CONFESSION: There’s a mural painted beneath the I-580 overpass in Oakland, at or near Harrison & West Grand, I can’t remember exactly, with these long-necked giraffes that I’ve driven past hundreds and hundreds of times. It’s subtle, the design and the giraffes themselves, if you can believe it. They kind of belong there in a way that’s absurd and familiar and should never be changed.
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CONFESSION: We spent our Sunday yesterday at the first ever Eat Real Festival in Oakland’s Jack London Square, just a few blocks from where we lived a few months ago! It had me all wistful about the years I’ve spent living there, with and without my tomboy – so much happens over the course of an entire decade, and Oakland (as well as the many incredible folks who have lived or live there still) helped shape who I am today. Stay tuned for an upcoming blog post with my brand new Oaklandish t-shirt!
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CONFESSION: Y’all, this weekend was one big, dreamy, fantastical doozy! The hilarious thing is that M & I were hemming and hawing and grumbling about how we had all these plans, one after the other, back-to-back and nonstop when all we really wanted to do was stay home in our p/manties, eat prosciutto out of the box with fancy cheese and watch Grey’s Anatomy. But we sucked it up and ended up having a ton of fun.
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