Healthy and Simple

There are certain absolute rules in life. There is the Newtonian principle that a body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion remains in constant motion unless an external force is applied. There is the lesser known but still equally true law that states that the less talent a celebrity has the [...]

Living in San Francisco, no matter how rich your neighborhood or how well off you are,  you are never far away from regular contact with those less fortunate than you. Just walking down the street on any given day you are likely to come across a homeless person. Sometimes they are sitting on the sidewalk [...]

A close friend of mine was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It wasn’t a huge surprise. She hadn’t been taking care of herself; she ate a diet heavy in fats and sweets, and got very little exercise. She also has a family history of diabetes so with that kind of background and that kind [...]

Now that our amazing grand daughter Emma Danger is in our lives we are discovering new routines and making changes to re-visit old routines too!  She may be only 1 year but she is an opinionated, self-regulated, young lady who absolutely knows what she wants….and it’s “That”!

She loves the word “That” and she has found [...]

When I was a journalist we always worked with a basic rule in mind; if something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Now, it wasn’t because we were all hard-headed cynical bastards who didn’t believe anything,  it’s because experience had taught us to suspect that stories or people who seemed just a [...]

I worked in TV news for more than 20 years and met some incredible, wonderfully creative, ethical, honest, funny, super smart people. They tried to do the best they could every day. Many of them are still trying, against what seems like increasing odds, to do serious, worthwhile journalism in the face of pressure to [...]

This past weekend Kevin and I took a hike.  Our original thought was to hike the famous trail in Mill Valley called the Dipsea.  Every summer the Dipsea trail is used for one of the most famous running races in the U.S.  It is a race from Mill Valley up the hill and over what [...]

I’ve had some really boring jobs in my life. I remember one time I was temping at the corporate offices of a supermarket chain. It was pretty menial, mindless clerical work but I sat outside the office of the man responsible for buying tissues and toilet paper for all the stores.
One day a salesman came [...]

My mum is a genius. She must have been. Years before anyone even talked about childhood obesity she had hit upon a foolproof method of helping me and my brothers and sisters avoid weight issues. She made us eat dinner together regularly, made sure we went to bed on time, and limited our television viewing.
Of [...]