Published at the Fullerton News Tribune, 9/27/90 I always thought Moms had it easy. You know, the women who stayed home with their children and didn’t have to work; the women who lived a life of relative leisure while their peers held down full-time jobs and still managed to be home in time to make…
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The View
The View From where I’m standing, I can see for miles.The tops of buildings stick out of the inland ooze to form a crooked pathway deep into the valley. And just below the horizon, the sun’s rays glint and shimmer off the Pacific Ocean. Few sights are as beautiful, or as rare. What with the…
Home Cookin’
Earl’s Home Cookin’ Chicken fried steak and eggs, steaming hot and full of grease. Or maybe it’ll be the New York steak and eggs, served with a heaping pile of home fries spilling off the platter. And be sure to order up those delicious biscuits soaked in gravy so thick you could eat the lumps…
La Vida Loca
They are, one and all, living the crazy life. It’s in the music, on the faces and in the way all the people at a typical street fair writhe and wriggle like a giant snake shedding its skin. On Mexico Street, yesterday is a fleeting memory and the future is a harmless speck on the…
Making People Fishers of Men
When I was a kid, there was no such thing as a Harvest Crusade. In fact, I don’t think we had anything even close to the Orange County-born phenomenon. There were no stadiums full of people, or Gen-X bands playing music for the Lord. No, there was nothing of the sort-not even a cool bumper…