Views by the Bay

Reminiscent of the Harper's Index , the current issue of Time is chock-full of answers to questions that you didn't know you had ...

It was a birthday party that turned into a family reunion. Fewer and fewer of the World War II generation are still around, and cousins wh...

Only three of the buildings existed when I moved away. Growing up in Hawaii, I rarely went to touristy areas like Waikiki Beach, Ala Moa...

Last September we wondered about the house that had been enveloped by the monkey pod tree. Decades of growth were chopped away two wee...

Asking price: $599,000. Lot: 2,414 sq. ft.  Bldg: 766 sq. ft. Built: 1941, The yellow dumpster is overflowing. The house in the old nei...

(Star Advertiser photo) The Star Advertiser profiles a relative : [Richard] Fassler was diagnosed with prostate cancer in January 2013...

HNL departure line in November Various activities had gotten in the way of returning to the Islands earlier, but the happy occasion of D...

Anne Gust Brown and husband (Sacramento Bee photo) California Sunday Magazine runs a profile of Anne Gust Brown : Gust Brown has been ...

Left: Burnt-out ballast;  Right: lightweight replacement The builder of our home went crazy with fluorescent lighting. Two years ago th...

Resting after exercise, 1942 Dad has slowed down a little from the days when he was on the high school track team, but he walks every da...

Tiger Woods' decline is so remarkable that your humble observer still has trouble processing his fall from golf's pinnacle. In 2009,...

On Tuesday Donald Trump declared that he was running for President. The near-universal mockery resurrected posters from 2012. (Above le...

The new hospital rises next to the radiology building. We thought that the $618 million Mills-Peninsula Medical Center was an impressiv...

Rare sight: Giants congratulate each other after a win. In the important Bay Area sports news of yesterday ( kidding! ), the Giants brok...

Laughter yoga classes at UCSF ( SF Gate photo) Yoga is renowned for its health benefits , but its practitioners rarely look like they...