Diary

Show me a native San Diegan who doesn't speak Spanglish, and I'll show you a damn lie. Hell, just the way most people pronounce San Diego is Spanglish. But I…

I wrote One Night with Jeremy: Rae's Turn more than a year ago. I remember thinking I wanted to do another revision, but I lost my inspiration. And so it…

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... the importance of the God being born of a "Virgin" did not come originally from any puritanical impulses. Classically, the term Virgin meant a woman who was "one-in-herself," who…

When I was 14 years old, I heard a news anchor mention sex crimes against women. It gave me pause. I wondered why he said "against women" because I had…

Summer 1957. A 17-year-old boy moved alone from a rural town in Louisiana to Los Angeles. On his first Sunday there, he went to church. Two seats down from him…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP1UTy4YwbM From The West Wing, Season 3, Episode 22: We Killed Yamamoto I was around six years old when my father said he needed to leave me home alone for…

Doing harm to others and taking pleasure in it. We all hurt people inadvertently but instantly regret it. But when someone purposely seeks to cause pain in others and takes…

I watched Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) for the first time yesterday. (Oh, how I adore me some Judy Garland.) I've never seen the musical. I'm still trying to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbaDEnFHehg This scene from The West Wing Season 4, Episode 15, "Inauguration: Over There," waswritten by the incomparable Mr. Aaron Sorkin. Notice the snowballs. When I was 21 years old, I…