173 Cragmont Drive in Walnut Creek, CA, offered at $600,000 Walnut Creek, Lakewood, and Tahoe feel all in one. Redwood construction 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on .26 acre wooded lot with Lakewood Drive access to the backyard. Near city amenities, BART, freeways and yet serenity right at home. Upon opening the front door a wall of windows, redwood decking and nature fill your senses. Wood beam ceilings, dining area and eat-in kitchen, vintage bathrooms, large master and secondary bedrooms complete the 1,651 sq. ft. home (per assessor). There is a basement (bonus room), outdoor access to the yard, gardens and sitting areas, giving multi-use options for entertainment. Schools:Indian Valley ElementaryWalnut Creek IntermediateLas Lomas High For more information, contact Terrylynn Fisher of Dudum... 12/12/2011

You don't know it yet but this is a discussion about property values, fear, and the advice I didn't take from my Lakewood-area REALTOR® all those years ago.  Today is "Walk To School Wednesday" in our neighborhood-- the day when the 'Mommies' of Indian Valley Elementary School either leave the SUVs in the driveway for a day and walk their kids, en masse, up the block to the schoolyard or they carpool the gas guzzlers to a common meeting point at the neighborhood pool and walk the remaining 500 yards.  It's the one day throughout the school year when the near solo ride to school with junior and his "backpack" in the Suburban will get you at least minimal glares from your otherwise fellow global warmers who, for today anyway, have foregone the bumper-to-bumper grind up my street to the dr... 10/03/2007

I turned 50 in mid-July and just received an invitation to join the AARP, a testament to the data gathering skills of list management firms I'd be proud to have supporting and timing our direct mail offerings here.  The annual check up regimen at 50 is, for the as yet uninitiated, a true delight and worthy of a blog all to itself (which I will NOT write-- some memories, I contend, should simply be repressed as deeply as possible).  Somewhere between the stress test echocardiogram and the colonoscopy there was time for the prostate, the FOBT, the lipids, sugars, and cholesterols and the annual lecture about better diet and more exercise followed by the subtle threat of pills, pills, and more pills if I didn't manage things effectively enough myself 'the natural way'....Which brings me to... 08/15/2007