My book “Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Land” (Counterpoint Press) began as a struggle to come to terms with questions that have lingered since my childhood — about my origins, about my place, about what it means to inhabit this land and to be a citizen of this nation. Early on, the mountains,…
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Q. I am in my mid-60s and married to a wonderful, much older man. I hope he lives forever! Being practical, I need to plan for my financial security. How do I go about finding a roommate to share housing expenses if I find myself living alone? I would like to stay in my same…
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A Los Angeles County supervisor is calling for the temporary shuttering of a medical device sterilizing plant and the investigation of other similar facilities elsewhere in Southern California after the region’s air quality agency detected unsafe levels of a cancer-causing gas in Vernon. The South Coast Air Quality Management District began investigating Sterigenics in Vernon…
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It’s no small accomplishment that on my injured daughter’s last night at my house after her nine-week recuperation, we were able to share a dinner table to celebrate that her doctors have cleared her to return home. It’s actually been nine weeks, eight hours and 16 minutes, but why would I be counting? Let me…
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San Bernardino. Poway. El Paso. Atlanta. Buffalo. And on May 15, in the lunch hall of a Presbyterian church favored by older Taiwanese Americans, Laguna Woods. In recent years and days, each of these cities, as well as dozens of others, has been a backdrop for the highest of high-profile hate crimes; with some residents…
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Saturday was about what Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo thinks he is, as well as what he could be. At the morning shootaround at TD Garden, the Adebayo conversation was about failing to break through in the voting for NBA All-Defense, relegated to the second team for the third consecutive season, yet to make the…
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Over ceviche and margaritas at a family lunch last Saturday, the conversation turning, as conversations will, to the rise of authoritarian leaders around the world, and thus to to the rebirth of the Ferdinand Marcos dynasty in the Philippines, my cousin reminded me that Marcos’ lover Dovie Breams Villagran used to live across the street…
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When Chicago Cubs reliever Scott Effross first learned his sidearm delivery, he watched a lot of hitting videos. Because he uses more lower-half load than a conventional pitching delivery, his process more closely resembles a hitter’s. Dissecting those hitting videos became a valuable tool, helping him tap into his lower half more while using his…
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When you’ve watch enough baseball in Chicago, you soon realize what goes around comes around. The angst accompanying the early-season travails of the White Sox is not unfamiliar. Neither is fan anxiety over the trade status of a popular Cubs player. Here’s a look at how two Sox and Cubs seasons from the past relate…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — The Cal State Fullerton softball team fought off elimination once on Saturday before seeing its season come to an end with an 8-5 loss to San Diego State late Saturday night at the Tempe NCAA regional. The Big West Conference champion Titans (37-22) took an early 5-0 lead when Jessi Alcala belted…
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