Today is Memorial Day. Well, at least it was when I wrote this column. When it comes around Memorial Day always awakens something within me that is unique and difficult to explain. It is a warm holiday. When I say “warm” I do not mean...
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So the NFL owners, terrified that Trump would send a mean tweet their way or that MAGA hat wearing fans would turn the channel from football to NASCAR, decided to capitulate and sell out their players by banning kneeling during the playing of the national...
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Davis, California May 23, 2018 by David Weinshilboum Editor’s note: David Weinshilboum has a son who attends Da Vinci Charter Academy High School in Davis. Davis police continue to investigate a Davis high school senior who on Monday evening posted a threatening message on social...
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“You have your mother’s eyes, high cheek bones and big smile,”is what others tell me when I show them a picture of my mom. Inwardly I cringe, wanting to give them a snarky reply, but instead I politely thank them and immediately change the subject....
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We aren’t the weeds in the crack of life. We’re the strong,amazing flowers that found a way to grow in the most challenging conditions Jeanne McElvaney, Spirit Unbroken: Abby’s Story I was recently diagnosed with severe, chronic PTSD — “like combat soldiers have,” the woman...
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This is what I know Post coffee Pre wine Last week was the anniversary of my Mom’s death. A little bit about my mom. She was crazy nuts gorgeous; like wowza beautiful. She could stop traffic & if you stole her parking space out from...
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I wanted to do something different this year than honor my mother on Mother’s Day. Don’t get it twisted. My mother was a saint and deserves kudos for raising five boys. But this year I want to honor my second mom and that’s my best...
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It was April 1984, and my mother was dying, so I drove up from Southern California to spend time with her. She was at home, as she had no desire to live out her remaining days in a hospital. She told me that she had...
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I grew up listening to Bill Cosby comedy albums. I can’t even count how many times my brothers and I listened to Noah, Revenge, the Water Bottle and Fat Albert (Buck, Buck.) We used to watch the Saturday morning cartoon, Fat Albert and the Cosby...
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