The Compass Rose

Who drinks cocktails anymore? It must be a dying art. Only the straggling ragtag crew of septuagenarians, of which I'm an honorabl...

San Francisco Chronicle for Thursday, May 21, 2020: University of California system will no longer require SAT, ACT for admissions.   Duri...

It seems that only yesterday, people were living their lives in a familiar way, getting and spending, walking and driving and congregating...

I just discovered that an old friend of many years passed away in January. The Berkeleyside obituary is here .  I first met Goodwin in ab...

A new recipe, fresh from the stainless counter . . . .  1 3/4 parts Jack Daniels Bourbon 3/4 part sweet vermouth 1/3 part Becherovka ...

Yesterday evening I received a link from William Easton to an article in the online science site Nautilus . The article consists primarily ...

Back in April 2014, I wrote a blog piece about abstraction in art, prompted by my finding what seemed to be a stray painter's plywood c...