Views by the Bay

...a truck I never hope to see outside mine.

Despite 40+ years of living on the Peninsula, I had never been to this part of East Palo Alto. Largely undeveloped, the area is pockmarke...

It's all protected, now. The junkyard, only a few feet from the Bay, pre-dates the EPA . The history of land development in the ...

(Image from verywell.com ) Staying in bed doesn't help recuperation; in fact, immobility harms : [bold added] Numerous studies hav...

The fact that the ad for a barn door showed up in my inbox indicates that Home Depot still needs to do some work on its targeted marketin...

I often wonder whether President Trump tweets and/or speaks impulsively or with a grand plan in mind. His latest tweetstorm concerns the we...

Clara and Leda prepared and served dinner on Tuesday. This past week it was our turn to serve dinner to 11-15 people at Home and Hope , ...

The simple Google home page is the entryway to the most complicated software on the planet. As school children in the 60's we knew t...

We had been eating brown rice for over a decade because of its putative health benefits but switched back to white when Consumer Reports w...

Not Mr. Ohara (visualdepartures.com) A friend waxed enthusiastic about a landscaper by the name of O'Hara. An Irish gardener--why no...

Magic Island, Ala Moana Beach Park, in August With apologies to Bishop Berkeley : if Dad walks for 30 minutes, but the Apple Watch doe...

Expensive visits to the vet are part of the package. Pets improve owners' physical and mental wellbeing by lowering blood pressur...

A question that plagued me throughout my career: why did I always get tired in the afternoon? (One could have surmised that the excitement o...

The biggest impediments to longevity are smoking and obesity. Data analysis has discovered a third factor: loneliness . [bold added] Soci...

We've been following developments in Alzheimer's Disease research and treatment not only because close friends and relatives have su...