contact her at naomimarcus@sfseniorbeat.com The patient stormed out of the doctor’s office and headed straight for the reception desk, banging on the plexiglass partition that separates patients from receptionists in this busy Mission District primary care practice. Kattia Balestier, the lead front desk worker, looked up calmly at the 60ish, red-faced, glowering man. “You were ...
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,” ...
Peter Mundy wants nothing more than to educate, motivate, and mentor his young students — and to travel with them around the world. The 63-year-old Castro resident teaches seventh- and eighth-grade history at Cathedral School for Boys, where he’s worked for 27 years. He has taken his students on trips to Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and ...
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 ...
When he retired in 2009, Charles Vella began volunteering at the California Academy of Sciences. He became known as the “amateur paleontologist.” His first volunteer job was sorting freshwater snails in the basement, which he did for a year. Then with a week’s training, Vella became a docent for the Evolution Group on the main ...
It was a rainy winter afternoon, and it wasn’t until Video Wave, the last standalone movie rental store in San Francisco, had been open for about 30 minutes that the first customer wandered in. A young man named Mateo looked around and quickly spied a copy of “Extras,” a collection of episodes of an obscure ...
