I float in a sun-warmed, peanut-shaped tile pool, watching the breeze flip the palm fronds against a turquoise San Diego sky, sipping a midday mimosa. Cally, the woman for whom I was house sitting, had …
June 9, 2011
Blog Entries
- Friends Like These
- When Is a Band Reunion NOT a Reunion?
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- Border News: Pirated Discs; Nursing & Teacher Courses; Sexoservidora Detainee Released
- Local Guys Make Good (Book)
- RIP: Clay's
- A Baker's Dozen of Dining Patios
- An Angry Panda Descends on Urban Solace
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- Second Annual San Diego World Naked Bike Ride
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- After Smoking My Medicine...
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- Water Under the Bypass Bridge
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- Update San Diego, 6/9/11
- The Beaches of Baja
- Mel Blanc: T-h-h-hat's Not All, Folks!
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- San Diego SlutWalk
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- Filner Reports $13,325 from Public Employees Retirement System
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- Filner Reports $13,325 Pension Payment from Public Employees Retirement System
- Mark Stuart, Texas Culture, and the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
- Super 8 Run-Up: Steven Spielberg Checks Out His Protégé's Latest
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News & Stories
Historic Coronado, California
Tijuana Crackdown on Chewing Gum Litter
In an effort to curb certain citizens’ tendency to toss gum on city streets, Tijuana businesses, under the auspices of city hall and the police department, have posted placards that warn of fines for sidewalk …
June 9, 2011
Panama in the Buff
Today, wedged between the old and the new, the natural and the modern, Panama is a country of both paradox and transition. With a biodiversity exceeding its more famous neighbor to the northwest – Costa …
June 9, 2011
Mayan Ruins of Palenque, Mexico
Amidst jungle-shrouded hills overlooking the Usumacinta River basin in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Mayan site of Palenque is a jewel for anyone interested in ancient Mayan civilization. Palenque offers a little bit …
June 9, 2011
Drunk Baker
There are a lot of weird things people do when they’re inebriated. Some drunk dial (not recommended), others drunk drive (so very unbelievably uncool); some drunk smoke, some drunk kiss (or more, and stop looking …
June 9, 2011
Are Your Skills Marketable?
Judy Kaplan Baron, master career counselor, explains the idea of marketable skills. Talk to me about what the term ‘marketable skills’ means. Skills are those abilities that enable you to perform tasks. Some are innate …
June 9, 2011
Nobody wants to Buy What You’re Selling
We all know about networking, right? Well, it might be wise in this economy to stop doing it — at least in the way you’ve been probably been doing it. And why, in this terrible …
June 9, 2011