Category Archives: PUC

The Lunch That Changed My Life

In December of 1979, I was part-way through eighth grade at the Seventh-Day Adventist Pacific Union College Elementary school in Angwin, CA, 94508. My father taught in the college’s Religion department but he was being shipped with my mother to … Continue reading

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Just Lunch

Last week, I had lunch with a young woman. She was breathing and I really like that trait in a girl. Only a simple thing prevented me from touching her — my faith in God and in the LAPD. As … Continue reading

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Action Jackson

My parents and I left the Seventh-Day Adventist church in August 1980 (I’m talking practically, not bureaucratically). We moved to Auburn, California, where my dad started Good News Unlimited, a non-denominational evangelical Christian foundation aka the invisible church of Jesus … Continue reading

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Remembering Girls In Angwin, CA

One of the ways I classify places is whether or not I ever made it there. I only ever made it in LA, Sacramento, Orlando, Vancouver, Las Vegas and Big Sur (beside a cliff overlooking the ocean underneath a loving … Continue reading

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The Uninvited

D. emails: "I’ll make it simple for you, Sunny Jim. It’s because you’re a fair-dinkum obnoxious whinger who can’t see beyond himself." Tuesday night. His assignment was to draw with crayons a picture of his life today. (Similar assignment from … Continue reading

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