Another PetSmart grooming death; rent increase forces out kitten rescue; dog dies with sitter from DogVacay; pit bull saves woman

I received an e-mail from a Pet Page reader regarding yet another grooming death at a chain pet store, this time a PetSmart in Mountain View. As with all of these stories, the dog ... Read More

Pets

Give Me Shelter Cat Rescue needs your help

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I was thrilled to hear that the Nine Lives Foundation, which I featured on the Pet Page recently (“Nine Lives Foundation loses lease,” May 2016), will be able to stay i... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Grow up, Airbnb

You’re a big business now — time to follow the rules

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Last fall, Airbnb was embroiled in a nasty battle to beat Proposition F, which would have strengthened regulations on the short-term home rental start-up and its competitors. The company spent more than $8 million on deceptive ads to scare the daylights out of anyone using the service ("Don't let the government in your bedroom!").... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Some of the homeless people you pass have been in your shoes

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

A few months ago I came across a letter to the San Francisco Business Times. The author, an understandably frustrated San Francisco resident named Richard Kales, went on at length about the perils of working downtown with its throngs of drug addicted, mentally ill, and sometimes violent denizens.... Read More

La Deliziosa Vita

Turn leftover rice into arancini, a comforting Sicilian snack

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Arancini (stuffed rice balls) is a beloved street food in Sicily, and it was one of my favorite childhood snacks. My grandfather made them using leftover Arborio rice from risotto,... Read More

Reynolds Rap

Paradise Cost

Affordable San Francisco? Are you kidding?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

This month San Francisco residents will vote on Proposition C, which would raise the affordable housing requirements for developers from 12 to 25 percent and set aside some of that... Read More

Political Animal

How many dogs must die before we enact grooming legislation?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I am sad to say this is my third column about a dog being killed or nearly killed in the hands of untrained, unlicensed, sometimes even criminal groomers. While there have been inc... Read More

The Adventures of Skylar Grey

Chapter 32: Simple as this

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Traveled to each oceans end Saw all seven wonders, trying to make some sense Memorized the mantra Confucius said But it only let me down Tried absolution of the mind and soul It on... Read More

Reynolds Rap

You can’t be shot in the back if you’re charging forward

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

In April 2014, I received a call from someone inside the San Francisco Police Department. “You should look into the shooting of that dog at the projects,” he said. R... Read More

Mews Briefs

Nine Lives Foundation loses lease — must relocate 200 cats by end of May; Give Me Shelter cat rescue fundraiser; Wonder Dog Rescue seeks fosters/adopters for Frenchies, Bostons

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

NINE LIVES FOUNDATION The story of Smurf (the 8-week-old kitten dyed blue and used as a chew toy) made national news, but the organization that saved Smurf is now in dire straits t... Read More

Home & Garden, La Deliziosa Vita

The glory of backyard chickens and the world’s best deviled eggs

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I’ve been writing in The Marina Times and talking on the radio for years about the many reasons to buy pasture-raised eggs — not “cage free,” which means only t... Read More

Reynolds Rap

My love/hate relationship with Uber

After three years chatting up their drivers, I am not alone

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Three years ago, headed down to the studios of radio station KGO to guest host on a Saturday afternoon, I had grown weary of giving up my prime parking space in the Lower Haight an... Read More

The Adventures of Skylar Grey

Chapter 31: Back to where I’m from

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

You’re on the side of the road You don’t know which way is down Your head is spinning out of control Since you left that little town You told them all you’d be fi... Read More

Recipes

How to peel hard boiled eggs

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Click to watch video... Read More

Reynolds Rap

We built this city: Post-Super Bowl shantytowns show the city doesn’t know how

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

In less than a month, San Francisco built a city for the Super Bowl and tore it down as if it never existed — an amazing feat. Yet, on a recent drive down Division Street, my fri... Read More

Susan Dyer Reynolds