Archive for April, 2012
What Now? Clando Can Read
If you can read this, you’re ‘way ahead of the thousands of adults and children in our town who can’t. Because they can’t, they either fake their way through their lives, or settle for minimum achievement – minimum opportunities; they never experience the pined-for successes they could actually achieve – if they could read. With […]
Eat. Drink. Read. A Culinary Event for Literacy
The San Diego Council on Literacy (SDCOL) has challenged over a dozen of San Diego’s finest Chefs to prepare a gourmet dishes inspired by a favorite book. The results of their imagination will be served to those who attend the third annual Eat. Drink. Read – A Culinary Event for Literacy event from 5:30 – […]
Vons – A Glimpse Ahead
Mother’s Day is on the horizon Vons, located at 515 W. Washington Street, opened with enthusiasm and lots of energy well over a month ago. Now the locals and guests have settled in to enjoy the new store and all that it has to offer. Some of Vons’ customers are enjoying the fact that the […]
The Birth of a Building
The abandoned construction site across the street was there when I moved in four years ago. It had a sense of sadness about it, an ongoing reminder of the decline of the building industry. It was a dying piece of property and a blight on the neighborhood. Rusted iron poles stood up straight as trees […]
Safe Computing
Originally, I was going to write about disability insurance, but another topic came up that seemed a bit more urgent to me, so I’ll pick that up again next month. I spent a good portion of Good Friday helping a family member fix her computer. Somehow, she had managed to contract a wicked case of […]
Why Do My Orchids Die?
In March, Mission Hills Garden Club members learned about the cultivation of orchids from Tom Biggart. He has loved orchids most of his life and has a vast variety of them. He has so many plants that he and his wife had to leave their Kensington home for more land in El Cajon. This was […]
Danny Weller and Third Story
By Richard Cone A professional bassist since the young age of 16, Danny Weller has backed up numerous jazz artists such as Gilbert Castellanos, Geoffrey Keezer, Charles McPherson, Mike Wofford, Peter Sprague, Jason Palmer, Mike Moreno, and Obed Calviere. He’s also backed artists such as blues-singer Earl Thomas, and Scott Russo of Unwritten Law. Weller […]
Secret # 7: Giving Acknowledgement or Positive Support
More Than Nice Talk Sabine Starr, Certified Life Coach In this series of 10 stunningly simply principles that can improve life quality significantly, number seven is about giving acknowledgements and positive support. Our minds are constantly receiving loads of information from our five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch with our skin. If the incoming […]
To Sleep, Perchance to Take Herbs
There has been a recent blast of new research that confirms something you already suspected: you are sleep deprived and it is causing health problems for you. The evidence is now overwhelming that lack of sleep, even just the occasional all-nighter to study or finish a good book, has an immediate effect on blood sugar, […]
Cinderella
In its 44th season, California Ballet Company enthusiastically announces a production of “Cinderella” at the San Diego Civic Theatre, Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6 in downtown San Diego. Choreographed by Eugene Ballet Artistic Director, Toni Pimble, and featuring Serge Prokofiev’s score, this production boasts a seasoned cast including California Ballet Company Ballerina Chie […]
