Nowhere Near the Edge

Along with deer and wild turkeys, skunks make up a significant portion of the wild animals that roam through the neighborhoods in our semi-r...

Automakers report that sales were up industrywide. In 2011 in something of a surprise, we contributed to that uptick. We added to Volvo...

The truly intrepid traveler can now book passage online to anywhere on earth, or beyond. Virgin Galactic is now accepting reservations (dir...

We have discovered a strange phenomenon in our neighborhood. In the hours before dawn, around 5:30 a.m., week after week, season after seas...

Against most if not all of the odds, Moraga's Campolindo High School, Kelly's alma mater to be, won the North Coast Section footbal...

We are very efficient around here. Autumn may be a season on the calendar, but we take care of Fall in one day. Over the last 24 hours or ...

Once the calendar kicks over to November, our sporting life transitions from soccer to basketball. The two sports have been going simultane...

Despite having lived more than 30 years in California, I have never lived someplace as seismically active as I do now. In the last six mont...

Here is, perhaps, the best way to understand the Michael's soccer season. After today's game, the opposing coach stopped him in the...

Oakland has its issues, but one thing that unites the city is its Raiders. The death of Al Davis, the general managing partner and longtime...

I happened to hear the classic Harry Chapin tune "Cat's in the Cradle" the other day on the local "New Oldies" radio...

Some of the details of the president's plan to force the federal government to live within its means fund the federal government are co...

This interview with St. Mary's men's basketball coach Randy Bennett is a nice look inside the personal life of the man at the helm ...

Last week, Michael's soccer team was blitzed by, um, Germany, ending up on the wrong side of a 4-0 deficit by halftime. Michael's h...

Being the parent of an elementary school student and a high school student creates unexpected fissures in your sense of self. At the grades...

In my childhood, and in the first part of my own children's childhoods, soccer was the only youth sport of note in the household. Socce...

Three day weekends at home generally mean projects around the house. In the past, many rooms have received fresh coats of paint. Running s...

Yes! Just in time for the pennant races. This will really be nice to have in January when the season is still two months away and we...

According to some people in white lab coats, eating chocolate can reduce the risk of heart disease by as much as 33% or more. The research...

After weeks of intense anticipation, the school year started vigorously. Michael got the fourth-grade teacher he was hoping for. Several...