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How often do we who live here in the City of the Angels have to feel that ache when some one we have grown to love comes to the point where...

Geppetto the carpenter, Pinocchio’s famed father- For Francoise whose daughter Maelise dances ballet with our daughter Maran, and whose sad ...

For the ninetieth birthday of Beverly Morsey, my patient and friend for thirty years, who at eighty eight, queried when submitting to signif...

This extraordinarily well qualified compassionate physician provides emergency care at his "Urgent Care" facility at 9201 Sunset B...

for Terry Becker a visiting emergency patient 9.7.2007 A patient who said just to tease While I fixed his teeth up, Sir, please, Write me a...

There is a legend that if you should gather twelve caurie shells on the coral beach, the fairy folk will weave a spell that will bring you b...

For a son who is being called to the Torah this year October 6th 2007 Show me a dark-eyed handsome lad Whose face is like the full moon, Who...

for Alfred Weinstock my dear colleague and brilliant periodontist, who pined for his grandfather’s stories, but was always disappointed not ...

Down From The Shelves A self criticism My friend Andrew Ettinger can’t remodel his house with all the books in the way so they have to moved...

Last New Year's Eve, in Redding - California, Cory proposed to Brittney. This was the second time I have seen proposal on the stroke o...

I am mourning the near demise by fire of the Cutty Sark the fastest tea clipper ever to ply the seas between Britain and the Far East. She ...

When my niece Bailey was just going up to university at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, that’s in California, I went rootling around ...

A First Christmas in Koru The picture shows a family group with friends in1951. My father is holding me in the back row and Alan is wearing...

The First Thanksgiving An answer to Dr. Clement Moore - for my American family The first year was over, they'd settled the land. Now Ply...

A Man Who Will Listen A story from Ian MacLeod of Western Australia - He was approached while wearing his father’s battle medals by an old s...

Ohannes (John) Makhdomian has been repairing my shoes for thirty years. He has a shop in the Farmers Market on Fairfax. He is famous now f...

Old Glory Faded For City National Bank, and any one else who flies our nation’s flag and forgets to take care of it. Sing this to the old ...

The Kirkin’ O’ the Tartan Saturday November 4th 2006 Photo courtesy of Karen Johnson Why do we do this? Why did a small group of Saint Andre...

Dr. William Wanamaker M.D. my patient and friend who sponsored me into the Royal Society of Medicine. 1.21.1917. - 29. 8.2006. ...

Every now and then, the fervor of the ‘born again’ gets up my nose. I believe I am actually jealous of the acuity with which they can trot ...