Living amid SF’s tech scene, they’ve never had a mobile phone
Not a flip, not a so-called Obama phone, not any cell phone; but they do have a little notebook If...
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Author: Naomi Marcus
Before COVID-19, Guoron greeted the homeless at St. John’s. Now he visits some at the Marriott.
Until the pandemic closed the doors in March, Gonzalo Guoron Tzian, 52, was a hospitality monitor...
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Susan Vela, blind and now unemployed, on living in COVID-19 times
Think about this: If you are disabled and blind, you can’t tell if people are wearing their masks....
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‘I never danced with my dad,’ Milton Giron (1961 – 2020)
Eddy wishes he had gone dancing with his father, Milton Giron. Milton, who we profiled last week,...
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In a pandemic, work can seem like home for some
Of the four jobs Milton has had since he arrived in San Francisco in 1983, his favorite by far is...
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Life in the time of COVID-19: Just when you think life couldn’t get worse, you get appendicitis
Say you are 11 years old, say your mom has tested positive for COVID-19 and is pretty sick with...
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A Mother Gets COVID, Her Son Gets Surgery
Say you are 11 years old, say your mom has tested positive for Covid and is pretty sick with the...
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Alone in a pandemic: ‘I am used to living alone, but I miss my chats, my cafecitos and talking about my memories.’
If Charlie Chaplin had been born in Zacatecoluca, La Paz, El Salvador, he might easily have looked...
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Finding moments of grace and gold in the midst of a pandemic
The worst moment for longtime Mission District resident Erica Rodriguez was not when her husband...
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One woman, one job at San Francisco General Hospital, and a community ready to help
This is what Susan did with her first paycheck: she treated herself to a steak at Tad’s on Powell...
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A community letter: I can get anyone hired — except Susan
I help people get and keep jobs; I am really good at it. I work for the Department of Psychiatry...
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