I’m cooling my heels at the Ritz Carleton in Washington DC waiting for the conclusion of the winter meeting of the Democratic Attorneys General. Following the meeting there will be a press conference featuring selected AGs, teachers, and survivors of gun violence. You can guess where I fit in. Maura Healey, the Massachusetts AG, is […] More >>
Archives for February 2018
My Other Job
I spend 10-20 hours a week volunteering for Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety. I work with fellow survivors in Massachusetts, organizing for various survivor causes, and helping with public appearances in which survivors’ stories demonstrate, first hand, the terrible costs of gun violence. Last Thursday at 5 pm I got an email from an […] More >>
My View
Looking down from my aerie at the inferno of Lost Angels, hard upon the Sea of Broken Dreams, the mountain stronghold of Boss Town looming behind. The hills above Pasadena, from which vantage the inferno of Lost Angels might be glimpsed on a morning’s hike Maybe it’s just a matter of putting things in perspective. […] More >>
Life in the Cove
South San Francisco is a weird place. Biotech, big pharma, “life sciences,” and A-I have dumped countless millions of dollars into the area, like sewage overflowing, pushing out virtually every sign of what I would regard as normal life. Here, instead of phragmites or algae covering the hills, we get acres of eruptions of mirror […] More >>