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Walking From San Francisco to Oakland

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When my friends Corissa and Joe invited me to spend Thanksgiving with them in Oakland with their baby and in-laws, I declared, “I shall walk from San Francisco to Oakland!” I asked Google the best way to get there, under the assumption that surely there was a bridge. Google said, “Welcome to Oakland, bitch! There’s…

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When Gin in Guatemala Leads To Crack in San Francisco

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So for the third time in my life, I found myself playing guitar for the police and people being arrested.   When I’m in Guatemala, I drink gin. On one such night, sipping my gin at The Snug, I met the musician Corissa Bragg, who was drinking next to me. We made tentative plans to…

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