BEYOND RED ROSES; LOVE POEMS TO HELP WOO THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE
TODAY’S THE DAY. And for whatever reason, you’ve done nothing about it. Perhaps you disdain the Valentine frippery of pink and red, that manipulated outpouring of emotion and the pressure to perform. Perhaps you’ve procrastinated, assuming that when the moment arrived, expressions of love would simply fall from your lips….
READY FOR SENSORY OVERLOAD? TRY POINT LOBOS RESERVE
There are no wolves in Point Lobos State Reserve. True, Lobos translates from Spanish to “wolves.” The original name, Punta de los Lobos Marinos, granted sometime in the 19th century, refers to the “sea wolves,” or the sea lions lazily sunning themselves in a heap offshore from Sea Lion Point….
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Elvis’ doc making hay on drugs he gave singer Making a living off the dead gets even more morbid with the former doctor accused of overprescribing drugs to Elvis Presley. George Nichopoulos, the singer’s longtime physician who was acquitted in 1981 of charges that he overprescribed drugs for Presley, Jerry…
PACIFIC GROVE GROOVES ON RETURN OF MONARCH BUTTERFLIES
On Christmas day in Pacific Grove, I was standing under a canopy of monarch butterflies with my ex-boyfriend of years past. At first, it had looked as though the cluster of eucalyptus trees was filtering out the afternoon sun. I realized, though, that the sky was literally aflutter with wings….
KITSCH BLENDS WITH POSTMODERN IN S.F. NEIGHBORHOOD
FINDING AN AUTHENTIC San Francisco neighborhood to hang out in can be a problem nowadays. First, you have to resolve all that sociological terminology on what neighborhood authenticity means anyway. For me, that means fewer chain stores and more cobblers. It also means the inevitable Starbucks has to be in…
HER COLLECTION WAS A WELCOME MAT; AS A CHILD, THIS FAN EMULATED LUCY AND FELT FOR LINUS; NOW SHE FEELS SHE’S LEARNED A LOT FROM SCHULZ
“Peanuts” was part of my acculturation. I immigrated to the United States when I was 6 months old, and my family still retained the teachings and belief systems of the old culture. That meant a strict upbringing, which left me alone for much of my childhood. The “Peanuts” characters became…
20 THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2000
THE LONG good sigh. Who knows when it stopped mattering if the first day of the year ushered in apocalyptic madness or anticlimactic peace. What mattered was the wait was over, with everyone letting out a collective sigh of relief. With all the two-digit focus, however, barely a thought could…
SUDDEN CAREER CHANGE WAS SUPPORTED BY FAITH; SHEILA COOK EMBRACED THE SEVENTH PRINCIPLE OF KWANZAA WITHOUT KNOWING IT; SHE LET GOD LEAD THE WAY
This is the seventh in a series celebrating Kwanzaa, a nonreligious holiday celebrating African-American heritage, pride, community, family and culture. Each day we profile a person or family who exemplifies one of Kwanzaa’s seven guiding principles. SHEILA COOK had been on the fast track in her Bell System job in…