Barbara Dunne was exhausted. Yet she was relaxed, too, a feeling she hadn’t experienced in months of turmoil. First her mother died in the summer of 1978, then she’d cared for her father until he …
Thursday, July 26
A Rancho Bernardo story of love, murder, and suicide
July 26, 1979
Thursday, July 19
Three prostitutes south of the border
Tijuana’s reputation as a wide-open town is fast declining, much to the satisfaction of the city fathers, who started phasing out the more blatant aspects of the commercial sex scene in the 1960s. The motivation …
July 19, 1979
Thursday, July 12
The strange Hindu sect chanting at Horton Plaza
The big, drunk Chicano in Horton Plaza who tried to rip off my Hare Krishna gown got to me so quickly I never even saw him coming. By the time I realized what was happening, …
July 12, 1979
Thursday, July 5
Rangers vs. the buggies in the Algodones Dunes
The wind picks up; here and there sand drifts across the blacktop like wisps of cloud. On either side of the highway the dunes extend to the horizon, tan, impassive giants with sparse scrub clinging …
July 5, 1979