A weekly interview series of San Francisco Bay Area authors, first published at SF Weekly from October 4, 2012 to January 28, 2016 and then for a few more years at Litseen.com.
What are the strangest things you’ve ever seen?
Leaping dolphins, diving pelicans, rows of swimming whales all at once at sunset offshore at Stinson Beach; millions of anchovies who missed the outgoing tide dying along the edge of Bolinas Lagoon; thousands of migrating monarch butterflies fluttering at the top of a grove of eucalyptus trees; Muir Woods giant redwoods; my newborn baby boy.
What’s your biggest struggle—work or otherwise?
I have a tendency to complain; to play the victim — the oppressed housewife or the repressed artist. Especially when the kids were younger, I felt like I had to sacrifice my aspirations in order to meet their needs. It’s a huge responsibility to raise a family, but I wanted children. I wanted to marry. I wanted to be an artist. One of my passwords is Udidthis! Whenever I type that I remember that I got myself here.
