Healthy and Simple

I recently had a friend who is a seasoned professional who has decided to change her career.  She has been in the same profession, working    for the same company for over 24 years and she’s frankly, had enough.  Luckily, she has saved some money over the years which gives her the opportunity of time.  Time [...]

Disasters often bring out the best in people. The recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile led to an outpouring of support – both financial and emotional – from people all over the world for the victims of the quakes. Millions of ordinary individuals, many of whom are going through tough times themselves, donated money to [...]

In America there is a tendency to think this is the best country in the world. It’s understandable considering all the great advantages we have here from all the rights granted us in the Constitution (life, liberty, pursuit of happiness etc in case you forgot) to the warmth of the people. But it’s always interesting [...]

The budget deficit is soaring, we are trillions in debt and the economy is in a shambles, so how are we going to dig ourselves out of this hole? One idea being bandied around is introducing something called VAT. It stands for Value Added Tax but having grown up with it in England I can [...]

I love technology. For instance, the little widget that they put in a can of Guinness to make it all creamy and foamy is a miracle of modern engineering that has completely transformed some people’s drinking experience!
Now they’ve come up with a cell phone application that helps you keep track of all the cans of Guinness [...]

I was listening to NPR’s. Terry Gross interview William Hurt, the actor, on “Fresh Air” and he said something very truthful.  You know the feeling, when someone is talking and suddenly a what they say, just rings of truth and deeper meaning to you?  If that never happens to you maybe you just haven’t been [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]