Mushroom Goddess
I stood there all day selling exotic mushroom to tourists trolling the food stalls of the Ferry Building. Didn’t know much about mushrooms, but got the job because I knew how to talk to people. Black morels, chanterelles, lion’s manes that looked like cauliflower. I sold containers of fungi in straw containers at $10.00 a […]
William Dickey’s Desk
An oak roll-top with a locking lever
to keep out snoops,
antique with a brass plate
from George H. Fuller in San Francisco–