Views by the Bay

The Virgin Mary adoring the Eucharist (WSJ) The Catholic Church has been roiled by an issue that most Protestants had resolved: Shoul...

Many baby boomers need assistance, too. Lawyer/journalist/publisher Steven Brill asks the painful question: How did we get here? How ...

Three of the people whom I am closest to ["whom I am" is the correct grammatical construction because whom is the objective case ...

After I took her to Sutter Emergency in March , I urged my friend to get a colonoscopy to ascertain the source of her abdominal pain. If s...

It had been a day of unrelated tasks: physical chores, bookkeeping, and a 2½-hour drive to Placer County. My dinner companion yearned for ...

...on Family Feud . Six answers, but what's the seventh? The rules are simple: contestants guess the most likely answers that audi...

The Chronicle follows middle-class families (they would be upper class in most of the rest of America) trying to make a go of it on a block ...

My friend Kim Walters discovered in his later years that Buddhist teaching resonated powerfully, and so it was that the memorial service fo...

Hint: this one makes a loud noise. The guy on the toilet next to me was on the speakerphone talking to a girl. Yes, he ought to know bette...

This blurb was supposed to make me buy this book : A New York Times bestselling author recounts growing up in 1950s Pittsburgh in this “lu...

Local sports item: Giants closer Hunter Strickland punches door, breaks pitching hand In 2017 Strickland brawled with Bryce Harper ( Me...

Four years ago the hot stocks were in social, mobile, and cloud. [bold added] Cramer's first theme is 'embrace the holy trinity,...

The cover photo (by Richard Landers) of My Girls All right, I admit it, I really like the cover photo on Todd Fisher's My Girls: A L...

Hundreds of sheet masks to choose from--Here's one offering on Alibaba. The Wall Street Journal asks the important question: Do Kor...

Dad, 92, relaxes at Ala Moana with a decaf latte. Below is an old Father's Day post, last run five years ago. I remember when Dad ...