NOPA (North of the Panhadle) No one called it that in the early 90s, or if they did I never heard it while living those two or three years at Hayes and Broderick. Strangely the Napa earthquake this week brought me back to that big Victorian Hayes Street flat, which must have been built atop an old stream bed or sand dune the way that it shook and groaned with the terrifying sound of twisting wood … [Read more...] about NOPA
Archives for August 2014
NOPA
Dolores Park
I can’t remember why we decided to move together, my lesbian roommate and I. I had been talking about moving to get off the couch and out of her way—and to stop the monkey dreams. The “monkeys” turned out to be real, but they were actually raccoons scurrying by my open window inches from my head as I slept nearly every night, and nearly every morning I would relay to my roommate the weird monkey … [Read more...] about Dolores Park