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Professor Jules Lambert Zentner – My Best Friend During My Darkest Years

When I ran marathons in seventh grade, I would drive to them with a bachelor professor in his thirties. He may have been the first in my life-long string of substitute father figures. I’d usually meet him around 4 a.m. … Continue reading

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The Day Class Stopped

I was in seventh grade (at a Seventh-Day Adventist school, P.U.C. Elementary, in the Napa Valley) one morning. But there was no teacher. All the teachers were in a meeting. I started getting nervous. I feared they were in a … Continue reading

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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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What Makes An Angeleno?

I’ve lived in Los Angeles since 1994. I spent most of 1977-1993 in Northern California (chiefly the Napa Valley and 40 minutes north of Sacramento in Auburn). Stimulated by this Hector Tobar essay, here are the big differences I see … Continue reading

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I Want To Connect To My Deepest Purpose

I want to make it big. I want to be huge. I want to feel full of purpose and passion. I want to get up every morning eager to tackle the day. I want to see the path ahead and … Continue reading

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