Views by the Bay

Along with all the other guys in the dorm I felt trepidation when the envelope came from the Selective Service. The draft lottery randomly ...

The lake at Berryessa Community Center Yesterday’s little league Challengers baseball game was held at the Berryessa Community Center in Mil...

The morning saw an example of error and recovery, with a bit of luck thrown in. Delayed longer than expected due to the necessity of finding...

The Transamerica Pyramid has the tightest security I've seen in a San Francisco commercial office building. When I visited my friend t...

April 11th was Tax Freedom Day —the day when taxpayers stop working for the government and start working for themselves—but April 14th was T...

on a busy street were brought home to one of our neighbors this morning when two cars collided and one caromed into his living room. Fortun...

A friend of mine heard her on NPR and strongly urged me to listen to Vienna Teng's second album, Warm Strangers. A glance at the cover,...

Hang Ah Alley is a quiet little walkway in Chinatown, halfway between Grant Avenue and Stockton. At the Clay Street end there’s an inscri...

Last weekend I attended my first-ever Sharks game. The San Jose Sharks are the National Hockey League’s Bay Area franchise and were trying t...

Yesterday we attended the memorial service for a gentleman we had known for over 20 years. Chuck was 82 years old and left behind his wife M...

Yes, the trade deficit is worrisome, but exports are thriving. Below is a photo, taken yesterday, of a special train operated by Iowa Northe...

Nearly two weeks have elapsed since I partnered with Dan at the San Mateo Sectional Bridge Tournament (see my post on March 17th). Although ...

When I was four years old, Uncle James took me to Woolworth’s and gave me ten cents to buy my first comic book, Superman. I was hooked, and ...

A view of San Francisco from Treasure Island The U.S. military has bequeathed to us some of the most beautiful settings in contemporar...

About once in a blue moon, when Dan can’t find anyone else, he scrapes the bottom of his Rolodex and invites me to be his partner in a d...