Separated From the World by Choice
Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.
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Leaving Mars
At 57, Patricia O’Connor trades a badass-motorcycle-racer past for womanhood, finding—finally—congruence in her physical and emotional selves.
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Berkeley-based bio honors SF architect Bernard Maybeck’s daughter-in-law
Jacomena van Huizen Maybeck’s life began in 1901 on a Javanese sugar plantation and ended...
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Get Fit Without Killing Yourself
A common-sense approach to eating and exercise works wonders, and Lydia De Jesus Juarez and other local residents and experts share how and why the regimen achieves results.
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Kilduff Gets to the Bottom of the Kasper’s or Caspers Question
It’s all in the family for the famous East Bay hot dog empire.
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Separated From the World by Choice
Hidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.
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Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Urges Parents to Discuss Race
A Cal psychologist has a simple prescription for race relations.
Being a Long-Distance Caregiver
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.
In the Philanthropic Swim
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.
My Father, My Lie
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.