Here’s a potential for a modern-day etiquette dilemma. I’m at my gym, running on the treadmill or on the elliptical, and some older gentleman comes up next… Read more “Old white guys at my gym still watching Fox News”

I actually think I understand how Republicans are feeling. After their party’s candidate lost the presidential race, they have to look at how they miscalculated their attitudes… Read more “Adjusting to life on a new planet”

Oh, the cycle of life. Things begin, they have their middle, and then they end. The eight-story white building at the corner of Newell Avenue and South… Read more “One big white building in Walnut Creek coming down; another going up”

Sometimes Louise got through the cafeteria with only a salad. That is how Joan and Marjorie remembered Louise: a girl whose hapless body was destined to be… Read more “Do you sneak eat?”

Over the past few weeks, I’ve come across two insightful paragraphs in books — in a novella  and a memoir — that sum up ways that we… Read more “What you hope you do and don’t do for — or to — your kids”

Over the past four weeks, I have probably been to more football games than I ever attended during high school and college and through my entire life.… Read more “Football Mom”

A San Ramon family law attorney has been charged in federal court in Oakland with procuring the services of disgraced Concord private investigator Christopher Butler to electronically… Read more “San Ramon attorney charged in notorious private investigator’s schemes”

UPDATE, Sept 12 — Police announced that Larissa Huntsman was found Tuesday at a home in Concord and that she had voluntarily gone missing. However, police will… Read more “UPDATE: Missing Las Lomas High student found and mother under investigation”

On Wednesday, as I was driving to an appointment, I heard on one of the news radio stations yet another report of some motorist who had been… Read more “The Day the Earth Stood Still”

Denise Vickers officially closed her Walnut Baking Company last Friday after 10 years in business. And, it appears that landlord Patrick Ellwood, who purchased the business from… Read more “Bakery to open Friday in former Walnut Creek Baking Company space”