Bay Area

Unless you’re afflicted with claustrophobia, you and your pals or family will have a wild time figuring out the clues, the puzzles, the secret locks, hidden doorways, etc. that will help you get out of the brain teasing, frequently quite elaborately themed escape rooms that are proliferating in the Bay Area. Most require 6-12 players […]

This holiday you too (or your grandkids) can perform on stage in public in the Nutcracker. It’s the 31st annual Dance-Along Nutcracker where participation is encouraged – with or without tutus. Playing twice this Saturday and Sunday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Absolutely zero experience required. Sponsored by the SF Lesbian Gay Freedom Band.Tickets […]

Bay seniors possessed with an endless fascination for tracking our erratic local weather are encouraged to check out the House of Days any day on Pier 17. Constructed in 2009 as an Exploratorium exhibit it takes a shot of the Bay sky once every 24 hours. You can see the evolving images through a small […]

Bay seniors noticing the glowing spring weather and the lack of El Nino mud in the countryside, might want to prepare themselves for spring hikes by accessing Weekend Sherpa. It’s a site that covers both Southern and Northern California outdoor adventures such as a mile of waterfalls in Marin, 4 miles of stairways in the […]

Bay seniors embarrassed to keep asking their friends, neighbors, kids (and grandkids) to help solve their computer and smartphone issues are desperate for competent technical support. Looking for solutions on Google or on-line forums often assumes you are way more technically competent than you are and proves even more frustrating. But there’s a new Bay […]

Bay seniors have no excuse to put off riding the range. There are trails and horses-by-the-hour to ride studding the greater Bay Area. Closest to home is the 100-year-old Mar Vista Stables where you can trot along the coast near Fort Funston down to Ocean Beach itself on guided rides, to splash your hooves in […]

The water faucet sounds like Niagara Falls. Dishes being stacked slam like a 6-car traffic accident. My own voice comes out like I’m speaking on a microphone in an echo chamber. Yes, I have just started wearing my first hearing aids and have not yet gotten used to the jingly jangly, silvery, metallic audio clatter like […]

Bay seniors should know who they are by this point in life, comfortable enough in their own skin to play around with other possible identities, right? Why not pretend to be someone else? With no thought of actually going onstage or screen, go sign up for an acting class. You can find them all over […]