“Sir, you look a little lost, can I help you with something?” Mark trudges up to the fashion-diva salesgirl. She looks amused. This disconcerts him. “Why is she looking at me like that?” He wonders as he rubs beads of …

Bittersweet Memories and a Will This is our summer of profound discontent. Ma passes. For the first time in ten years, we are together, staring at our Ma in disbelief while the cremators reel her out. Some scream out “Mama, …

It seems like Mommy has been gone for days. She went to do laundry this morning, and I know that she'll be back soon, but I want her to get home quickly so that I be with her when she …

When drugs meet alcohol, the results are crippling. It's called poly-addiction. The effects cannot even be calculated, they are so far-reaching. It's only when disaster hits that the situation is finally flushed out and exposed. By then, it's so late …

A chorus of congratulations poured forth from supporters of Claudine Jones on the Carlsbad Unified Parents Facebook website following her provisional appointment to the school board on September 16. But within days many group members received an anonymous email message, …

This is our summer of profound discontent. Ma passes. For the first time in ten years, we are together, staring at our Ma in disbelief while the cremators reel her out. Some scream out “Mama, Oh Mama, please don’t go!” …

At a special meeting this Monday night, September 16, the Carlsbad Unified School Board will choose one of eleven candidates for a provisional appointment, to serve until the November 2014 general election. The position became open following the recent resignation …

Its' immoral, cowardly, and just plain wrong for us to "resolve" today's' budget issues by passing them on to future generations. Doing so is every bit as much "taxation without representation" as was the Stamp Act that spawned the Revolutionary …

One day last year, when I was frustrated about the lack of momentum in my photography business, my friend Chelsea suggested I apply to Groupon to be a featured merchant for one of their daily deals. It was not a …

Everyone minds their own. No Questions asked, no judgement, a simple exceptance. I was walking by a street community of homeless, wayfarin people. Wonderers who were painting, sleeping, fixing a tent, even playing hackysack. They were layed out in this …

American Airlines began direct service from San Diego to Miami in June, and I took advantage of it at the beginning of August for one of my periodic visits there. The Beatles tune aside, there is no airport in Miami …

My inclination to seek out places with a haunted past has taken me around to say the least. Be it a specter infested graveyard, a forest which was used by pagan covens, a former cemetery turned city park, I’ve actually …

After being turned away by Carlsbad and Oceanside, the Oxford Preparatory Academy found a road to San Marcos through Borrego Springs. On May 29 the desert community's tiny school district of about 300 students approved the school's charter petition. This …

So now that Filner has been successfully booted from office by the cabal that has been running this city for decades the media is presenting mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher as Filner's inevitable successor. And it should not come as a …

Mommy tells me that it's only three weeks until Fall, but you'd never know it by the heat. It doesn't help that I'm wearing a fur coat and that it feels like it's a hundred degrees in here...but that's a …

Our first two “Holding the Bag” articles put the spotlight on a common yet irresponsible financial management practice – making promises to public sector employees to pay for health care after retirement, without putting money aside to cover their cost. …

With the release of my new book, PRINCESS GEEK, a month away I wanted to give you a glimpse into its pages. Without additional fuss and muss, here is the Introduction and a peek at the front and back cover …

So, the blackout for today's game has been lifted. Yes! Go Chargers! As a native, I am a little afraid to discover how much red and gold will actually be in the stands. Some of us may be die hard …

“Race” is a dying concept. Among disciplined thinkers such as scientists, it is dead. Since it was first “invented” (it is, after all, an entirely arbitrary concept, borne out of an attempt to classify humans’ and other organisms’ observable variations …

**This is "Chapter 2" in my "book" about what I believe, and why. You might wish to look at Chapter 1, my first post in this series, dated August 14, 2013. It should explain my philosophy regarding beliefs, and how …