Views by the Bay

Hummus & pita (Yelp photo) We have become regular patrons of Village Hummus in San Mateo, across the street from Whole Foods Market...

Leading theories about how pets find their way home: magnetic fields (cats), scent (dogs), and the stars (birds) . Dogs extend their scent...

Six writers of varied backgrounds opine on " What’s the best number? " Their answers--13, 17, 42, 747, 200 billion, and infini...

Barron's runs a second splenetic cover story about Donald Trump. The first was about a 25-year-old securities-analysis dispute in wh...

Like millions of others, we've visited the Great Cities of Europe---London, Madrid, Venice, Florence, Rome, Amsterdam---and also, like m...

Executive Director Meg and new staffer Abby. Despite scheduling conflicts our four cooks came through with a tasty and balanced meal for...

(Image from Medical Daily ) One basic marker of growing up is learning how to control one's anger at other people. However, suppress...

The temperature dipped into the 30's and 40's. At the Home and Hope shelter we closed the dining room door quickly to keep out the ...

The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) has been around for about half a century. Its tenets are still in dispute, but there's no questio...

Prayer chapel: St. Ambrose, prie dieu , votive candles. I lit a candle this morning for my grandmother , who was born 111 years ago. Wh...

Barron's graphic . During the golden years you need a lot of gold [bold added]: the reality is that about 70% of people over the a...

Last week we commented on the "dilapidated" San Francisco 765-sq-ft shack that sold for $408,000 . There's now a 180-sq-ft s...

Having celebrated another birthday this week, I've been told that I should embark on a completely different second career that's bot...

Optimizing Social Security benefits for a married couple can be a complex analysis. Factors to be considered are the couple's ages, hist...

For once I did a little prep work for the off-year election and selected my candidates for the school board and city council. However, I did...