My apologies if the title of this article sounds boastful. I acknowledge I have no special insight in resolving many of life’s problems. Dilemmas involving intimate personal relationships, emotional and religious experiences, or life and death decisions, are far beyond my talents.
We human beings often don’t get it right the first time around; a fortunate few have the opportunity to do things better during a second act. Maja (Jennifer Lopez) did not finish high school but later managed to earn her GED. Things stood in the way of her earning a college degree.
The first order of business is to thank the many dozens of readers, friends and elected officials who wrote, called and otherwise expressed their condolences over the loss of our reporter, Sean Belk.
Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 11, Long Beach police officers responded to a report of an auto collision on Obispo Avenue, south of Broadway. One of the drivers, in critical condition and transported to Memorial Hospital, died of his injuries.
The often quoted expression you reap what you sow tends to be true, especially if one is sowing in the early 18th century garden of Queen Anne of England. Queen Anne (Olivia Coleman) is feeble, indecisive, frequently confused, occasionally cantankerous, petulant and falls down a lot.
It’s not “Hamilton” – its music and lyrics (by Sherman Edwards) and the book (by Peter Stone) are much more in the tradition of other standard American musicals than is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rap infused story of the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury.
The great State of California recently inaugurated its newly elected governor, Gavin Newsom, who assumes this prominent office despite an inauspicious start in life. As the child of a broken family, his mother raised him as she worked three jobs.
