Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.