Nowhere Near the Edge

It's through the looking glass time. Barry Bonds, the former slugger who is now baseball's most prominent pariah thanks to steroids,...

After only seven months of residency, we reached a milestone today: We've had one car in the driveway since we moved in, with boxes and ...

If Art Linkletter were still around, he could develop a new franchise around the bizarre malaprops generated by speech recognition software....

... and it wasn't even my choice. It seems that the good money that was thrown after the bad money really hit it off and decided to run...

This post is unremarkable in appearance, but a big deal on our end of the keyboard. After a couple of weeks down, the iMac is functional ag...

I feel so cheated. It turns out that Four Corners, the point at which Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah come together (the only such m...

We have a lot of generalized plans about places we want to visit as a family. Hawaii is high on the list, an American heritage trip through...

I finally figured out where the boundary line of middle age is. It is the day you host your daughter's 12-year-old birthday party and yo...

A Ferrari crashed in the local hills last Saturday. The driver apparently took a turn too fast and flipped the car. Fortunately, she was ...

We've been away for spring break, our first extended getaway as a family in about two years. We kids knew we were headed to San Diego; ...

On our way to our time-share condo outside San Diego for spring break this week, we surprised the kids with a stop at Disneyland. They refu...

Although I have somehow resisted the urge to gush, the iPhone I have had for the last seven months has exceeded my expectations in just abou...

Many of the local trees have already flowered, and the daffodils appeared everywhere last month. With a full week of sunshine, our yard has...

A couple of hours after the first pitch in Michael's baseball season , Kelly embarked on a new sporting venture: volleyball. In this s...

Michael started his second season of baseball this past Saturday. They have dispensed with the tee, going with coaches-pitch from the begin...

There is a long way to go, but this recent development gives me a great deal of satisfaction:

An employee of a prominent local foundation that funds health care for children pled guilty to embezzlement this week, and will likely be s...

Thanks to work stress, I often wake up in the middle of the night unable to get back to sleep. The one routine I have developed that works ...

Nearby Cal (UC Berkeley) seems to have an unnatural hold on the imaginations of young boys of this area. Michael's youth baseball team ...