KT - SF Chronicle

Madeleine watches Pokomon, which for the life of me I don't understand. While she sees action or whatever, I see cheap aneme and plotless silliness. I ask her to explain the fascination - fat chance: "shush dad! It's a kids thing."

Katie is interviewed in by the San Francisco chronicle Monday (below). For the interview, she excuses herself from our roof-deck conversation and politely takes a reporter's call. Any typical day.

"When it comes to the opinion pages of some of the most influential American newspapers, it's far too often a man's world. One reason for the disparity is obvious: Women are still breaking through glass ceilings in business, government and academia.

But another possible reason could be found a half hour into a recent daylong opinion-writing seminar for women in San Francisco, led by author and Op-Ed Project founder Catherine Orenstein. Orenstein went around the room and asked the six assembled women, ranging in age from early 30s to mid-60s, to finish the sentence, "I'm an expert in ..."

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Andy Murray, Britain's #1 ranked tennis player, keeps the country on knife's edge in last night's 3 hour, 58 minute win against Frenchman Richard Gasquest. At one point Murray is down two sets to nil and the third a tie-breaker. Me- I split when Murray looks lost to meet a friend at the neighborhood pub. Of course I miss the action and maybe the most exciting match of the tournament. Damn.