A sad secret simmers behind thousands of closed doors scattered throughout many middle- and even upper-class Redding neighborhoods: They’re inhabited by poor – seriously poor – people. They live in houses left over from more affluent, carefree times. The truth is that many of those home-owners are so… Continue Reading
A little advice to men posting photos on a dating service … don’t pose wearing a wife-beater T-shirt, while holding up a fish (bigger is not better) with your pit bull Sparky nearby. I heard someone say he was depressed… Continue Reading
Ode to a train. No, that is not to be confused with eau d’train!! And then you wonder who on Earth and why on Earth anyone would want to eulogize trains. I love trains. No argument against them is going… Continue Reading
Some strip malls, no matter how well located, seem to have problems keeping long-term tenants. Today there’s a parakeet groomer, tomorrow there’s a spatula sharpener in their old spot. Despite plenty of cars in the parking lot, few of those… Continue Reading
If you’ve been caught off guard when you checked in for your flight only to find the airline charges a $25 baggage fee, you weren’t alone. That airfare to New York for $199 you found on the Internet sounds too… Continue Reading
“What’s a good guidebook?” or “What guidebook do you use?” After 30-some-odd years of traveling, both by myself and with others, there isn’t any one guidebook that will suit every person’s needs. Make a trip to the bookstore and head… Continue Reading
Before I joined the ranks of happily married mommies, I was a single girl once. After college, I learned that anyone who held to not dating from their pool of coworkers had a relatively narrow field of potential mate options. Continue Reading
The smell of my lover’s cologne. On him, not on anyone else. The sound of his special ringtone when he’s finally gotten off of work after 10 hours. His hand on my hip as he leans in to kiss my… Continue Reading
There is only one thing Egyptians have more of than patience, and that is their generosity. I have never met a more giving and sharing people in all my life. As said earlier in Part 1, where I quoted Al-Hajjaj ibn… Continue Reading
Doors, doors and more doors. Not the seminal rock group. Sorry. There are doors . . . and then there are doors. Doors always carry the implication that there is something on the other side. Good, bad or indifferent, there is something… Continue Reading
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