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 ...
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 ...
For many high school biology students, dissecting a frog is an unpleasant rite of passage. But for Shirley Lowe, the exploration of amphibian physiology “was fascinating, seeing all of its parts and how they were interconnected.” Her skill and enthusiasm led to a student award and a decision to major in clinical laboratory science in ...
When he was young, Joe Catalano loved to “play with words,” and some of his earliest childhood memories, he said, are of writing. But college, a career, and family intervened and he “put down his pen” for decades. Now 76 and retired after a long career practicing law, Catalano can be found writing, editing, and ...
Jeff Weston, who has been teaching photography part-time at City College of San Francisco since 1988, said people can learn photography easily by watching a video on YouTube. But that, he said can be lonely. Especially for seniors. As for what to photograph, he suggested just walking around the neighborhood. “We all like to think ...
“Bali Ha’i” the ballad from “South Pacific,” one of Tina Martin’s favorite Broadway musicals, beckoned her to “come away, come away … to me … your special island.” She followed that lure – of everything foreign – to live in Mexico in her junior year of college and after college, in Tonga, Spain and Algeria. ...
