Views by the Bay

(Photo from asha.org ) It's been my experience that about half of my acquaintances and relatives who lived past 80 acquired dementia...

Volunteers and clients dine together. Home and Hope 's clients arrived early this evening. All had cars, which is a good thing bec...

Probably won't survive a 7.0, though. The repair work had been completed in September , but the cabinets still were not installed. ...

Teresa and Dilip volunteered for the first time. It had been six months since we last served dinner to the families of Home and Hope . ...

Actor Jeff Goldblum, known for his quirky heroes, self-aware villains, and oddball funny guys, is a skilled jazz pianist. As a child he was ...

St. Augustine  (d. 430) wrote extensively on predestination For millennia philosophers and priests have tried to reconcile free will wit...

(Chronicle photo) President Trump's sculpture is on tour at the San Francisco wax museum . Constructing his waxwork posed unique cha...

One of the principal reasons for the stock market rout is the Federal Reserve's higher-interest rate policy . [bold added] Fed official...

And now for something beautiful: a flash orchestra playing Beethoven's 9th in the Omotesando Hills shopping center in Tokyo. The musici...

Last January it was obvious to your humble blogger that Bay Area real estate was headed for a fall, but I just didn't know when: As o...

Former SF-Mayor and Assembly Speaker Willie Brown has advice for Republicans . (Appreciate that his tone is not snarky or insincere, as is m...

This is too easy. Why didn't you put ginkgo in the gingko supplement ? Gingko supplements are extracted from leaves. Two dietary ...

The "cruel irony" of the Bay Area's food insecure : [bold added] While their income doesn’t keep up with the cost of living ...

President Trump's tweet on November 10th, two days after the Camp Fire destroyed most of Paradise, CA, sparked controversy: There is...

Dancing, singing, eating, and pledging Speaking of philanthropic commitments (see previous post below), tonight was the church's ann...