Sheriff is this older gentleman that we’ve witnessed live a quiet, mostly solitary life at Elm & Van Ness, near the San Francisco Cooking School, for five years now. Next to the old McDonald’s – that’s been his spot this past half decade, and who really knows how long he actually has been out there, […]
Tag: The Nameless
Cory from Seattle
I spotted Cory going through one of those large commercial/residential trash bins and making a mess on the street near a signage shop on Van Ness. Yes, I absolutely thought he was fishing for stuff he could use to steal someone’s identity or som’in’, because that is a thing that totally happens here in San […]
Ryan & Brisa
These are the cold and gloomy and rainy and hard wet San Francisco nights and days when I remember and think about people like Ryan and his girlfriend, Brisa. We talked back in September, after his tallness and her shortness caught my attention when I was out with the pooch. They couldn’t have been nicer. […]
John on Polk Street
Oh the things you do when you go out to walk your dog…. The happy things you do when you’re out with your dog. There is an elderly man I met down on Polk Street near Pacific late last month, right before Thanksgiving. I’d spotted him a couple of streets earlier and noticed that his […]
Alexandra & Skyler
Alexandra from somewhere down the peninsula and her fiercely devoted dog Skyler slept out in the cold next to Elm Street last night, San Francisco. She’s been unhoused for about a year now and, by her own admission, she does need and she wants to get her shit together. She’s trying to get off the […]
King of Cups 