Southfork was smaller on the inside than the outside

Yesterday, I had an interview for a contract job at Sunset Publishing, which — among other things — publishes Sunset magazine, a kind of lifestyle mag for the west, along the lines of Southern Living. Their  [more...]

There's a lot to love about my San Jose neighborhood, from the neighbors to the weather to the central location -- and one of the best is the surprising architecture.

The former dictator Idi Amin has died in a Saudi Arabian hospital. Here is a man who killed up to 400,000 people, plunged Uganda into chaos, and “disgusted the entire civilized world.” And yet, I chuckle  [more...]