Views by the Bay

Departing from its financial commentary, Barron's ventures into the geopolitical realm with an encouraging, surprising prediction: ...

We attended our first game of the season on April 22nd with no enthusiasm. The Giants had suffered their fifth straight loss Thursday nigh...

The Chronicle releases this year's list of top 100 Bay Area restaurants . Your humble blogger's pocketbook, distance--both physical...

I read an email today, oh boy, about a man and woman who made the grade. Yale's two new residential colleges are named for Anna Pauline ...

Adding to the litany of woes for climate-change alarmists: (bold added]  the Nature study showed that 80% of Americans live in places tha...

Running an errand in the South Bay, we stopped for lunch in tony Los Gatos . As in other Bay Area towns, Los Gatos real estate prices are ...

No surprise : [bold added] by a whole series of yardsticks, women are generally more devout than men ....Some 60% of American women consid...

(Image from Trillium ) Your humble blogger has neither the skill nor the financial and technical resources to be a stock trader; hence, ...

( today.com image) Most of us have had the experience of sleeping fitfully the first night in a strange bed but more easily in the nigh...

Diane explains a point while I eat the macaroons. One benefit of volunteering at Home and Hope is the opportunity to engage in conver...

"Let me draw you a picture" is a favored learning technique, and it may also be the most effective way of committing something to ...

About half became leftovers After picking up the roast ham in Foster City and the carrot salad in Belmont, I headed over to the church...

(Reuter's photo) The Economist decries the cult of Xi Jinping. Excerpts: [bold added] Mr Xi has acquired more power than any Chin...

Psychologist Anders Ericsson has studied expertise: At the heart of Mr Ericsson’s thesis is that there is no such thing as natural ability....

Basis calculations can be a real bear. That's the dumb reason why I hang on to some assets way past their should-sell date---I don...