DONNA’S BLOG

Diving into the Emerald Sea Nuestra Señora de Atocha (or Our Lady of Atocha) was a Spanish treasure galleon that sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622. She was heavily laden with copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, and indigo from Spanish ports in what is now Colombia [...]

SAGA OF A CAPEFor many years I had a grand old time palling around with my friend Herb Caen—- we cut quite a swath all over the world, loving life together.One evening we attended an auction at the elegant Hotel Mark Hopkins. Well known San Franciscan Pat Montandon was auctioning [...]

Born in San Francisco (currently living in Marin) I was raised with my brother Ed in San Rafael. My patient and loving parents Helen and Don Ewald were in some ways typical 1950’s suburban parents but really were secret Bohemians who instilled a love of art, miniatures and dolls, flea [...]