Making a Difference: The Power of Observation
My father was a harrum scarrum young man in the 1940’s. The eldest child in a family of four with a dad who often wandered off, he was raised in a poor family supported by my grandmother’s job in the...
View ArticleHistorical Fiction: Life Before the Internet?
As a graduate of UCLA, I appreciate the hand my alma mater played in the development of the Internet. I can even give a grudging nod to the self- proclaimed inventor,former Vice-President Al Gore, who...
View ArticleCirculating Valuables
Eighteen years ago, my husband decided to read all the works of Sir Walter Scott. We lived in Hawai’i at the time, and I methodically requested Scott novels every time I went to the library. Because...
View ArticleUCLA–Back to the Research Library
UCLA’s Young Research Library I returned to UCLA‘s University Research Library recently to finish my research on A Poppy in Remembrance. (Back in the dark ages when I was a student, we called it the...
View ArticleA Dream of Loved Ones–For Comfort
She was prettier in the dream. I knew it was a dream as I stood on the balcony overlooking the sweeping view of the Los Angeles harbor. My parents loved that view. I turned and recognized the french...
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