Whether I’m about to get in or I’m parking, or I’m stopped at a red light — wherever it is, it never fails: someone asks me about my Smart Car. I’m beginning to think if everyone who stopped me actually bought one, parking and traffic wouldn’t be a problem and DaimlerChrysler would have no Read More
Big On My Little Smart Car
May 25th, 2010Strong Communities Start with Great Schools
May 17th, 2010Improving schools is an issue that I spend a great deal of time on. Every parent, regardless of race or class or wealth, wants the same thing from schools: a quality education. As a parent myself, I’m directly concerned. But I often hear people without school-aged children say schools don’t affect them and therefore what Read More
Circling the Block on Parking
May 10th, 2010There has been a great deal of reaction with my friends and others over my last post about parking meters. Of course transportation has always been an emotional issue in San Francisco. Motorists say we are a hostile city to drivers. Bikers, pedestrians, and transit customers say San Francisco caters to cars. Without measurable facts Read More
Parking Meter System Requires “Change”
May 3rd, 2010My husband makes jokes about it. My friends tease me about it. It’s the weight of my purse. At any time the normal weight of my purse is augmented by quarters. It takes 14 quarters to park for an hour Downtown, and that’s about 1/5 of a pound, so I’m probably carrying around a few Read More
A Love Story at Its Heart
April 28th, 2010I often get asked how I met my husband. John and I met on a board of directors, he ended up joining my venture capital firm, and we fell in love after he became a partner at the firm. Through our work we found that we shared many of the same values about how to Read More
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