San Francisco Chronicle

We were heading toward Rancho Mucho Dinero, my friend Peter and I. We were doing what people do for kicks these days. We don`t do drugs. We don`t do cholesterol....

Sure, Jim Bailey can turn himself into either Judy Garland or Barbra Streisand the way other people change shirts. Phyllis Diller, too, for that matter, though the demand for that...

When I started going out to big parties in college, you began a conversation with ''What`s your major?'' That was the way you categorized people. Oh, she`s a social-science type-probably...

It is glorious outside, a twilight saturated with gold light on the University of California at Davis campus. Frisbees fly and you can smell the smoke from the barbecue fires...

The once-proud hotel where young John Steinbeck caroused, presidents dozed in front of marble fireplaces and generations of townsfolk gussied up for the best times of their lives now stands...

George Lucas` moviemaking company-known for larger-than-life epics such as ''Star Wars'' and ''Indiana Jones''-is now making commercials for the small screen. Lucasfilm Ltd. announced it has formed a new advertising...

Take a bright, talented Baby Boomer, give him a couple of college degrees, a set of overprotective parents and a fear of success, and you`ve got a Hamlet. Hamlets are...

To be free, gifted and 43-is it really as bad as they say? The other night at a party, I met a man whom I have always thought of as...

I can`t make it in this man`s world. Life would be so much easier if I had a wife. Life would be so much easier if I were a man....

What would happen if overcommitted, professional SWM actually found attractive, intelligent, spunky woman for serious but spontaneous relationship? A hundred times a day in a hundred cities, a man and...