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Visitacion Valley Library
I mentioned in my last post that our new neighborhood library was opening at the end of July. Going from a small 2,00 square foot facility to a brand new 10,000 square foot building. I was there yesterday for the fifth(?) time since it opened. The change in atmosphere is amazing. Our old library was [...]
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Tags: Architecture, gentrification, library, san francisco, visitacion valley
gentrification (part 2)
In my last post on gentrification I wrote about changes happening in the commercial area to the south of my neighborhood. To the north of my’hood, there are even bigger changes in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. Photo by Eurofruit, on Flickr About 10 days ago, a new grocery store opened in southeast San [...]
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Tags: Architecture, bayview, fresh & easy, gentrification, san francisco, Third Street
Visitacion Valley Library weeks before completion I like my neighborhood. I am pretty sure that a lot of the people who live here would say the same thing. It’s not the busiest or the hot spot where everyone comes; in fact it’s not even on most maps that outsiders see of this fair city. Yet, [...]
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Tags: families, gentrification, urban life
What safety net?
Lately I have been thinking about the whole set up of nonprofit, community work in light of the the financial times we are in. I have been asking myself how did we get to a state that Wall Street CEOs, who don’t make any tangible product, earn so much more than average workers, then shelter [...]
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Tags: community, families, urban life
Speech to Virginia Girl Scouts
Photo by Francine Williams I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s 2011 Girl Leadership Recognition Ceremony April 9, 2011. This is the GS council that I grew up in and helped shape me into the person I am. It was a great honor, like giving a [...]
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Tags: Commonwealth Council, Girl Scouts, Gold Award, Virginia
When you can’t go home
I’ve been thinking a lot about home lately. Maybe it’s all the crisis happening all over the world – Japan, LIbya, Egypt…Maybe it’s that excitement about 5 teams from my home state making it the March Madness Dance and one looking like a Cinderella…..Maybe it’s family illness making me want to be there just to [...]
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Tags: Caribbean, home, montserrat, volcano
Yumm! February and March is one of the best times of the year. Young girls get to try their sales skills, math skills, organizations skills and probably their parents’ patience during the annual Girls Scout Cookie sale. For a little over six months, I have been co-leading my 4th grade daughter’s Girls Scout troop. It [...]
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Tags: food, Girl Scout cookies, Girl Scouts
