I’ve been asked to discuss my SFGate.com column about Michael Vick and what he did to his dogs on the radio show Live from the Left Coast with Angie Coiro — I guested, along with Marion Nestle, on her show about the most recent Nutro pet food...

Something really exciting happened to me today, and I wanted to tell my mom. I started dialing her number before I remembered.

Around six and a half years ago, I said goodbye to sugar, white flour, potatoes, pasta, rice another other starchy, sugary foods. Over the next four years I also said goodbye to 187 pounds. When I started menopause just under two years ago, first 4 and...

I created a page with my mom's obituary (a longer version than the one in the Chronicle this morning) and an expanded slideshow of photos of her life on my website. It has complete information about her funeral, too. There's a large version of the...

Crossposted at Pet Connection. On September 18, 2009, at 11:19 PM, my mother, Kathleen McKenzie passed away after a long battle with metastatic breast cancer. The last months of her life were far from peaceful, and she suffered a great deal. That...