Something That Disappeared
The seven winners of our winter essay contest ponder how keys, nasturtiums, youth, mothers, bikes, brothers, and redwoods go missing.
Read MorePosted by Caroline M. Grant | Dec 1, 2014 | Feature |
The seven winners of our winter essay contest ponder how keys, nasturtiums, youth, mothers, bikes, brothers, and redwoods go missing.
Read MorePosted by Caroline M. Grant | Dec 1, 2014 | Feature |
The coffee was just the latest. First she stopped driving, then she stopped stocking the fridge...
Read MorePosted by Caroline M. Grant | Feb 1, 2014 | Books |
Writer Phyllis Grant of Berkeley shares life lessons from the kitchen and a recipe in her essay, “Recipe,” one of 28 pieces collected in a recently published anthology, The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family and How We Learn to Eat. Two San Francisco authors and editors, Caroline M. Grant and Lisa Catherine Harper, put together the collection, which includes submissions from several Bay Area writers.
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Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.
by Caroline M. Grant | Feature |
by The Monthly Staff | Sep 22, 2021 | Faces of the East Bay, Family Care
The pandemic created the urgency for many East Bay families to set up an estate plan. Richmond Estate Planning Attorney, Sara Diamond answers questions about wills, trusts, powers of attorney and advance health care directives.
by Pam Valois | Jul 29, 2021 | Architecture, Faces of the East Bay, History
Jacomena van Huizen Maybeck’s life began in 1901 on a Javanese sugar plantation and ended ninety-five years later in her house in the Berkeley hills. I met her in 1977, as my boyfriend and I followed the rumors of a unique cottage for rent. From the time of our first...
by Nana Twumasi | Jun 1, 2019 | Faces of the East Bay, Retail
Ray Darten means for its color clothing to be worn.
by Lisa Fernandez | Apr 1, 2019 | Faces of the East Bay, Parenting
A Cal psychologist has a simple prescription for race relations.