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Nov.28.2011
As you may know from reading Sam’s recent blog post, I’ve hit a little health snag. By “little health snag,” I mean that I got an emergency right hip bipolar eudoprosthesis—or, in terms most of us understand, I had some kind of partial hip replacement.
Here’s what happened. Sam and I were headed...
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Jul.24.2011
The background: I found a ceramic chochke that I named Reggie:
last month in a dollar store on Mission Street. I challenged anyone who cared to provide evidence of something uglier, and The Ugliest Thing in the World Contest kicked off to a blazing start, inspiring two dozen visually repulsive...
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Jul.07.2011
I know you are waiting with bated breath to find out which entry wins the title of “The Ugliest Thing in the World.” Well . . . you’ll have to wait just a bit longer. The judges are all in the bathroom throwing up. No, seriously, they’re deadlocked.
At midnight on the fourth of July we...
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May.28.2011
San Francisco: I found myself in between appointments at 16th and Mission with fifteen minutes to kill and $5 burning a hole in my pocket. Literally. There was a decision to be made: a coffee at Starbucks or a cruise through the Dollar Store.
The choice was clear. Anyone who’s ever been to...
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Mar.16.2011
As the producer of the nationally-distributed radio show West Coast Live, I’m on a lot of press lists. Each morning, I open my email to find hundreds of publicist-generated pitches, sent to me and many others, touting the irresistible credentials of the latest parenting expert, pet food...
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Mar.13.2011
Back in the eighties when I was in a band called The Enchanters, gigs were a big deal. The ritual began with a long Saturday-afternoon flyer-mailing session (and I am talking snail mail here). Rumor has it that someone connected to the band, whose job involved processing incoming...
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Jan.18.2011
There’s something about the Pulpwood Queens’ Girlfriend Weekend that draws me to Jefferson, Texas every winter. It’s not the costume-party Hair Ball, though that’s a swell deal indeed. But San Francisco offers more than enough opportunities to dress up without having to figure out how to...
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Dec.06.2010
So I’m starting this story in the middle, because that’s where we are. The beginning was last June, when I received a breast cancer diagnosis the day before our first wedding anniversary. Don’t get me started on that, or the hot pink “My Cancer Journey” binder handed to me by a nurse...
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Sep.20.2010
Every marriage has its secrets. No matter what you think about other people’s relationships, what goes on behind closed doors, especially in the bedroom, is a mystery: distinguished college professors may revert privately to baby talk; perhaps those straight-laced church-goers attend...
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Sep.13.2010
Just about a year ago, my mother Betty moved from her big house in Marin County to a small apartment at Alma Via, a senior community in San Francisco. We chose Alma Via for a number of reasons: the folks there were the warmest and most welcoming; they have a top-notch staff of caring...
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Sep.06.2010
Dancing With the Star
Thanks to the efforts of our pal Leslie Levine, Sam and I spend a week each summer as guest presenters at Rancho La Puerta, a rustic spa resort in Tecate, Mexico. Rancho La Puerta is a soothing, health-enhancing refuge, offering an assortment of fitness classes,...
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Aug.07.2010
A couple of weeks ago, Sam and I went to Armonk, New York, where we attended his Byram Hills High School reunion. It was a little surprising to me that Sam wanted to go at all, since the powers that be at his school actually kicked him out, but once he made the decision to participate...
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Jul.15.2010
Last November, our house was robbed. In addition to two cars (which were found by police and returned within a few days) and a little basket filled with Sam’s beloved dollhouse furniture, we lost a lot of the music equipment we kept stored between gigs. Most of these items—a keyboard, speakers...
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Jun.24.2010
I am a person who’s had a lot of self-described million-dollar ideas. There was Party Amazons, a company that specialized in jungle décor for hospitality suites at trade shows. I was the crazed woman with the clipboard and the phone glued to her ear, screaming things like “An elephant head?...
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Apr.21.2010
Greetings from the road! This week I'm rocking the East Coast as a member of the all-author rock band, the Rock Bottom Remainders. Last night we played in Washington DC at the 9:30 Club, starting at 8:30 (really). Tonight, April 22 we play the Electric Factory in Philadelphia; Friday April 23 we...
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About Kathi
Perhaps best known in the publishing world for founding the all-author garage band, the Rock Bottom Remainders, Kathi Kamen Goldmark is the author of a novel, And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, co-author of Write That Book Already!: the Tough Love You...
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Support for Families of Children with Disabilities Friends of the San Francisco Public Library National Kidney Foundation of Northern California Litquake...