Views by the Bay

Ill health has forced me to take a break from blogging. There are some matters to take care of, and I hope I will be back soon.

( nightcafe image) I sat in my highchair next to the dining table. In front of me was a birthday cake and a candle. Everyone sang the birth...

The Dodgers celebrate (LA Times photo) The Most Valuable Player of the 2025 World Series was a pitcher who was born and raised in Japan, b...

Your humble blogger is a front-running homer, that is, I usually follow baseball only when the hometown Giants are contending, but I have to...

NASDAQ is up 23% year-to-date, while AAPL has gained 8%. Still, it's 101 points higher than April. As an Apple investor and fan of its ...

Robert Louis Stevenson monument Portsmouth Square Park in San Francisco predates the 1848 Gold Rush, and its monument to poet and author Ro...

Around lunch time there are customers who come into Costco just for the hot dog. The hot dog and soda combination costs $1.50, the same pr...

The late, great Edsel Ford Fung (left), the "world's rudest waiter," in a gallery photo from the website . When we first post...

Mute swan ( Fish and Wildlife photo) For thousands of years (see Greek mythology) swans have been regarded as creatures of beauty. It there...

(Image from patrickcomerford ) The specific details of the Pharisee-tax collector passage from Luke aren't as well-remembered as the mo...

Demonstrators at Coast Guard Island, Alameda (Wittpenn/Chron) President Trump said on Thursday that he would not order the National Guard ...

(Sequoia Park Zoo/Chronicle) A bear broke into a Northern California zoo seeking companionship from the captive bears: The visitor, a bl...

Donald Trump and Jensen Huang in April (Chron) President Trump threatened to send National Guard troops into San Francisco, but today he c...

(Linkedin image) Stacey Brook, "creator of CollegeEssAI, an ethical AI tool for college essay writing," believes that there is a...

(Raifman/Chronicle) A white fawn has been spotted in an East Bay park. The odds of spotting a white deer might be slightly better than th...