Rarely do I write my Beachcombing column two weeks in advance, but the last two columns generated a bit of a firestorm that was not anticipated, so the need is there to expand on my comments and initially publish them here – online.
It’s understandable why newspapers are having problems these days. Their subscribers can get whatever they need from the Internet. And for those of us who browse it daily, it’s impressive what’s there to be found.
Agatha Christie goes to the movies in 2019. The film she chooses is Knives Out – one that she might have created herself. The pieces to this story/puzzle are all in place – a death of questionable cause, various suspects and numerous reasons for the death. It’s all here, so sit back, Ms.
In 1963 an act of domestic terrorism took the lives of four children – four little girls who happened to be African American citizens of the United States. The crime was the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
With only two days to go before Christmas, my attention fixated on an article in the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times. The title: “Make housing a 2020 issue.” What particularly attracted my interest was its author, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti.
The father of a family of four feels that if you have no plan, things can’t go wrong. The wife wholeheartedly agrees; the young-adult son and daughter have a different perspective.
