BAY AREA BYWAYS  

Off to Lunch in the Neighborhood
A Visual Tour
​by  Charlene Anderson

It’s a dreary day. Maybe I’ll feel better if I go out to lunch.
I walk to the Mandalay at 6th and California.

I sit down. To my left, there’s amazing artwork.
​ It’s like being in an Asian art museum.

​There are young and not-so-young customers scrutinizing the menu.

And older ones drinking and chatting.

​The food was amazing.
Feeling revived, I head for the door to go home.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charlene Anderson received an MA in English Literature from Purdue University and an MA in Research Psychology from San Francisco State University and spent most of her working life at the University of California San Francisco in grant administration. As a child, she always knew she would write, told stories to her friends, and even invented a pen name for herself, Charles Andrè. So, while working on budgets and submitting grant proposals at UCSF, she continued to write and, in 2001 published a novel, Berkeley’s Best Buddhist Bookstore. When Vistas & Byways was launched in 2015, she was pleased to be asked to chair the Editorial Board. She has served in that capacity ever since.
Other works in this issue:
Fiction
Glued to the Ground  
Bay Area Stew
The Panhandle: An Embryonic Journey  


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​Vistas & Byways Review is the semiannual journal of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by members of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Francisco State University​.
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