It takes a lot to turn heads in jaded San Francisco, but this qualifies: a pair of corgis in full nuptial regalia wandering through city streets.
“Ginger” and “Wally” may not be a well-matched couple, however. First off, he’s 3 and a half and she’s only 1 and a half — an awkward February-April romance.
And he’s her uncle. Not even Bill Wyman had such a gnarled family tree. Actually, check that: He did.
Ginger and Wally are owned by Peter Chen and Gracie Pan, who, coincidentally, were also married on Oct. 29 at City Hall. What are the odds?
Congratulations to all the happy couples.
Joe is a columnist and the managing editor of Mission Local. He was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left.
“Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere.
He resides in the Excelsior with his wife and three (!) kids, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.
The Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists named Eskenazi the 2019 Journalist of the Year.
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