Duke Cunningham Can't Have Gun
Don Bauder 9:47 p.m., May 25
Ramona
Blog entries concerning the Ramona area of San Diego County.
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Entries
Vending Machines
I miss the vending machines that existed when I was a kid. My two favorites were at the San Diego Zoo. After passing the Reptile House on the walkway toward the Children’s Zoo was a ...
County Supervisors Approves Expansion of Highland Valley Ranch Rehabilitation Facility
County Supervisors rejected an appeal from a group of residents in Ramona who oppose an expansion of a nearby treatment facility for people with severe brain injuries. The Highland Valley Ranch Rehabilitation facility houses 13 ...
April Public Meeting to Focus Only on 2007 Fires
The April 5 public meeting at which San Diegans can speak about San Diego Gas & Electric's desire to make customers pay for uninsured fire costs will focus only on the costs of the 2007 ...
Bad Thoughts for Bad People
Everybody believes he is a good person and that what he does in life is done, most of the time, with honor, purpose, and noble conviction; this belief is true of almost all people, the ...
Transgender Woman Tasered by BLM Ranger
A court hearing has been set for Brooke Fantelli, a transgender woman who claims her being Tasered in the crotch by a Bureau of Land Management ranger was an act of discrimination, the Imperial Valley ...
music on Monday
I love downloading music to my my Ipod.I look forward to hearing the music on My personal player. Music has always been a part of my life. Just as it has for many I am ...
Saturday morn
It's raining and the trees are loving it. I have about 10 assorted trees on my property and they all need water. I was gonna go to garage sales this morning but the rain takes ...
Wednesday - 9th
Just wrote a bunch and I lost it all.... I'm a dumbass. Til next time!
The Jerry Schad Trail
"Who else has had more of an impact in guiding hikers to the magnificent trails this area has to offer, or the value of preserving our remaining undeveloped open space than Jerry Schad?" Asks a ...
What's Wrong with Me?
A few years ago, my mother told me something I’d never known or even suspected: she is extremely shy—like me. And so was her mother, Dottie. She told me she had never hidden this fact ...
Local Singer & Ramona Footage in Quiet Riot Documentary Film
The Quiet Riot documentary film partially shot at Ramona Mainstage on January 28, featuring San Diegan singer Mark Huff as their new frontman, will be released in early 2012. A YouTube trailer for Well Now ...
Ramona Woman Escapes Masked Men
Sara Evins is frustrated with what she sees as an attempt to downplay an attempted assault last week in the rural San Diego Country Estates, several miles east of the town of Ramona. Around 10 ...
Things
Things. They’re everywhere. They surround us, and they all belong to someone else. Someone owns almost every thing we see; it’s somebody’s thing. A car, a house, an office building, a tree, a garden, it’s ...
Hitching a Ride
One afternoon, while I was working at a hair salon in Ocean Beach, a young man came into our shop looking for his dog; he held up a large photograph of his pet. The photo ...
Jellybeans and Brine
There are a few very old memories in my head that have endured for many years. Three of them are closely related and I think of them often, although they honestly don’t seem to hold ...
Rite of Spring
One morning when we were living in Louisville, Kentucky for two years, my daughter, Daisy, and I took our Malamute, Buddy, for his daily walk. It was early November and the leaves had already changed ...
Beneath the Lime Tree
My mother introduced the Thanksgiving tradition of chasing my terrified little brother Jason around the house with a raw turkey neck when he was three years old. The cherished custom continued for five years, and ...
Mystery Fishing
Our Halloween carnival at Ramona Elementary was a typical holiday inspired school carnival with cakewalks, games, candy apple stands, a makeshift haunted house built in one of the darkened classrooms, and, of course, teachers dressed ...
Trick or Treat
I was eight years old when my mother’s side of the family got involved in making Halloween costumes for my cousins, my younger brothers, and me. It became an annual event. My grandmother, Dottie, my ...
