Nothing tests a person’s character or judgment like a crisis. My parents taught me this. The day after Pearl Harbor, my father enlisted in the Marines and my mother joined the Red Cross. As idealistic teenagers, they answered a...
Read MoreWanna read something that’s not about COVID-19? I’m happy to oblige. For March, Women’s History Month — yes, it’s every year! — I have a new exhibit in the Centennial Room at the Pasadena Central Library. On display is a tiny...
Read MoreThe black experience has been written about in many great books, especially such classics as “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, “The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin, and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou. Other...
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“Bah! Humbug!” is associated with the miserly, wrinkled, and mean-spirited character Ebenezer...
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The Los Angeles area is riddled with freeways. Most of us hate their presence and driving on them....
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On the Martin Luther King Holiday, expect President Trump to make more blatantly false...
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Sept. 11, 2001 is a reference point for Americans. Terrorists, mostly Saudis, hijacked four...
Read MoreFormer Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris had the same problem as every other Democratic presidential contender. She, like the others, tried mightily to make the case that she was her own person, with her own...
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg doesn’t downplay or play up the fact that he’s...
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Does anyone else find this blurring of the lines between reality television and the US presidency...
Read MoreCalifornia’s Democrats meet in Long Beach this weekend for their second convention of this year. Things have changed dramatically since they first met in May. Back then, things seemed so simple. But the famous words penned by...
Read MoreMy therapist recently explained to me the concept of “trauma response.” Most of my life I’ve considered trauma to only describe experiences that are indisputably devastating: war, death, chronic illness. To me, anything less was...
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In Huntington Library’s “Nineteen Nineteen” exhibition, shadows of Asian influences are present...
Read MoreMom, wherever you are, I hope you can hear this: I’m sorry. You were right. My late parents, Barbara and Arnold, grew up in North Dakota, one of the most rural states in America. Their village was tiny, and most citizens only...
Read MoreIn her novel “The Same River,” Lisa Reddick considers the ethical imperative for environmental action from the perspective of characters with unique personal situations that constrain their options for action. In the book, each...
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