Duke Cunningham Can't Have Gun
Don Bauder 9:47 p.m., May 25
Right Smack Dab in the Middle
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Look! LA!
So I took the little missus up to LA for the day. Left the sunshine and the safety of San Diego and ventured into that gloom and doom to the north. She’d never seen the ...
Tough Times (or) The Rise and Fall of a San Diego Enterprise
So I'm standing there watching this transaction take place. A group of smokers across the street from the Fashion Valley Transit Station are puffing away like sailors on a break, and a guy approaches them. ...
A Grant Writer's Story
I live and work in San Diego, but sometimes I have to put myself in a fictitious world to do my job. I take on the persona of a character in the book I'm reading ...
Heat Wave, Weather or Not
Here we go! Summer's first heat wave, and San Diego changes clothes like one big happy family arriving at the beach. From Otay Mesa to Escondido, Alpine to La Jolla, long sleeves and blue jeans ...
Where will all the flowers go?
A strange, frightening uproar, like screeching and screaming, came through my window last week, and at first I thought it was the onset of Armageddon. The end of the world, at 8:30 in the morning, ...
Coulda. Shoulda. Woulda.
I had a dream last night. It was a revision of history. The Chargers had beat Cincinnati (28 – 14) and Denver (32 – 8) and were in the playoffs. They went on to trounce ...
TRYING TO MAKE A DOVETAIL JOINT
Fixing a hole in the ocean, trying to make a dovetail joint, lookin’ through a glass onion" - John Lennon from "Glass Onion" TRYING TO MAKE A DOVETAIL JOINT My vote on the marijuana law ...
Hell-For-Sure Pass
HELL-FOR-SURE PASS People who leave San Diego to backpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains should know what could happen. At home the most dangerous thing we do is shave, or cross the street, or forget ...
MY FAREWELL SPEECH
Work at the Census Bureau all but came to a dead halt on the last Friday of July, and most of us clerks were, in official parlance, “terminated for lack of work.” The counting was ...
Stoking the Campfire of Love
Ours was an on-again, off-again affair that had been discussed for months. It finally took place on Christmas, the only time my sons and I—all three of us—were off on the same two days. We ...
CREDIT CARD BOB
I got another call from Bob this morning. Bob wanted money, money I owe and money I will repay. But not today, Bob. I wish I could, but I can’t. Previous phone calls taught me ...
Getting to the Post Office
Being the gung-ho type—early-rising and full-steam ahead—I sprang out of bed one morning last week knowing exactly what I had to do. There was a friend to help, one last present to buy, some Christmas ...
Stage III, so back off!
Right now I’m in the third stage of quitting, the one where I’m grouchy. Did I type grouchy? Stupid me. How about irritable and mean? I might commit murder for a cigarette. Best if I ...
A Better Way?
When my friend Mariko told me that she had never been to the desert, I suggested a camping trip. (Mariko is not her real name; she asked me to make up something until she is ...
The Scenes of the Crimes
Several immortal memories remain from my long residency in University City. They are crimes, and they stand out in my mind like landmarks, among them a double murder, a car bomb, an arson, and a ...
MISSION VALLEY FOR DUMMIES
INTRODUCTION Let’s say you end up in Mission Valley. Job relocation, love interest, finances—or maybe you just like what you see—and 92108 becomes your hood. Now you need to find a place to live. Then ...
Round Trip
I wake up in my Mission Valley apartment and something seems wrong. The marine layer is inches above my head. The coffee is bitter and the newpaper is stupid. The refrigerator goes on-off, on-off. And ...
NEIGHBORLY NOISES
Two weeks after I’d moved in, one of my new neighbors, Gris Glums, asked how I liked living here. “Noise bother you yet?” I said it hadn’t, probably because I was pounding nails for pictures, ...
CAR CHASE TO CHRISTMAS CIRCLE
I will tell you what happened at Anza Borrego Desert State Park last month, but please don’t repeat it. I, a 20-something woman, caused a little mischief with some car crazies who invaded my favorite ...
A FANTASTIC HISTORY OF MISSION VALLEY
A FANTASTIC HISTORY OF MISSION VALLEY, From 99,000,000 B.C. to AUGUST 24,1965 A.D. With guest appearances by James A. Michener and The Beatles There is no record of the following visit to Mission Valley by ...
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