Views by the Bay

(Odd Andersen / AFP/ Getty Images) The unbounded joy on the face of Iraqis as they left the polling places melted the icy cynicism of th...

I don’t know how single parents do it. The person who is never wrong left town for two weeks, and the youngster has been entrusted to my car...

Eighteen months ago we presented our son with his graduation present, an iPod, when he completed high school. We did not foresee how his i...

Last weekend it was our turn to make dinner for the middle school youth group. We set out a simple spread of turkey sandwiches, macaroni ...

The City is still on holiday. Driving the 20 miles north to Golden Gate Park last Saturday was surprisingly easy, despite the late aftern...

I’m grazing through the Chronicle this morning, and the lead article in the Datebook section is about how libraries are closing in Salinas, ...

We had a quiet holiday. The inclement weather inclined us to stay close to home, and the returning collegian preferred to visit his favorite...

Except for the youngster who’s been getting up early to play computer games, the family was asleep when I left the house. San Mateo station ...

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth [John 1:14]” Some believe this with their whole heart, others dism...

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Last Thursday I went to my 30th holiday (formerly known as Christmas) party-- not all with the same company, of course. Some were elaborate ...

Yesterday was my turn to buy the pastries. Most departments employ the same system: on a designated weekday --ours is Tuesday--one member of...

The fog rolled through the Golden Gate yesterday afternoon and covered Alcatraz. The Zamboni machine prepares the rink this morning...

Every political season, in keeping with the postmodern insistence on developing a narrative to explain what just happened, political observe...

The forced-air furnace was installed when the house was built 25 years ago and its design probably wouldn’t pass contemporary safety standar...