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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Saying Good Bye to Los Angeles

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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...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Waiting For Geppetto

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Geppetto the carpenter, Pinocchio’s famed father- For Francoise whose daughter Maelise dances ballet with our daughter Maran, and whose sad ...
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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Ninety And Still Driving

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For the ninetieth birthday of Beverly Morsey, my patient and friend for thirty years, who at eighty eight, queried when submitting to signif...
Friday, September 07, 2007

The Good Doctor Isidore K.B. Kwaw M.D.

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

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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...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007

THE SONG OF THE CAURIE SHELLS

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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...
Saturday, September 01, 2007

Called to Torah - Bar Mitzvah

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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...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

A Grandson's Wish

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for Alfred Weinstock my dear colleague and brilliant periodontist, who pined for his grandfather’s stories, but was always disappointed not ...
Monday, August 06, 2007

All Those Books

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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...
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A Traditional Toast to the Bride and Groom

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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...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

The Cutty Sark Burns

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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 ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Religious Harmony

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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 ...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

A First Christmas in Koru, Kenya - A Memory

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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...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

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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...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Veteran's Day

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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...
Friday, November 10, 2006

The Cobbler's Son

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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...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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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 ...
Saturday, November 04, 2006

A Kirkin' O' The Tartan

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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...
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Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Last Smile

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Dr. William Wanamaker M.D. my patient and friend who sponsored me into the Royal Society of Medicine. 1.21.1917. - 29. 8.2006. ...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Strengthening Your Spiritual Walk

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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 ...
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Born in Oxford and raised in Kenya, Doctor McLeod was educated at London University where he studied dentistry at Guy's Hospital, and after post graduate studies at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at USC, he settled in Los Angeles. Doctor McLeod is a performing poet and author who has produced many volumes of poetry ten of which have been recorded with music by Jim Covell.
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