Twelve Bay Area health officers are notifying the public to take safety precautions, including continued masking indoors, as the region experiences a new swell of COVID cases and hospitalizations, according to an Alameda County Public Health Department report.

You may be aware that the suicide rate is currently higher than the homicide rate in this country. I am aware that I have written about the increase in depression. Now this.

South Shore Center in Alameda will host a community blood drive with Stanford Blood Center Friday, May 6. The blood drive will take place 1 to 5 p.m. at 2310 South Shore Center.

I continue to be surprised at how many parents do not teach their children to participate in responsibilities around the house. We set a model for how our children will be as they grow, and we also educate them about roles we have in our families.

A few years ago, I was running a discussion group on aging at the Mastick Senior Center. One theme that surfaced immediately by the participants was retirement. I learned that many had retired and regretted it.

When children go to college away from home, the hope is that the child is happy and eager to move out of the family home. The hope is that the parents are supportive of the decision and also prepared for the child to move out of the family home.