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This country is beside itself, wringing its hands and worrying about whom it’s going to offend next. Victoria’s Secret recently ...

The crime that happened to John and Revè Walsh’s son Adam was a desecration to our collective values as well ...

I miss the vending machines that existed when I was a kid. My two favorites were at the San Diego ...

Everybody believes he is a good person and that what he does in life is done, most of the time, ...

One of my favorite cat cartoons.

A few years ago, my mother told me something I’d never known or even suspected: she is extremely shy—like me. ...

When I watch the Twilight Zone, or old horror movies from the forties and fifties, I miss the fact that ...

Things. They’re everywhere. They surround us, and they all belong to someone else. Someone owns almost every thing we see; ...

One afternoon, while I was working at a hair salon in Ocean Beach, a young man came into our shop ...

There are a few very old memories in my head that have endured for many years. Three of them are ...

One morning when we were living in Louisville, Kentucky for two years, my daughter, Daisy, and I took our Malamute, ...

My mother introduced the Thanksgiving tradition of chasing my terrified little brother Jason around the house with a raw turkey ...

Our Halloween carnival at Ramona Elementary was a typical holiday inspired school carnival with cakewalks, games, candy apple stands, a ...

I was eight years old when my mother’s side of the family got involved in making Halloween costumes for my ...

On a warm September morning, my four-year-old daughter, Daisy, and I were preparing to take Buddy, our Malamute, out for ...

We were having fun, Daisy and I, but the knowledge that Honey Badger and the most beautiful squirrel in the ...

For the remainder of that day we trudged wearily through the zoo. Daisy and I couldn’t distant ourselves from the ...

For me to be interested in a bird at the zoo it has to possess either brilliant colors or a ...

The beautiful squirrel, and the Honey Badger too, really made an impression on us. Daisy and I found the beautiful ...

From that first day we saw them, we always visited Honey Badger and the beautiful squirrel whenever we went to ...

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