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The Silver Strand

On a Thursday afternoon in the beginning of August, my new motorcycle helmet arrived via UPS. The one I had ...

Prop 8

In 2008, when Californians were getting ready to cast their ballots in favor or against prop 8, my neighborhood began ...

Coronado

I want to die in Coronado. I came to this conclusion on Monday morning after dropping my boys off at ...

The biggest fan

Gregory Page thinks I am in love with him. It all started innocently enough. In fact, I came to adore ...

Harvey

When we first moved in next-door to Harvey, I thought he was a busybody. Upon unpacking our moving truck, he ...

I am not a team player

It was Monday when I was accosted by the mom crew at my kid’s school. They were standing near the ...

Adventures in house hunting

In the morning I found him sleeping on the coach, legs dangling haphazardly off the cushions, his toes nearly touching ...

The New Year

Sometimes I feel like my life is a never ending Saturday Night Live skit that is both hilarious and painful ...

In memory of

When I woke up this morning I had an idea of how I would spend the anniversary of my father's ...

The visit

When I leave san diego to visit my sister in Charleston I am orange, the by-product of a really bad ...

The pumpkin patch

It was two years ago when we first fell in love with Oma's pumpkin patch. While a large portion of ...

Back to School

There is something slightly humiliating about attending Mesa Community College classes at the ripe age of thirty. Most of the ...

Holy heat

I know I shouldn’t complain about the weather when I grew up Chicago, a place where the humidity could melt ...

Why I Should Own a Minivan

I almost got my ass kicked in the food-4-less parking lot off Broadway in El Cajon. I wanted to buy ...

The hypochondriac

When I get back from visiting my brother in San Francisco I feel terrible. I have the shakes and cough ...

The Burbs

We moved to Tierrasanta from the heart of El Cajon. The townhome we rented in East County was three blocks ...

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