Nowhere Near the Edge

A week ago Friday, Michael turned six. This was the year, as it was with Kelly before him, when the birthday party became a more intimate g...

It's official: the house is on the market. Not only that, it is on the cover of the local insert to the LA Times Real Estate section ...

I have a theory about human social interaction that, I fear, may only apply to me. It was true in childhood, and has remained irritating fa...

It is Barry Bonds' last home game as a member of the San Francisco Giants tonight. The weather is beautiful here in the Bay Area today;...

As I work my way through a file, typing furiously, I have been known to make a typing error or two. Sometimes they provide a felicitous gli...

The sports pages these days are atwitter with concern about the NFL's New England Patriots getting caught videotaping the opposing team...

A brief progress report: Life in Oakland is off to a good start. After a week and a day, the job is exactly what I expected it to be. I am...

Soccer season has arrived. After several weeks of practice, both kids had their first games today. Kelly is newly arrived in the Under 12 ...

I leave for San Francisco tomorrow, to start work in Oakland on Monday. One might think I would have spent the last week out of work baskin...

Yesterday, my last day at work gave form and substance to T.S. Eliot's proclamation, "This is how the world ends/Not with a bang bu...

As if public school teachers in Los Angeles don't have a hard enough job as it is, now many of them are being underpaid or not paid at ...

It's true: time has nearly run out in California. As of September 19, 2007, Californians will no longer be able to pick up the phone, ...

If you want to see a little bit of what I do for a living, feel free to check out this opinion of California First Circuit Court of Appeal ...

It is only by working diligently, scouring the internet, that I am able to bring you gems like this . Shoot the bloons!

I have worked in a few high-tech companies in my time. Whenever an employee quit, unless it was an end-of-summer thing as was always the ca...

It looks like Phil Knight has recovered from his angst over his alma mater's joining a group that promotes the rights of overseas worke...

I like the "Bourne" set of movies. The first one, "The Bourne Identity," is one of my go-to favorites, hands down. Goo...

At long last, Top Gear is returning to the US. After a short run on Discovery, BBC America has picked up the show. Not at all a bland, Co...

Thomas Wolfe said you can’t go home again, and Gertrude Stein famously said of Oakland, “there is no there there.” To the extent that Wolfe...

If you ever see this cat approaching you, run as fast as you can the other way and hope that it doesn't follow you: Oscar the cat seem...