Such a strange tentacled creature, is facebook.™® This is how facebook®™ greeted me Monday, with a picture of me someone else had posted...

Yo, California, Can we just pretend the last month never happened? Can we go on thinking the creeks had disappeared to a trickle, ...

Suppose everyone is right. Suppose President Obama is correct, that far too many guns in the United States are far too easy to get, and ...

Coat hangers, am I right? At least once in your life, you wanted to be an inventor, to improve the world and/or become rich and/or fam...

For Thanksgiving we tried something different — a picnic in San Francisco with our children. Low frills, simple, light on preparation and ...

“Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were...

Nothing focuses the mind quite so well as slinking headfirst into a winter lake, the water hovering just above 50 degrees Fahrenheit. My...

Oh, how I wish this was a comic book! Like the wonderful Watchmen , a grimly layered tale about costumed semi-superheroes who must adapt...

My facebook™© feed has already blossomed with ties, most of them knotted around the necks of semi-naked bodies — all symbols of support ...

From a project I keep trying to get off the ground. Yes, I do know the meaning of the word irony . Be a teacher, they said. More than...

On this occasion, I'm grateful for the Old Sacramento Underground Tours. They're great — full of little stories, well told, al...

Mr. Zero-sum Game, that's me. I cancel myself out. If anything, I do far more harm to my world than good. My carbon footprint ma...

Forget politics. Forget child tax credits or the lunatic photo-op of pushing 11 million across the border. Enough but-but-Benghazi ! and t...

This is more like it: Plenty of information about the designer, Chris Bilheimer , who has made his mark in a wide array of rock visuals i...

It came as quite a shock last week when one of open-water swimming's leading voices — and most thoughtful critics — announced he was...

Five hundred hashmarks, it turns out, takes a very long time to make. This is blog post No. 500. High time, then, to examine how I...