At about 8 p.m. Sunday my husband said I would probably need to go to the emergency room. The bleeding had not stopped from the gash on my… Read more “Surprisingly quick visit to John Muir’s ER after my thumb got in the way of a potato peeler”
Category: Big Ugly Houses
Big Ugly Houses, Chapter 6: Tarp House, a Metaphor for our Times
No, not TARP, as in Troubled Asset Relief Program—you know, that US government program to purchase assets and equity from financial institutions. We’re literally talking tarp, as… Read more “Big Ugly Houses, Chapter 6: Tarp House, a Metaphor for our Times”
Big Ugly Houses and my recession-provoked “populist rage”
After my most recent post about some big ugly houses in Walnut Creek and Pleasanton, a reader accused me of being jealous and spiteful, and then of… Read more “Big Ugly Houses and my recession-provoked “populist rage””
Big Ugly Houses, Chapters 4 and 5: Just $28,509 or $52,795 per month gets you one of these monstrosities
Chapter 4: A Walnut Creek tipster directed me to real estate listings for this “beauty” that sits in her neighborhood, prominently on display and on a hill… Read more “Big Ugly Houses, Chapters 4 and 5: Just $28,509 or $52,795 per month gets you one of these monstrosities”
Big, Ugly Houses: Chapter 3, WC’s Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff! Heathcliff! While my son was at basketball practice in the Northgate area I decided to take a walk along a short horse trail that winds down… Read more “Big, Ugly Houses: Chapter 3, WC’s Wuthering Heights”
Big, Ugly Houses: Chapter 2, those Alamo freeway palaces
Back by questionably popular demand, here is the next installment of Big Ugly Houses, and it deals with perhaps the most famous Big Ugly Houses of them… Read more “Big, Ugly Houses: Chapter 2, those Alamo freeway palaces”
Big, Ugly Houses: Chapter I, Walnut Creek’s own Xanadu
Okay, go ahead and call me mean and a scold for singling out the above-pictured home, which sits oh-so conspiciousy on top of a ridge above an… Read more “Big, Ugly Houses: Chapter I, Walnut Creek’s own Xanadu”
Crazy in Suburbia 