April 28, 2013 — Danny O'Brien alerted me to this article by David Patten. I'm a former student of Patten's (7th-8th grade, early 1990s). Patten was and remains sui generis among my K-12 teachers: no one was as boldly unorthodox as he, nor as... (read more)
December 4, 2008 — Outside the front doors of La Jolla parish Mary, Star of the Sea, September 2005, I stood in the crowd of witnesses to my cousin Francis' wedding. The woman had walked up Girard Avenue, and was clasping the right... (read more)
