It's a bold move to address the harmful stereotypes that pervade culture and society. It's even bolder to openly protest them and then offer solutions to lessen their presence and power. That's just ...

In the past few weeks, life felt pretty normal. A stroll on Stinson, Sunday hikes with friends, a few dinners at local restaurants. Things I’ve done throughout the decades I’ve lived here. You could ...

I didn’t watch it until last week, the video of the brutal and bloody arrest of 37-year-old Julio Jimenez Lopez last July in the Canal neighborhood. I watched it right after San Rafael city officials ...

There’s a house in the neighborhood that’s for sale, a three-bedroom, three-bath house that, by today’s standards, isn’t all that big — under 2,000-square feet. It’s listed at $1.8 million but ...

Cleaning out my closets recently, I came upon a junior high English project, an autobiography of sorts. At 14, I wrote how concerned I was about overpopulation, pollution and the Vietnam War, how ...

One thing I never wanted to do when my kids were teens was go out of town. I knew what to expect — parties. And so I never did. Then one year all sorts of health stuff started happening to my parents ...

Two people I greatly admire, George Takei and Stephen Colbert, came under fire this past week. Takei — for this Trekkie, forever Mr. Sulu, helmsman of starship USS Enterprise on the original “Star ...

The news and images coming out of Ukraine this past week, after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war on the country, have been heartbreaking. Although I no longer have family there, it is ...

I was on the way to the dog park a few weeks ago, my typical morning routine, when a woman saw me coming down the pathway, waited and then stopped me. I’m being sexually trafficked, she told me, and I ...

The struggle for workers’ rights and fair pay feels like an unending one, while the list of billionaires grows. Here’s Vicki Larson’s Perspective. I had a long-scheduled appointment at Kaiser just as ...