For several months last year, they tore up the streets in my neighborhood, installing a new sewer. I watched this closely, for I had taken — have still — a deep interest in repairs. Repairs, …
March 12, 1998
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Stories by Steven Shepherd
Maple Street sewer repair, part one
The San Diego life of a castrated man
I first heard about Tom Blarney from a woman with whom I had worked. She had a friend, she said, who had lost both testicles to cancer. He now took supplemental testosterone shots, and he …
April 3, 1997
What success brought Fidel's in Eden Gardens
“It’s always going to be his [Fidel’s] way. . . . You buck heads with him and he’ll tell you, ‘I don't need you.’ ” This happens fairly often and Fidel fires his sons with a certain regularity.
October 1, 1981
San Diego cystic fibrosis sufferers learn to live life by the moment
"When I was nine my grandmother heard from a friend about this clinic down in Mississippi on the Gulf Coast. So my mother and I flew down there in the winter because I was constantly …
June 11, 1981