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Compton High School
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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

Posted on February 15, 2016 by judith / 0 Comment

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” – Libba Bray I was bummed when “Straight Outta Compton” received only one Oscar...

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PEARS IN RED WINE

Posted on June 16, 2014 by judith / 6 Comments

In memory of my dear friend, Mary, the magical “Claire” of my memoir who died Sunday, June 15, of a brain tumor, I am re-posting this chapter from m...

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A VALENTINE FOR MY GAY EX-HUSBAND

Posted on February 12, 2014 by judith / 1 Comment

” Perhaps the story of our love belongs to the 1960s, when everything seemed possible, a spirit we never lost.” I met him in graduate school during ...

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WHEN A BROTHER DIES

Posted on August 23, 2013 by judith / 18 Comments

“Even siblings we don’t see, who live differently from us, who move in their own world, may be shoring up our lives, our sense of family, our feeling of b...

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RETURN TO DEATH VALLEY

Posted on July 10, 2013 by judith / 6 Comments

  My husband Bill and I sat in the dining room of the Furnace Creek Inn. Arched windows, heavy wooden beams, and circles of metal chandelier-—the Inn felt like ...

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DEATH VALLEY DATE NUT BREAD: ON THE FRONTIER WITH MOTHER

Posted on June 25, 2013 by judith / 1 Comment

My mother’s love of glamour began in the Mojave, not as unlikely a place for romance as it might seem. She was twenty-six when her sister Marit and her brother-...

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SOUR MILK BISCUITS: ON THE FRONTIER WITH DAD

Posted on June 13, 2013 by judith / 1 Comment

My parents belonged to a generation that was on the move. Along with so many others in the 1920s and 1930s, they’d left midwestern prairie homes and migrated to...

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COQ AU VIN

Posted on January 17, 2013 by judith / 6 Comments

October 2005, I was to meet my daughter, Hannah, in London where she was taking  dreamy courses like “The British Museum,”  “Shakespeare,” and “Contemporary Dra...

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CHRISTMAS IN COMPTON

Posted on December 17, 2012 by judith / 1 Comment

“Many household food memories are a mixture of conviviality and tension.” — Janet Flammang, A Taste for Civilization I was a miserable child, made more mi...

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