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Note: I lived in Foster City. My home was near the intersection of Foster City Boulevard and Beachpark Boulevard, across the street from Belmont Slough. Bair Island is a 3,000 acre self-contained salt marsh bordered by Highway 101, San Francisco Bay, the community of Redwood Shores and the Port of Redwood City. The parking area is a wide spot at the junction of 101 and East Bayshore Road. A few concrete barriers and a locked metal gate keep cars but not people off the islan

MYSTERY WALLS OF THE EAST BAY: Mission Peak Regional Preserve Part I History On the east side of San Francisco Bay, thousands of people travel on Highway 680 between Milpitas and Fremont. Stuck in traffic, a few might notice a dark streak high on a ridge, and assume it’s just another outcrop in a rocky hillside. It’s not. It’s one fragment in the Great Mystery of the Bay Area--the Walls on the Mountains. No one knows who built them, or why. They follow no obvious pattern an

Mysteries of A Quiet Life: A Memoir DEDICATION To my grandfather, Francis Ralph Rambo 1894-1990 Artist. Writer. Historian. Master storyteller. For over fifty years he was the principal graphic artist and Art Director for Muirson Label Company in San Jose, California. After retiring, he wrote and published eleven hand-lettered and illustrated books—history, short memoirs—as well as maps about the Santa Clara Valley. At age 96, he took The Writer’s hand and said, “I want to lea

THE OFFICE “Franz Kafka’s work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers…exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety and absurdity.” (Wikipedia). On the first day, if Franz Kafka had walked into that office, he would have known exactly what was going on. It took me five weeks. The story had a beginning, and an end. In between it

All rights reserved. No part of this manuscript in any form—blog, book or text—may be reproduced or transmitted by any means electrolyzed or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any storage and retrieval system, without permission from the author in writing. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (Kitchen Testers) Nan Abrams; Laura Kaufman; Dave & Tina Cox; Wendy Swartz and Twink Monrad CITATIONS (Page 69-72) The Arizona Times, 4 March 1927 Arizona Daily Star, 26 November 1930 The A