Put the Fire Out
craigw by Craig Wiesner - San Mateo Daily Journal - October 31, 2023 For County Executive Officer Mike Callagy, the issue of homelessness is personal. As a police officer Callagy counted…
Can I Hug You?
San Mateo Daily Journal Column October 3, 2023 Edith was recounting the first moment she saw her room at the San Mateo County Navigation Center. “OMG! What a blessing! This…
That Sound
San Mateo Daily Journal - Tuesday September 5th, 2023 Trigger Alert: If you are a victim or survivor of abuse this may be upsetting. It would be faint at first.…
The Right to Vote
San Mateo Daily Journal - August 22, 2023 In the last days leading up to the 2008 presidential election we had knocked on hundreds of doors in Nevada and now…
Feckless Congressional Fools
San Mateo Daily Journal - August 8th, 2023 One of life’s pleasures is sitting down to breakfast at a local mom and pop (or mom & mom, pop & pop)…
Ashes to Ashes
San Mateo Daily Journal July 11, 2023 Ella asked her husband, an engineer, to help her better track the performance of particular stocks and indices so that she could invest…
Slaughterhouse Five
San Mateo Daily Journal - March 21, 2023 Eight years old, I lived in the “projects” where, when one mother poked her head out the window and yelled “get upstairs…
Estranged
San Mateo Daily Journal - December 13, 2022 Estranged. It is an odd sort of word. One definition: “having lost former closeness and affection; a state of alienation.” Sitting with…