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Would saying yes have made any difference? After being cast as lead ingénue in a few high school...
Read MorePosted by Maureen Ellen O'Leary | Jan 1, 2017 | Feature |
Would saying yes have made any difference? After being cast as lead ingénue in a few high school...
Read MorePosted by Maureen Ellen O'Leary | Jan 1, 2017 | Feature |
Writers ponder how things might have been different if they had a second chance.
Read MorePosted by Maureen Ellen O'Leary | Dec 1, 2015 | Feature |
Seven winners of The Monthly’s winter essay contest write about sump pumps, car crashes, robots, education, yachts, new clothes, and rich relatives.
Read MorePosted by Maureen Ellen O'Leary | Dec 1, 2015 | Feature |
An exercise in how to get the dough leads to an inexpensive but priceless ending.
Read MorePosted by Maureen Ellen O'Leary | Dec 1, 2013 | Feature |
It is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Austenites...
Read Moreby Maureen Ellen O'Leary | Feature |
Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.
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.