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Tag Archives: placer high school
Steve Jobs Was 56
The chairman of Apple computers is dead. I think I first encountered a personal computer around 1981 at the Albion Field Station, a Seventh-Day Adventist retreat in Mendocino County affiliated with Pacific Union College. The operator of the station had … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Internet, Personal
Tagged apple computers, auburn journal, gladstone observer, high school sports, placer high school, sierra community college, tannum sands
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What To Do With Luke
“Nobody knew what to do with his brain,” said a 1982 classmate of mine at Placer High School. “He was so hyper-verbal.” I often don’t know what to do with myself. I guess I should take comfort in other people … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Personal
Tagged face of disaster, fear of abandonment, high school journalism, neutral events, placer high school, rape experience
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My Voice Anxiety
My father is an accomplished public speaker. I grew up in his shadow, listening to hundreds of his speeches. I saw him mesmerize thousands. I heard his voice effortlessly fill large halls. He sounded like God to me. He sounded … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander Technique, Personal
Tagged coach tom landry, dallas cowboys, journalism class, placer high school, tom landry, union college library
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High School Game Of The Week
I was just watching ESPN and it advertised that on Friday night at 7pm PST, it will show this high school football game between the Grant Pacers and the Folsom Bulldogs. I went to the redneck Placer High School (class … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Personal
Tagged high school football, placer high school, seventh day adventist, seventh day adventists, social achievement, welfare dependency
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The Girl’s Glance That Ended My Cheating Career
The only way I passed Chemistry was by “taking advantage of the surroundings” as the smart kid next to me put it in my Placer High School yearbook. My preacher daddy always warned me about cheating and I knew it … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged beginning algebra, book test, high school yearbook, intermediate algebra, placer high school, smart kid
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Facing Up To Myself
I’ve been on a jihad — inner spiritual struggle — the past few weeks to reconnect on Facebook with friends from my past who are no longer in my life. Last night, I leafed through my 1983 and 1984 Placer … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal
Tagged Facebook, high school yearbooks, placer high school, shabbat dinner, shopping at the supermarket, spiritual struggle
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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
Posted in Adventist, Personal, PUC
Tagged desmond ford, elementary school kids, placer high school, rob stutzman, seventh day adventists, things of the spirit
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A Bit Much To Handle
I once met this nice girl who made me laugh and I made her laugh and I thought everything was great until she said, "I think you’re funny and nice, but you’re a bit much to handle." And she left … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged 10th grade, journalism advisor, journalism program, nice girl, placer high school
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High School Memories
From a girl I was in love with throughout Placer High School (we graduated in June 1984): I was cruising around Classmates and My Space, just thinking about some of the people I knew so long ago (and avoiding work) … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged classmates, dissection, earthworm, high school memories, placer high school
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I Just Interviewed A Hero Of Mine
On October 25, I sent off this email: Dear Dr. [Lowell] Cohn, I would love to interview you (about your writing) by phone for my blog Lukeford.net. I have interviews on there with dozens of authors. My work has been … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Sports
Tagged joe hamelin, khyl, luke ford, placer high school, sierra college, sports columnist
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