The Good Mother
Mothering is a tough job, and in this essay by a Berkeley memoirist, pregnancy and birth change the life of a teenage mother—for the better.
Read MorePosted by Christine Schoefer | May 1, 2014 | First Person |
Mothering is a tough job, and in this essay by a Berkeley memoirist, pregnancy and birth change the life of a teenage mother—for the better.
Read MorePosted by Christine Schoefer | Dec 1, 2010 | First Person |
A longtime Berkeley resident explains why she loves browsing and buying in our area’s friendly, one-of-a-kind boutiques, independent stores, and family-owned businesses.
Read MorePosted by Christine Schoefer | Aug 1, 2010 | Shopping |
Meet a handful of local alchemists who, right this very minute, are concocting attractively packaged, toxin-free beauty products to clear your skin, put roses in your cheeks, and make you smell irresistible.
Read MorePosted by Christine Schoefer | Mar 1, 2010 | Up Front |
Twenty years ago, college-bound high school seniors graduated in June and headed straight to campus in September. But these days, more and more young students are taking a year off in between high school and college—a “gap year”—to travel, work, or re-energize before plunging full-bore into academia.
Read MorePosted by Christine Schoefer | Dec 1, 2008 | Feature |
A foreign guest thrills a young German girl in the 1960s and adds excitement to her already thrilling Christmas Eve in Berlin.
Read Moreby Christine Schoefer | Feature |
Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.
by Lisa Fernandez | Nov 1, 2017 | Faces of the East Bay, Up Front
Experts say that when caring for an elderly parent who lives far away, the most important thing is to join a support group with people experiencing the same challenges.
by Susan E. Davis | Mar 1, 2014 | Faces of the East Bay, Up Front
Rockridge residents John Bliss and Kim Thompson may live far removed the gritty flats of East and West Oakland. But this philanthropic couple see themselves as one with the citizens of Oakland, particularly those who are struggling financially, and they’re leading a campaign to get their “financially blessed” peers to invest in the community like they have by funding city programs to teach kids how to swim.
by Meredith Maran | Nov 1, 2010 | Faces of the East Bay, First Person
Oakland author Meredith Maran accused her father of the ultimate betrayal. Then she un-accused him. In this first-person essay, adapted from her new book, My Lie, she reveals how it all went down.