Nowhere Near the Edge

Thanks to a Christmas gift from Cheryl, we went to the Giants' first game in San Francisco since the World Series (which, in case you ha...

The AP Stylebook has announced that henceforth it will refer to electronic messages as "emails," not "e-mails." This c...

Saturday was one of the sports-intensive days we get every once in a while. We were on the go from 8:30 in the morning until after 4 in the...

This image, from the US Geological Society's earthquake reporter , shows how active the ground has been off the coast of Japan over the ...

We met with the student counselor yesterday at the high school Kelly will attend in the fall. Or, rather, Kelly met with her counselor, and...

To the person in front of me on the narrow two lane country road near home driving seven miles per hour below the posted speed limit: You kn...

All week, the media were abuzz with the thrilling news that the Bay Area would see snowfall by Friday night. Even San Francisco residents e...

A Silicon Valley startup (of course) has come up with an earthquake warning system . The device detects the "P" waves that humans...

I am soon to be the parent of a high school student. If I seem distracted from time to time, if I occasionally sleep poorly, this graph may...

Our annual February heatwave hit its climax this weekend. Even though Saturday dawned below freezing, by midafternoon we basked in 70° weath...

The genius of Apple's rise over the last decade has been its success in putting good technology (or even industry-changing, in the case ...

After helping out with Kelly and Michael's soccer teams for a collective 12 years or so, and after playing the sport myself for six year...

Sage wisdom I ran across on the interwebz today: “The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine.” – Abraham Lincoln

Gerry Rafferty is dead at 63 . Along with Seals and Crofts' "Summer Breeze," little else transports me back to the 1970s more...

Just because Christmas Eve is over doesn't mean there isn't some assembly required. Lots of assembly.

Let's hope the real NASA puts more effort into its spacecraft that the maker of our spaceship-like cargo carrier. We went the budget ro...

We have finally joined the crowd and added a rooftop storage unit for the car, now that the dog's crate takes up half of the luggage com...

Michael's basketball team of runts and wallbangers compiled a 2-3 record before the Christmas break. The most recent game was both typic...

'Cause I just did it. We live in suburbia, but only just. We are surrounded by beautiful open hillsides even as we live close to the den...

On my way to pick up Michael from his basketball practice earlier this week (because really, all I do with my time is leap from sporting eve...