Tree Braids sculpted by Kirk Maxson

Dispatch from Ocean Beach.1

San Francisco’s Far West makes you wonder about everything

I wondered if they’d missed the turnoff to Santa Monica. The two young women, skin the color once known in the crayon box as Burnt Sienna, pinned down their towels with a beach bag bursting with water bottles and lotions. Their bikinis offered little protection against the windblown sand that nipped at their skin like…