I couldn’t sleep last night. 10 o’clock, 11, midnight, 1 a.m.  It wasn’t just that my mind was racing, but that my body was just alert, awake… Read more “A new morning without a beloved son”

Over the weekend, some others with Save the Pleasant Hill Dome and I finalized an appeal of the Pleasant Hill Planning Commission’s March 26, 2013 decision to… Read more “The Dome is the Dome: Appeal filed in effort to save local landmark”

I don’t yet have the sequin-encrusted sweatshirt that spells out “Wrestling Mom” but the high school wrestling world has taken hold of our lives over the past… Read more “A new “wrestling mom” asks: WTF is up with dumping wrestling as an Olympic sport?”

Do you hate meditating? For a long time, I did, too. OK, hate is a strong word, because I was always willing to try it. We all… Read more “Maybe I, too, can meditate … If I get moving”

More news from the Tough Times in America front. Yesterday, I became aware of a new demographic of drug dealer: seniors, the disabled or down-and-outers who sell… Read more “Elderly selling off their Norco, other prescription drugs?”

Cheeky as ever, Matt DeLima, the owner of the Vice Ultra Lounge in Walnut Creek, taped a faux press conference to announce  he was closing his notorious… Read more “Vice Ultra Lounge in Walnut Creek closes”

I failed in my New Year’s resolution. The resolution was, OK, you’ll start waking up early, so by 5:30 a.m., you’ll be writing. Not anything specific, just… Read more “The Irresolute and other New Year’s Day musings”

Here is a blog I posted last holiday season.  I was feeling particularly blue last year; not so much this season. But I believe some of the… Read more “The sorrows and joys of the holiday nostalgia blues”

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So, fewer teens are drinking and driving. That’s the good news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers found that drunk driving among teens had… Read more “What do you tell your teens about drinking and driving?”