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Reading through the Pandemic
An American Family: Love, honor, & poetry
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Glendale Works
A Purpler Shade of Tree
Something to Crow About: Black Birds, not Blackbirds
Is Glendale Still a Sundown Town?
The Wild Parrots of Southern California
Talking Trash — Remembering SEIU Local 347
Puffy Clouds of Purple: Jacaranda Season 2019
California’s last gas?
Rockhaven: haunted by “the ladies” ~ in the nicest of ways!
I ❤ LA!
& you get tomatoes!
As Los Angeles’ Jacaranda season ends
California Primary Election June 5 ~ my 2 cents & humble endorsements!
Workers: “It’s important to have the right tool to do the job.”
Bye-bye ‘Panda-monium’ ~ La Cañada Flintridge Tournament of Roses 2018 Float
‘Back to Basics’: Yawner of a Title but Eye-Opener Plan for LA’s Budget!
‘Celebrating 4/20’ … Budget Season Arrives in LA!
As Los Angeles’ Jacaranda season ends
Butcher Shop Endorsements — June Election 2016
Celebrating Louie! His Leaving Left a Hole the Size of His Heart
Celebrating the Vernal Equinox
Does Billy the elephant belong at the LA Zoo?
DWP ‘Reform’ Charter Amendment RRR: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!
DWP Reform 2016
Good News, LA!
Hyggelig & Gemütlichkeit
Local Faith and Labor Leaders Join Calvert Constituents at Congressman’s Corona Office to Demand No Vote on Trump Tax Scam
I Moved a Garden … and more unsolicited gardening advice
They Go Low – We Go Local!
Is DWP Change Really Possible? Here’s What They Said at the Reform Forum
It had been raining since the top of the page…
Keeping Daylight Saving Time Year-Round: Longer Light Later
Us Grammas Gotta Stick Together: Why I’m Supporting Hillary Clinton for President
LA Works … Here’s Why
March Flowers
There’s a Mayoral Election in Riverside? On June 7?
Stop! Smell this rose!
Baby Ben’s First Year
Poetry
I hate fall
Melting pots
Remembering Matthew
Remembering Matthew, With Love, Always
Why Nine?
This Mother of a Murdered Son Says: ‘Repeal the California Death Penalty’ by Voting YES on Prop 62
Mark Twain was Right!
Update: From Matt Butcher’s ‘Little Brother’
The Butcher Shop
. . . No Bones About It!
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