RIGHT OFF, no sooner than five minutes after we stepped onto Pioneer Park’s green lawn, we met up with an elderly black-and-tan fellow gone white at the muzzle and sporting a red-and-white stripped Dr. Seuss …
October 31, 1996
News & Stories
San Diego dachshunds and the people who love them
A dachshund gives his heart to one person
Although dachshund owners may not say so to acquaintances, most of us sleep with our dogs. They, after all, were bred to burrow and take naturally to quilts and comforters.
October 31, 1996
Homeless who hang at the downtown San Diego library
On the second floor is a character I recognize. I’ve seen this individual bicycling around town, along Pacific Coast Highway, and in Ocean Beach. Today this person is reading an instructional book on Mandarin Chinese.
October 31, 1996
Why pirates wore gold earrings
Dear Matthew Alice: A friend and I have had a long-standing argument regarding why the sailors of old pierced their ears. Nowadays everybody and his uncle does it, but I believe it was because, on …
October 31, 1996
When our eyeballs grow
Matt: Do our eyes grow, or are we all born with a full-sized set? — W.B., San Diego The usually all-knowing, all-seeing Matt Alice was blindsided on this one. Growing eyeballs? What nonsense, I figured. …
October 31, 1996
London Daily Mail crossword puzzle and D-Day
Dear Mr. Alice: I love crossword puzzles. Someone once told me they were invented during World War II to send coded messages. I think that’s wrong, but I don’t know the real origin. Can you …
October 31, 1996