23 years!

Rudyard Kipling was right!

“San Francisco has only one drawback — ’tis hard to leave.”

I thought I would be here for two years, maybe. And then go back to New York. And here I am, still here. The city has given me more than I have given it. The rush of a modern gold rush. Friendships. Little chance meetings that transformed who I am as a person. People have come, people have gone.

Booms. Busts. Booms. Busts. Booms.

Still here!

Charles Moore, School of Architecture, UCLA, said that “one of the basic human requirements is the need to dwell, and one of the central human acts is the act of inhabiting, of connecting ourselves, however temporarily, with a place on the planet which belongs to us and to which we belong.”

23 years later, it looks like I have found that place. I don’t yearn to leave.

23 years ago my biggest regret was missing opening day at Yankee Stadium. Today, the Yankees are opening their season at the Giants’ stadium. Everything comes full circle.

March 25, 2026.

San Francisco as my “dream state.”