About the Author
Sarah Fidelibus is a longtime educator with over ten years of experience in curriculum development and course implementation at the high school, college and professional levels. In addition to her work on and off campus, Sarah is a writer whose work has appeared at Poynter.org, the San Francisco Appeal and SF Public Press. In her free time, Sarah also writes the blog, San Francisco Treats--her tribute to all the best treats you can find in one of the best cities in the world. She can be reached via email at s.e.fidelibus [at] gmail [dot] com, and through all of the social media channels you see below.Connect
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Category Archives: My SF
Today feels like a poem (and yet there is prose)
Running in the rain on a Saturday, sans iPod. Usually music is necessary, drowning out the sounds of another chaotic weekday morning: the honking of anxious drivers, the loud clang of a truck bed swinging open, workers shouting to each … Continue reading
San Franciscans would face better odds waiting for Godot than waiting for Muni improvements.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will be cutting–or in some cases, even eliminating–service to nearly half of Muni’s presently operating lines.
To no surprise, the news left Muni riders feeling frustrated and disappointed, and the announcement was particularly aggravating to the thousands of citizens who participated last year in Muni’s “Transit Effectiveness Project” (TEP), a year-long examination of Muni service that included rider input in making San Francisco’s public transit system more efficient, effective, and comfortable for everyone who uses it. Continue reading
Posted in My SF
Tagged Gavin Newsom, Muni, Muni budget deficit, Muni changes, public transportation, San Francisco, sfmta, tep
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Jobless 2.0: LaidOffCamp is a working vacation for the unemployed
LaidOffCamp, an “unconference” for the unemployed, the underemployed, and the “I’m employed, but there’s gotta be something better out there,” was launched by Chris Hutchins, who put the event together in a matter of weeks and in doing so managed to assemble a gathering of smart, interesting, skilled people who brought a life and an energy to the day that made joblessness feel almost fun. Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Hutchins, job seekers, jobless, laid off, laidoffcamp, San Francisco, unemployed
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Dark news about a once sweet treat
The Hershey Company announced this week that it will be moving production of Scharffen Berger and Joseph Schmidt chocolates to its main plant in Robinson, Illinois. As is the case with many company closures, the news makes one’s heart go … Continue reading
Posted in Foodstuffs, My SF
Tagged artisan, Bay Area, chocolate, economy, gourmet, Hershey, Joseph Schmidt, Scharffen Berger
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If that’s an accordion in your hand, I’m not happy to see you.
Among the things I’m most grateful for is my cute little apartment in a district near Golden Gate Park, in the beautiful city of San Francisco. One of the things I’m least grateful for is the older man who at … Continue reading
Local man who plagiarizes personals ad deemed ‘total loser’ by victim’s friends
As a woman who now and again delves into the world of online dating, I have endured my fair share of Craigslist creepiness. There were the men who responded to my ad with emails containing pictures of their naked butt … Continue reading
Clicks and the single girl: the perils and peculiarities of online dating
I pull up a chair and brace myself for another half hour of checking my matches on Chemistry.com. I’ve come to think of this process as my “nightly round of rejecting” because I always seem to rate my matches as … Continue reading
