Wealthy questions for voters
The California Primary, when we make our first votes for the next U.S. president, is still seven months away. But there are real events happening right now that we should remember when we walk into the voting booth in March 2020. Most of these...
Snapshot: Art in Every Cup
"For over 30 years, my daily pour has been a latté. Some years ago, I took a latté art class in Seattle. While it’s not every day that hearts and recognizable shapes like the one above get poured, it’s often enough that it is intriguing. What will my coffee look like this morning?" asks Pierre Ratte.
Country Roads: Tulbends
We’re going to the park today. Let’s go to the zoo! Spring break, we’ll take a drive to Disneyland. How about Sunday at Golden Gate Park?
Snapshot: California poppies erupt in bloom
Along hiking trails from Shell Beach to Red Hill this weekend, California’s state flower popped out of coastal grasslands with bright dollops of yellow and orange. Nicknamed “cups of gold” and “Mary’s sunshine cups”—a reference to the ever-cheerful Mary Poppins—these hearty flowers became California’s state flower in 1903.
Celebrate Earth Day
Earth Day is coming upon us. Do you know what that means? April 22 marks the day we get to focus on the environment, learn more about conservation, be out in nature, and promote a healthy, sustainable environment.
Someday we’ll laugh about this . . . right? Me, myself and I… and a few other relatives, too
I love genealogy and family stories. There’s something amazing to me about how traits and characteristics get carried down, generation after generation, and in ties we have to the past. I look like my mother, think like my father and am built like my paternal grandmother.
Someday we’ll laugh about this . . . right? How we spent our summer vacation, or Good Gravy, time flies…
The eagerly awaited visit from the Pittsburgh family has come and gone in the blink of an eye. One minute we were making plans to pick them up from SFO, and the next thing we knew, we were loading them up to return to the airport.
Arts & Entertainment
‘Angels’ lands at Raven Performing Arts
:Every Sunday matinee we do a post-show discussion with the audience, so they get a chance to make comments and ask questions of the actors. We saw there were a lot of people who were quite moved and quite touched by the play. So the opening weekend could not have gone better, as far as I’m concerned," said director Steven David Martin.
