The demand for housing in the metro Bay Area is far outpacing the supply, a phenomenon that is driving inflated real estate prices even higher. There are high-rise apartment buildings…
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” That saying, which Plato attributed to Socrates, succinctly expresses the basic value underlying every form of personal exploration—the idea that self-knowledge is an…
While I am an officiant and this is a weddings column, I am keenly aware that marriage isn’t for everyone. I try to balance my enthusiasm for rituals with the…
True intimacy with another depends on our capacity to courageously individuate and free ourselves from the limiting patterns that polarize us. Missing your freedom and independence when coupled, and perusing…
Size queens rejoice: small cars are getting bigger. Witness the Mini Countryman, with its four doors and chunky, SUV-ish posture. Countrymen seem to be parked on every third block in…
Never before has the legal case for nationwide marriage equality seemed stronger than at the recent Federal Court of Appeal’s argument in the Indiana and Wisconsin marriage cases. For nearly…
Eric has been single for five years. He’s a relationship-oriented guy. He longs to connect with someone new, but he won’t let himself do it because he believes he isn’t…
After al-Qaeda murdered her husband in 2002, Mariane Pearl sought to better understand forgiveness, or as she calls it, “The F Word.” Pearl founded The Forgiveness Project, a charity that…
Michele Karlsberg: Did you learn anything from writing your book and what was it? Owen Keehnen: Young Digby Swank is a novel about a gay Catholic kid coming of age…
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