Views by the Bay

Anyone who's had experience preparing the Thanksgiving turkey can recount a personal horror story. Birds not properly defrosted, burnt s...

Recology will replace Allied Waste as our garbage collection company in January. Today Recology distributed three new carts to each house ...

When I first heard a speaker use the phrase “deep dive” last month (as in “explore in depth the topic we are discussing”), I thought his cho...

When I first entered the world of business there were still clubs whose dining rooms discouraged explicitly commercial discussions. Notepads...

When Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats swept into office two years ago, they misread their mandate. A large majority voted for the Dem...

A New Yorker article on procrastination : It explains a lot about why my open items get rolled forward for months. A few of the useful ideas...

There are few moments in life—including happy events like weddings and births—where joy is so overwhelming that shouts and tears mingle, the...

I’m not a serious photographer who likes to fiddle with F-stops and interchangeable lenses. As I’ve written before , however, my Canon A620 ...

After the all-night celebration following the Giants' National League Series victory, veteran Aubrey Huff gave advice to rookie Buster P...

In a third inning filled with physical and mental miscues, the Giants kicked away their chance to win the National League pennant in front o...

“In our normal lives, you really can’t go up and touch someone’s genitals,” said Fernanda Bennett, the deputy director of the Nassau County ...

Temperatures dipped markedly over the weekend, so it was time to fire up the oven for comfort food. Costco had a new bake-and-serve offeri...

A not-so-short stack Yesterday, the end of the six-month extension period, was the real deadline for filing one's 2009 income taxes. ...

I like the WSJ's Peggy Noonan , but she doesn't like me, or at least my chosen profession. [G]overnment increasingly forces us to b...

And because of the inevitable challenge studies on sex face in persuading people to respond honestly, the findings should be treated with so...