On the shortest day of the year with rain pouring down outside, I found myself lost in the world of Charles Dickens. During the holidays, I often spend time w...

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake. If you were in the San Francisco Bay area, you remember that day. I know I do. I was at Game 3 o...

That’s what I learned from a talk by Robin C. Stuart, a veteran cybercrimes investigator, who laid it on the line last weekend in a talk sponsored by Sisters...

For the past few weeks, I have been visiting a friend of mine who is now in an assisted living facility because of her Alzheimer’s. She has been genuinely di...

Did you have a favorite comic book growing up? I did. It was Little Lulu and then Wonder Woman. But times have changed, and my newest favorite comic is Rodeo...

Not long ago, this knock off of the Kardashian Decade cover that appeared in Hollywood Reporter, August 2017 found its way to my online feed. It had nothing...

Alar morghulis means “all men must die” in the fictional language High Valyrian. The common response is valar dohaeris, which means “all men must serve.” If ...

If you follow Twitter, you know that Wednesday is #WisdomWednesday. I like to scan through the posts. Today, some were so saccharine, I felt like throwing up...

New Yorker Dru Ann Love loves a good mystery. But more that, she loves introducing new mystery authors to the many readers of her blog, Dru’s Book Musings. ...

I get home from work after 8 pm. It’s dark and it has been cold even here in Northern California. But I still have to take my dog, McCovey, out for a walk be...

White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht, (Published January 30, 2018 by G.P. Putnam's Sons) is a devasting look at ‘comfort women' or sexual slaves that the ...

When I was in high school (back in the days of the dinosaur), my favorite subject was English. I enjoyed reading everything from A Tale of Two Cities to Shak...

It had been raining and windy for a few days but there was finally a break in the weather. I pulled McCovey’s harness over his head, grabbed his leash and dr...

(Disclaimer – The pie is made from two recipes I found.) More than a month ago when I was planning for Thanksgiving, I asked grandson #1 who is a sophomore a...

I came across this tweet today: I know how HM Braverman feels. I have started working on the second draft of my third mystery in the Trisha Carson series. Yo...

That was said to me when I was a sophomore at Indiana University, Bloomington, In. It was 1962. To be fair, the girl who said it was only being truthful. She...

When the baseball season is over and I’ve worked my last SF Giants game until next March, I morph into an English tutor for first generation high school stud...

A few days ago, a post on one of my social media feeds reminded me that October 17 marked the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, a 6.9 quake that sto...

It started on August 4. My grandson, a college sophomore, and his girlfriend were playing video games in the living room. I was working on the first draft of...

Marin County Open Space has joined other agencies in Marin and hired some special workers to clear out the underbrush and reduce fire danger in our open spac...