Nowhere Near the Edge

Capping a 10-month period in which he received a Most Improved Swimmer trophy from his swim team and made the all-star team for his soccer l...

A friend from high school, who was a neighbor and a formidable student, went on to become a prosecutor for Santa Clara county.  She somehow ...

Perhaps because NBC has not gotten around to telling me what human interest stories I should pay atention to yet, it somehow escaped my atte...

One of the things that brings me joy is a sunny Northern California spring morning, when the fragrant cool of the dawn gives way to the prom...

It's puzzle time here on the ol' blog.  As in the classic kids' magazine Highlights, how many differences can you spot between t...

After delays with scheduling quirks and rainouts, our Pirates have finally played half of our regular season games, plus a five game non-lea...

We took advantage of a rare open schedule to slip up to Lake Tahoe this weekend. We did some sledding near the house, and later lunched amou...

An Oregon family has built a 1/3 scale Fenway Park on their back acreage, perfect for wiffle ball games. I love this. If I had the room, I...

The designer of my favorite commuter car has died . Working for the company founded by his grandfather, who designed what became the Volkswa...

Boeing is testing its new space vehicle -- excellent! It's time to return to manned space exploration, to boldly go where we haven...

Spring break has arrived. As with most traditional vacation breaks, it means far less to me that I wish it did. Annoyingly, employers outs...

Our Pirates' first game of the year packed a lot of intrigue and action into a swift six innings. Although we did not come out on top, ...

After more than a month of practices, Michael's baseball team (the Pirates) kicks off its season schedule tomorrow. My co-coach and I a...

One of my high school classmates, now a successful biologist, is the subject of nice feature in the local newspaper, detailing the work he ...

We spend our days doing the best we can with whatever gifts, talents or insight we have been given. We strive to make our little personal w...

Freddie Solomon, who died this week of cancer at the too-young age of 59, was an essential yet understated pillar of the first great San Fr...

Jeremy Lin, late of Palo Alto High and Harvard, has been a minor local sensation for several years. Lin led his high school basketball team...

Today's Mindblowing Fact of the, um, Day: Two grandsons of President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, are still alive. In just two gen...

One of the timeless beach-trip pleasures for small children is to cover dear old dad in sand using colorful plastic pails and shovels. It i...

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...