Entries Tagged as ‘United States’

October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday Sue!

A former colleague of mine in the US told me, what I thought was, a sad story. She is originally from Spain and lives in an affluent neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and 2 kids, who are both under 10 years of age and attend local schools. My friend was [...]

August 22, 2007

San Francisco movies & forty-three trillion possibilities

                                      

I watched two movies that are set in San Francisco last weekend, Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (1958) and the Will Smith production “Pursuit of Happyness” (2006) which is set in the 1980s. Both movies have stunning views of the city and especially of course of the famous Golden Gate Bridge.
 I lived close to San Francisco for a [...]