Traffic is a mess in and around downtown Walnut Creek Tuesday following a CHP officer-involved shooting on Interstate 680 just south of town Tuesday morning. And that… Read more “Possible County Connection cancellation and other WC traffic news for students, parents in wake of I-680 shooting”

UPDATED: It’s on their website: Walnut Creek Bakery, a multiple winner of Best Bakery in Diablo magazine’s annual Best of the East Bay contest, will be shutting… Read more “Award winning Walnut Creek Bakery closing”

So, there are people in the Contra Costa County who are vowing to stay away or even protest at the site of a new Chick-fil-A fast food… Read more “Walnut Creek’s Chick-fil-A: It coulda been an In-N-Out”

In the coming days, weeks and months, authorities and reporters will pick through the various scraps of James Holmes’ life to try to understand why the 24-year-old… Read more “Neuroscience and the Colorado shooting suspect”

SPOILER ALERT: So, I’m a big fan of Breaking Bad, and am glad it’s back for its fifth season. And the web that chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-super-manufacturer Walter Walt keeps… Read more “Mitt Romney’s Ties to a Drug Kingpin?”

A friend here in Walnut Creek went to the hospital last week with panic attacks after getting news that she had been turned down for a job.… Read more “Notes from the New Underground: Our Profound Disconnect”

OK, to be more accurate, the present for my June 1991 wedding to my husband John came from a woman named Althea King, who was a friend… Read more “My wedding present from Marion Cunningham”

Over the past week, I’ve just been living with a constant knot in my stomach and a sense that something is coming. Some big change is about… Read more “Underemployment, downward mobility and what’s coming next”

A brief encounter in the grocery store last week got me thinking about how I try to avoid admitting when I’m wrong. I tell myself I was… Read more “Not easy to admit when you’re wrong”

I recently became acquainted with a couple who live here in Walnut Creek, in a nice house along a nice street. Their kids go to a neighborhood… Read more “Is there a Moms Mafia in your nieghborood?”