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The day after Lynne Kaufman retired in 2005, she woke up in tears. “What had I done?”...
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A months-long campaign by advocates for seniors, the disabled and other vulnerable populations has convinced San Francisco's...
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If you grow up in Los Angeles, where do you find the wild? Norm Gershenz is not...
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During the day, you’ll find Thomas Drohan in court or at his law office on Mission Street....
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Like some people need coffee, Joan Wong needs to walk – and talk. Mornings, she puts in...
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Joe Edley tucks his co-authored book, “Everything Scrabble,” under his arm and surveys the room. Around him,...
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EDITOR'S NOTE: See full profiles of the seniors interviewed by clicking links within the story. A panoply...
One day in 1993, on her daily walk from her Richmond District home to Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake, Nancy DeStefanis spotted a Great Blue Heron in a nest with two gigantic chicks, standing up, beaks wide open, waiting to be fed by both father and mother. She was able to identify the wading birds ...
If you grow up in Los Angeles, where do you find the wild? Norm Gershenz is not talking ”bright lights, big city” wild, he’s talking “lions and tigers and bears” wild. Although he had a typical urbanized childhood, Gershenz says he couldn’t wait to leave home at 17 for San Francisco State University, “where it ...
During the day, you’ll find Thomas Drohan in court or at his law office on Mission Street. But on many Tuesday nights, he’s playing the standup bass at the Page Bar, a neighborhood watering hole on the edge of the Upper Haight. Drohan, 68, an attorney for more than three decades, is the director of ...
Like some people need coffee, Joan Wong needs to walk – and talk. Mornings, she puts in two to three miles a day up and down the hills of Glen Park Canyon near her home. Afternoons, you’ll find her strolling the neighborhood with her dogs, greeting friends, and chatting up strangers. But her superpower, she ...
Joe Edley tucks his co-authored book, “Everything Scrabble,” under his arm and surveys the room. Around him, players sit with boards arranged and tiles upright on their racks. He begins gently — reviewing short words, simple combinations — then quickly moves deeper into board control, opening strategy, and the subtle art of rack management. Earlier, ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: See full profiles of the seniors interviewed by clicking links within the story. A panoply of health issues, including slow-moving Parkinson’s, and kidney disease, prompted Jody Reiss, a retired therapist and AIDS educator, to move into an assisted living facility – at the relatively young age of 68. Most residents are 75 or ...
