Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

There is simply unbelievable news happening here today — some nutcase/asshole/freak took it into his head this afternoon to, put plainly, run people down. Evidently, he started out in Fremont around noon where he  [more...]

Every time I’d been up to Palo Alto, it seemed like a tiny hamlet with little to do and nothing to see. I kept looking for a mall, a theatre, anything at all to make it seem like another city. Finally, last night  [more...]

Just yesterday, I was talking with someone about earthquakes and how, after two years in the Bay Area, I hadn’t experienced more than a tiny sway. And then this morning the voice on the radio told me that there  [more...]