MJ Lee original statement on Dale Pfau on Oct-13-2022 During The Almanac’s Portola Valley Town Council election forum on Sep-29-2022, disparaging comments about me were cited from Dale Pfau’s emails. These emails became public record because of the lawsuit brought by Lloyd Day (“Rusty”) et al against the Town and…
ABSTRACT Dec-17-2012 A Comparison of Second Unit Strategies in Municipalities with Low Density Land Use Problem: The Town of Portola Valley is located just west of Stanford University and is considering efforts to meet its affordable housing requirements. As a town of low density land use with largely one single…
First with my family, and now as empty nesters, my buddy and I take a lot of pride in our Halloween pumpkin carving. Over the past decade, I have amassed pumpkin stencils from websites, magazines, pumpkin carving kits, and Halloween books, as well as a bunch of tools. Below is…
Surgeon Atul Gawande has written a book “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” and from which he wrote an opinion piece for the The New York Times on Oct-5-2014. http://nyti.ms/1n6EHLS This essay describes one thing he learned from a patient/friend’s end of life: strive for the best…
WordPress is not easy. If you came to this page because you’ve struggled a bit with WordPress (WP), don’t feel badly. Even though I used to be a software engineer and project manager at Hewlett Packard, it took me 2 weeks to develop my first WP site: SoccerMovieMom.com. That is…
In Spring-2011, I injured my back while doing yardwork. But in retrospect, I had pre-conditioned my back to fail. For 10 months, after my 90-yo mother broke her hip, I drove from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles every week. I tried to drive down Hwy 5 as…
