I’m posting from the left coast today, at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco, CA. It’s been six years since I was last year, when the last ASA annual meeting was held here in 1998. It was at that meeting in ‘98 that my wife and I hypothesize that we “created” our daughter Sangha -- the beginning of, of . . . everything!

We haven’t had the chance to see much of the sites so far but we’ve enjoyed being in SF nonetheless. Beyond the sites, SF offers many things that can be hard to find elsewhere -- plenty of racial/ethnic/cultural diversity, very progressive political environment, and very vibrant Asian ethnic neighborhoods. We enjoy where we currently live but we’ve always secretly wished that we could afford to live here. Mat=ybe someday in the future.

In the meantime, I send you greetings from the “Most Beautiful City in the World.”