Due to unforseen staffing shortages, this annual festival, scheduled for Sunday, has been cancelled. The festival, presented by the city’s Open Space Division, was to celebrate the… Read more “Howe Homestead Harvest Festival, unfortunately, has been cancelled”

Well, the Diagnostic and Satistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (better known as the DSM-IV) lists it as “a specifier of a major depression.” Or as… Read more “Seasonal affective disorder: Is it real, because…”

I’m heading out of town for the weekend and will be in a place with no Internet connection. Horrors! How will I get my latest Balloon Boy… Read more “Heading out of town …”

I like allowing readers to be able to post anonymously and without having to register or go through a process where I review before I post. I… Read more “Comment concerns: Can we keep things civil?”

Sometime back, at a former workplace, some co-workers and I were joking around and using the term “white trash.” Another co-worker admonished us and told us she… Read more “"White trash" worries: Do you find this term offensive?”

A reader alerted me to a Walnut Creek mom’s search for her missing son, Justin Clark, a 1997 graduate of Northgate High, who was seen on July… Read more “Family, friends asking for help in finding missing Northgate alum”

I don’t want to sound snobby, but I’ve never read a Danielle Steel book. I do know the “prolific” romance novelist’s house, though. I lived within walking/jogging… Read more “Do any of you longtime Walnut Creekans know Kristy Watts? Or Kristy Siegrist? Danielle Steel’s thieving bookkeeper might be a hometown gal”

Dan Aykroyd, one of the original stars of Saturday Night Live and who enjoyed movie hits with The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters franchises, will be in Walnut… Read more “Dan Aykroyd fan? Lover of fine vodka? Be there at Walnut Creek’s BevMo Friday when the movie comedy star signs bottles of his new vodka”

HAPPY SUNDAY! Hope you’re enjoying this hot, hot weather. Anyway, I’m looking for any tree growth experts, botanists, mycologists (would that be a proper term?) to share… Read more “What’s that Thing growing on Locust Street? Call in the National Guard? Or a biologist?”

When I first wrote my blog about plastic surgeon Kevin Degnan, losing a lengthy legal dispute with neighbors about the big, sexy parties he was throwing on… Read more “Alamo’s Dr. Playboy loves to have fun and to help people feel better about themselves, so why he is being so annoying?”