Views by the Bay

Today the church celebrated the Feast of St. Francis (the official date was yesterday, October 4th). Coincidentally it was also the date of...

The news feed is filled with stories about the decline of London and the UK in general. If reports are to be believed, hordes of unassimilat...

Hard Rock Tejon's estimated cost is $600 million (Wald Arch/Hard Rock/SfGate) A new Hard Rock casino will open next month near Baker...

Rodin's Burghers of Calais in Memorial Court, Stanford Many years ago I was accepted to Stanford's undergraduate program but di...

In the City dogs eat better than a lot of people (Wilson/WSJ) The Bay Area is a dog-friendly place, but San Francisco appears to have cro...

WSJ: At night, the Chongqing skyline illuminates with neon lights, reminiscent of the film “Blade Runner” /td> I thought I was done with...

Football Hall-of-Famer Norm Van Brocklin (1926-1983) had retired as a player and was a coach for the Vikings and Falcolns when i began fol...

My high school classmates Pam and Ina invited us to a small reunion of fellow graduates, most of whom I have known since sixth grade. Traffi...

Pulmonary embolism (Cavallini/Science Source/WSJ) I had been feeling pretty chipper until the beginning of September. As the month proceede...

Five years ago we awoke to an orange sky: : distant wildfire smoke, cool fog, and still air combined to turn the sky orange. It was so dark ...

We've talked about how bad the stagflation was during the late '70's and early '80's, but don't take it from me. He...

When we celebrated our golden anniversary last month, the status of our finances was the furthest thing from our mind, just as they were w...

(Renault/Zuma/WSJ photo) Note: I wish to remind my smattering of readers that I never voted for President Trump (or his opponents) in any ...

2021: A litter of 7 coyote pups in Golden Gate Park (SF Gate) As we have posted before , coyotes have become ubiquitous in the Bay Area. ...

(Photo from crosswalk ) Today's Old Testament lesson includes the verse: "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician ther...