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Jun.09.2010
I recently put a very large smile on my 61-year-old sister-in-law's face when I called her and told her that her brother had left her $100,000. She has a beautiful complexion already, with only a few crow's feet suggesting a lifetime under the Southern California sun. When we went to the bank...
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May.04.2010
I spent some time this evening reviewing the semi-monthly check registers issued by the city for which I work. It's generally boring, unless I find entries showing odd connections between projects paid for with city dollars managed by familiar names on what looks like (and I may be wrong) a no-bid...
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About John
What's a Pennsylvania German doing in a corner of Los Angeles County? Why has he stuck it out here since 1986? What charms do palm trees and clement weather hold that 10 inches of topsoil, regular rain, humidity, and snow lack? And what would possibly make...
John’s Favorite Books
A tricky question. Of late, Harper Lee's biography, "Mockingbird". Halfway through Proust (probably stuck for life). Dante's Inferno. As a librarian, so...