A lovely, intimate collection of objects mostly from the 19th and 20th centuries in the region where my novel, BAY LANDS, takes place

Juana Briones lived in a small house like this with her family in the San Francisco Presidio c. 1813-1819

To re-establish my blogging discipline after a hiatus devoted to writing my novel, BAY LANDS, I decided to visit a real-life being who...

Quercus lobata We are full-on into Autumn now. The summer's fuzzy lassitude jolted into clarity of purpose, the way it always has done,...

Hey! I'm in the running as a finalist in the annual ebook competition run by EPIC, Electronic Publishing Internet Coalition. Not sure...

In case you missed it, the Jan. 3 issue of The New York Times Book Review published my Letter to the Editor re Cynthia Ozick's cover...

My co-author, Marilyn Yalom, and I will be speaking at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on Thursday, January 14. I'm really...

Okay, I'm not a New Yorker, and never will be. But I do take to heart the conversational "editing" of our phenomenal Harper Collins...

Wednesday, October 14, at 10 am, you might absentmindedly turn on the radio for some background noise, flip through the presets, and...

George at Books Inc., how could you be any nicer? You gave Team Social Sex a beautiful set up, all with such good humor and...