Inevitably, you get to an age where some of your possessions are older than grown adults walking around who weren’t even born when you bought them.  This sad situation occurred recently in our house with my husband’s pajamas.  Yes, he loves them, but, yes, they were purchased in the late 1980’s, which not only makes them old enough to vote, but also serve in the military and drink alcohol.  They had to go.

Now, in these days of environmental awareness I think twice about simply chucking things into the garbage (landfill).  After the wonderful new pajamas were acquired with great …

A reader wrote in about bumping into Real Change vendor Cat outside the PCC in Fremont and asked us follow up with her about where she’s been recently, and why she’s left her spot in front of Bartell Drugs. Cat sent us an update providing insight into the jockeying for locations which goes on among our street community:

To answer your query as to why I moved my selling location from the Wallingford Bartell’s [sic] to the Fremont PCC  I will do my best to try to explain it. Let me start by telling you what reasons were NOT a …

This sounds like good clean neighborly fun:

‘Hood Hunts will be in “mid” Wallingford (40th to 45th St.) on Wed. July 20th at 6 PM.  Meet at the NW corner of Wallingford Playfield, with a copy of the map and clues from their site and go on a scavenger hunt.  The 20 checkpoints cover about 1/2 square mile.  Hang out at the Blue Star Cafe afterwards for food and conversation.

Patrick Nuss, the organizer of ‘Hood Hunts explains:

We’ve done 15 of these events so far since October, each in a different neighborhood. It started mostly with a group …