UPDATE: Walnut Creek police maintained a presence as school let out at Walnut Creek Intermediate Friday, as the suspicious looking man in Wednesday’s stranger incident may have… Read more “Stranger alert for Walnut Creek students”

Sometimes I’ll look at the obituaries. It’s hard not to focus on a notice for someone who was too young to die of an age-related illness. For… Read more “Grieving family challenges stigma on mental illness, suicide”

Making the rounds today of media watch blogs today is a story by a journalist about why he was fired from his job as editor of a… Read more “Is this cartoon racist and does it reflect attitudes around the East Bay burbs?”

The things you start thinking about when you stop by the drug store to buy tampons … Like, whether it’s appropriate to use the t-word in a… Read more “Aisle 19 Musings on Sex, Birth Control and the War on Women”

I keep thinking I need to eat better: more vegetables and fruits, fewer calories, less snacking and less sugar.

UPDATE Tuesday: Neiman Marcus Tuesday posted an article on its website with lots of cool images of the art that is coming to the Walnut Creek store.… Read more “The art of Neiman Marcus”

There are so many more things I get to worry about now that my son is entering adolescence. But one important question I haven’t really considered is… Read more “Something I’m contemplating: becoming a better sleep role model for my son”

Let’s have a little talk about tweetle beetles…. What do you know about tweetle beetles? Well… When tweetle beetles fight, it’s called a tweetle beetle battle … One… Read more “Lawsuit over 2010 Contra Costa prosecutor battle muddle”

While investigating a 43-year-old Walnut Creek woman in connection with using a stolen credit card Saturday, police learned she caring for an elderly Moraga resident while on… Read more “Fraud alert issue on Walnut Creek woman who was caregiving for elderly”

Maybe working as a freelancer and contractor these days, and having a daily schedule that is entirely up to me, makes me more prone ever to anxiety. … Read more “All the scary, hard things you gotta do in a day”