The blind dogs! I couldn’t have asked them to pose better if I tried. My Bonnie and foster puppy, Derry, is looking picture perfect on the half-built back deck cover that I’ve been dreaming about. The back deck cover was installed about 8 months before the fire, but this one will be bigger and better. The back deck itself is bigger and better. Life has come full circle as I find myself with two blind dogs again, among the 7 we have in the house at the moment, including fosters.
I had the honor of speaking on a panel for the 2026 Asian American Cancer & Diabetes Symposium at City of Hope. Here is the segment that I participated in. This is a shortened version of the slide deck presentation I gave at the Pride Symposium about a year ago.
I’m very proud that Shea spoke at the Vallejo Surveillance Board last night. I was unable to attend due to a conflict, but I’ve been following this through the ACLU chapter that I’ve been working with on numerous issues. The entire meeting is, of course, available on the City of Vallejo’s home page.
Katie Kogut and I presented on the program’s success and hoped to continue programs like these for the region.
I had the privilege of speaking to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Land Use and Transportation Committee with a great group of people. I wish the misperception of loss of income wasn’t the broken record we heard from retailers that they will get less money if they are “forced” to make their dense urban spaces have no poison in the air from untold number of customers. Decades of smoke-free air laws have proven this empirically to be false. Never mind the lack of consent the other customers are not entitled to with the way things are now. The full video is available for those who wish to see it, but I at least wanted to show my somewhat rushed comments to get as much in under the wire, including my last line, which I’m proud to have stolen from a fellow advocate.
The full video is here: