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Siobhan Braun

Articles by Siobhan Braun

Tierrasanta trails – guerrillas vs. vigilantes

Trails of Tierrasanta paved with good intentions On weekends, in the canyons surrounding San Diego’s community of Tierrasanta, urban guerrillas hack through chapparal with picks and other tools, transforming once-narrow coyote paths into smooth, broad ...

San Diegans tell weird roommate stories

Worst roommates "I was sleeping and I woke up to a noise. I didn’t know what it was. Greg comes flying into my room. He throws my door open. He has his hands over his ...

February 26, 2023
I try to be a Certified Nursing Assistant in El Cajon

When I turned 39, I took an inventory of my life. What I found there struck me thoroughly unremarkable. At best, it seemed my world and the life I had made in it could be ...

February 15, 2023
Jacumba – the next Palm Springs?

Entering Jacumba Hot Springs — a “census designated place” in the high desert just north of the Mexican border some 70 miles east of San Diego proper — is like stepping into a Steinbeck novel, ...

How Covid tore San Diego friends and neighbors apart

When the shutdown started, I was working at a preschool in Hillcrest. I can still picture my director walking down the stairs from her office above my classroom to tell us it was time to ...

What the Brenda Spencer shooting tells us about Uvalde

Simpson surveys surroundings It takes Mike Simpson 25 steps to reach his parked car from the emergency exit at work. Once in the car, he can maneuver his way out of the parking lot, around ...

November 23, 2022
Catholic, Jew, Mormon – Gen Z San Diegans deeper than you would imagine

According to the Pew Research Center, Gen Z — people born after 1997 and before 2012 — is the least religious generation since people began paying attention to such things. Nearly one third of Gen ...

September 14, 2022
Pummeled at Coronado's North Beach

Local? I moved here two years ago from Big Bear. What brought you to San Diego? I was a snow sports coach and skiing and snowboarding instructor for about 22 years. Because of Covid and ...

August 18, 2022
OnlyFans site pushes adult content from home

From Disney to Dare OnlyFans star Dare Taylor began posing in front of a camera when she was 18 and working as a Disney World princess. Theme park fans approached her about doing photoshoots and ...

August 17, 2022
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