The combination of Alan Bennett's writing and Patricia Routledge's acting could be sublime. (RIP Dame Patricia.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ6F...

Five years ago today, Trump announced that he'd contracted Covid. Among other things, I hoped it might alter his approach to Covid safety, or help him sympathize with essential workers, or soften his opposition to universal healthcare. None of the hoped-for outcomes of that situation came to pass.

In my early struggling-actor days, I twice found myself performing for an audience of one. And yet both times, I got more applause than Hegseth did today from an audience of 800.

Seen on my walk today. (Union Street between Pierce and Baker.) #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Seen on my walk today. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

To all those getting raptured today, may I please have your books? #booksky 💙📚

Seen on my walk today: beautiful flowers and beautiful lowriders. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Two years ago today, I completed one of my favorite projects, exploring California by visiting all 58 counties, all in under a year and without flying. It's a huge, beautiful, diverse place, and I was honestly unprepared for what an amazing experience it would be. #travel #California

Sorry for the occasion, but it's a relief to see my feed go from pictures of Charlie Kirk to pictures of Robert Redford.

"This has got to stop" is starting to sound like "thoughts and prayers".

For today's book group: peanut butter cake with caramel frosting. #baking 💙📚🍽️

I recently learned that Sylvester gave a concert in 1979 that filled San Francisco's opera house. I'm sometimes embarrassed to learn things I feel I should've known, but I'm happy that life still has treasures to discover. Sylvester, born this day in 1947. #lgbtq www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsUt...

Seen on my walk today. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Today at sunny Stanford. #tourism #California

Today in sunny Petaluma. #travel #California

A wildfire is raging in Washington State. On Wednesday, ICE agents showed up and started arresting the firefighters. Feel safer now? (photo from Seattle Times) #resist

Seen on my walk today, little blooms in the dunes (plus birds and bees). #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

As I try to wrap my mind around our current times, I've been reading a lot of non-fiction for context, including books about people who divisively seize power for themselves, laws be damned. I just finished this monumental Pulitzer-winning bio of J. Edgar Hoover. Highly recommended. #booksky 💙📚 💡📚

Studying abroad in 1986, I was so shocked to see a guard with an automatic weapon at the American Express office in Vienna that I snapped his picture. Looking back, I shake my head at how I pitied Europeans for living with such an armed presence. #resist

Were the Epstein files at John Bolton's house?

The Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt this afternoon. #bloomscrolling #Oakland

Gift card of the resistance. #resist

At the Chase Center this evening to see Heart. (I guess I was a little early.) #SanFrancisco #Heart

Today I visited a brass disc installed in a sidewalk by the Department of Public Works to mark the geographic center of the city. A quirky little novelty, but a nice hike. #SanFrancisco

Seen on my walk today. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Today I hiked out to Fort Point to take pictures for the Save Our Signs project, documenting National Park signage that is threatened with being altered or removed by Trump's new "anti-woke", anti-history policies. sites.google.com/umn.edu/save... #SaveOurSigns #Resist #SanFrancisco

Seen on my walk today. #bloomscrolling #SanFrancisco

Happy birthday to the author of “Wuthering Heights,” and also to Emily Brontë!

Discovering Tom Lehrer's songbook in my teens was a revelation, a window into what felt like an adult world both naughty and sophisticated, a world I couldn't wait to join. Though he stepped away from that part of his career decades ago, I still felt a twinge of sadness today that he'd died. 💙📚

Coconut-lime cake for today's book group. #baking 💙📚🍽️

One of my little window ledge succulents has decided to go exploring. #plants #succulents

Years ago, my hobby was writing to celebrities for their autographs. Not only did Cleo Laine reply, she bothered to write a kind note apologizing for the delay, which I've come to treasure even more than the separate signature card. RIP

I had some white nectarines, so I made a cobbler. 🙂 #baking 🍽️

Today at the San Jose Flea Market. #SanJose

I just met my neighbor's new puppy and got my face thoroughly licked. #dogsky

I've heard it said that Trump is so absurd and extreme he has made satire impossible. I'm grateful for those who prove such statements wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkt-...

Visited John Muir House in Martinez, CA, today, partly because San Francisco's "summer" weather always makes me want to escape to someplace sunny and warm.

I'm friends on Facebook with a Trumpy relative. I pay attention to what she posts to try to understand her mindset. But when she posts stuff like this, which is so delusional it borders on parody, I can only laugh.

This mule deer fawn (Odocoileus hemionus) is hanging around our ranch near Lookout CA. No mother is is to be seen. The little guy/gal is nibbling the shrubs and tree leaves. We are leaving him alone and hope mama returns. #muledeerfawn #Odocoileushemionus #naturalhistory #wildlifephotography

Whatever jadedness I may feel watching my umpteenth parade, my pride is always stirred by the mighty roar of the Dykes on Bikes contingent. #Pride #LGBTQ #SanFrancisco

I'm sharing an assortment of pictures from my vintage photo collection to help wish you all a Happy Pride Weekend! 🙂❤️🏳️‍🌈 [We've been around, and we won't be erased.] #LGBTQ #Pride #vintage

Maybe the current administration can't be bothered to celebrate Juneteenth, but San Francisco can. #Juneteenth #SanFrancisco

I don't know, maybe we shouldn't have teased him so much about his stupid military parade.

I belong to a book group that has no assigned reading. We just bring in and discuss something we've read lately. But next month, for the first time, we have a suggested theme. We are invited to share a banned book. I can't wait. 💙📚 #booksky #resist

Another protest, another sign. #NoKings #SanFrancisco

Currently in the jury waiting room of a courthouse that has only 2.7 stars on Yelp.

Apricot jam bars for today's book group. #baking 💙📚🍽️

What makes a “riot” out of a protest is when cops attack. Just like when they jump you while yelling “stop resisting,” or say they “feared for their life” when they shoot an unarmed child. Cops justify their own violence by people they attack trying in any way not to be injured by police violence.

I hate the way corporations are kowtowing to Trump's anti-DEI stance by removing Pride references from their... oh... well hello Neiman Marcus! #SanFrancisco #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈