Racial jokes and use of the n-word were apparently business as usual at the Midas auto service shop on North Main Street, according to the Contra Costa… Read more “Think we’re living in a "post-racial" society? Maybe not in Walnut Creek, or at least among workers at a local auto service shop”

So says various news outlets, that the strike of BART train operators and other workers, that would have crippled Bay Area transportation for hundreds of thousands of… Read more “BART strike averted. Tenative deal reached”

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary … I happened to “borrow” a several-months-old New Yorker at my gym this morning and came… Read more “The economy and climate for publishing may be lousy these days, but maybe not as bad as in the days of poor Edgar Allan Poe”

First of all, this is an invitation to Jack or Sylvia Dudum–or, gasp, their attorneys–to write in and offer their side of the controversy over allegations that… Read more “How one reader says the Dudums are helping Walnut Creek: Fine, but what about that pesky SF taxicab issue?”

Over the past few weeks, my husband, son, and I have been consuming, well, a bit too much frozen yogurt. But, truly, we were doing it as… Read more “Walnut Creek Fro-Yo Smackdown: Classic Yogurt Castle versus the trendy new Red Mango? Which do you prefer?”

I’m not going to name names, but his name was on the list of homeroom teachers at the middle school that Soccer Son will be starting in… Read more “Boy, could my face be red: The first guy I kissed will be a teacher at my son’s school”

Maybe I shouldn’t gripe. But I’m annoyed, like some others, especially commuters who depend on BART to get to work and school, about those train operators and… Read more “Gripe time: The pay earned by BART workers who want to strike”

I was driving past City Hall yesterday around noon, on my way to pick up Soccer Son from sports camp at Heather Farm, and I saw a… Read more “Do real men wear skirts? Saw a “fashionisto’ in a kilt strolling along Walnut Creek’s Civic Drive Thursday.”

Among readers’ comments about Neiman Marcus and other controversies, I’ve seen this term pop up from time to time, usually in reference to those who want Neiman… Read more “When we refer to “vested interests” in the any debate, including the Neiman Marcus controversy, what are we really talking about?”

No, it’s not the “Hollywood” sign, just some letters that stand for something and that mean something to some group or individual who wanted to make a… Read more “What’s RMST? Saw this hovering above downtown Walnut Creek this morning.”