Views by the Bay

Volunteers and clients have dinner together . We served our last scheduled dinner this year to families of Home and Hope , a group of 30...

Your humble observer believes that the various flavors of capitalism are much superior to socialist/statist alternatives. But he is not blin...

At 8:00 nearly the whole congregation can fit at the altar rail. When I don't have to usher or read the lesson at 10 o'clock, I ...

The rust could have been worse. After 50 years an elderly relative chose finally to replace the pipes by the water heater. Having been...

Automation has eliminated many low-level jobs. Over the next 50 years it will be senior management positions that will become obsolete beca...

Reassurance from Barron's that the "crisis" of inadequate retirement savings is overblown, at least for the demographic who r...

Golden Wok (left) is only a few steps from the Key Market (right) -- Google Street View One of our aunt's favorite eating places is ...

Zippy's Breakfast Bento #2 Two weeks after returning to California, I'm beginning to hanker again for Hawaiian plate lunches and...

The conventional wisdom on the benefits of planting trees [bold added]: Deforestation accounts for about 20 percent of global emissions o...

Dr. Charles White, age 102, in 2008 (Time photo) Time writer David von Drehle remembers Charlie White , who died last month at age 109....

Matthew's child was the only attendee under 30. In preparation for next month's 165th Diocesan Convention , representatives of 1...

Another useful application of data analytics: Time , via IdealSeat , shows the ballpark sections that have the highest probability of rec...

Gary Taubes ( sfgate ) Science journalist Gary Taubes , author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories , founded the Nutriti...

Node C: better to be at the center to pick up gossip. Node D: better to be at the periphery if there's a virus going around ( YAM p...

AT&T Park, across from McCovey Cove Last Friday we took our nephew's family, which included our one and only grandniece, to thei...