The Brilliance of Boyd

In a world of big-business home furnishings and cookie-cutter home design, Dorothy Boyd Sweet is an inspiration. A still-hardworking octogenarian at the helm of her family lighting business, she muses on how it all happened. “They were idyllic summers, so innocent, pleasant and happy,” recalls Sweet of her life in the late ’20s at the […]

Headlands Institute

When the summer fog is so thick that THE brightest thing on Rodeo Beach is the goofy yellow grin on a SpongeBob SquarePants backpack, Sam Drucker knows it’s time for the deer joke. “What,” asks Drucker, speaking to the dozen kids in his keep for the day, “do you call a deer with no eyes?” […]