The Monday after sitting proudly at my eldest's graduation from law school, I sat timidly on the San Diego trolley platform between two lives. Butterflies in my stomach, I pondered the mall and the quad. I'm going back to school.
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NPR recently discontinued its broadcast of the "This I Believe" series. I loved those. They were short essays, read by their writers, famous and not, about their core beliefs.
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After Brilliante "Dante" Mendoza's accolades as 2009 Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, Jo Moulton, founder and director of the Temecula Valley International Film and Music Festival, who screened two of Mendoza's films last year, sent him an e-mail. "Hey Dante," Moulton wrote, "No…
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A funny thing happened on my way to the Chocolate Florist in Temecula's Old Town to get some good old Hawaiian Lappert's Ice Cream -- it was gone!
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Dressed impeccably in lilac slacks and sweater, dark purple beaded bracelet, fine lavender pendant around her neck, and matching purple earrings, Irene Hampel of Sun City could be said to be the opposite of a "NIMBY," which stands for "not in my backyard."
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A trip to "The Wall" -- the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- is a moving experience. Getting there on the back of a motorcycle driven by your dad, making stops along the way at veterans cemeteries, hospitals and memorials, eating at local VFWs and having vets speak of thei…
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Temecula has been called "bucolic" and maybe even a little "backwater," but some of that Hollywood glitter often flows our way.
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"We are a pro-democracy group, as opposed to a 'one point of view advocating group,'" said Jerry Ewig, co-founder of Citizens for Democracy Temecula Valley.
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"The Anzio beachhead is a very tough problem and I hope the lads can come out alright, especially Jack," wrote my father-in-law, Carter Crall, in 1944. "Yesterday I received back a letter I had written to Rush while in the hospital. It was marked 'missing in action.' Very few of the old g…
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They say you'll never be 17 again. But Temecula resident Bob McLean, who is 60-ish, is proving you can re-experience things you enjoyed in your youth with the satisfaction of coming around full circle.
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I had a garage sale last weekend, and it was crazy! Just to put in the appropriate plug, I advertised exclusively in The Californian, picking up and posting their large yellow signs that come free with the ad, and it was non-stop crazy from 6:15 a.m. until I went and pulled down the signs…
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This is a general apology to all of Southwest County.
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I am seeing a lot of sagging lately, and I am not talking about teenagers' pants. Rather, I'm referring to fruit trees around my neighborhood and I am thinking: Let's share it with others in the area!
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Recently, while visiting my son's house, I noticed they used Charmin. I decided that, with an empty nest and toilet paper use down substantially at my own home, I could now afford the same luxury. So I bought my first armful-size package.
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When Lori Stone turned her focus from what she called her "bubble world of Temecula" to women's and children's issues on a larger regional scale she knew she was in for an education.
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