Long Beach’s new fire chief, Xavier Espino, was a recent guest speaker at a Rotary Club of Long Beach luncheon aboard the Queen Mary and updated attendees on activities at the LBFD.
She is a loving mother, caring hospital nurse and a victim of significant powers that are way beyond her control – the CIA, US State Department and ISIS. Working in a hospital emergency room in a New York City suburb, the life of Helen (Susan Sarandon) is turbulent.
What is the cost of living? Perhaps it would be cheaper, less of a toll anyway, to choose other options, instead of bearing the steep tax that life sometimes imposes, often unexpectedly.
Of the numerous articles I’ve written these past years, I’ve expressed many a point of view. If I encounter a dispute, I normally favor one side or the other, for it’s seldom when both sides can be equally right or wrong.
The setting for William Inge’s 1955 play, “Bus Stop,” is a roadside diner 25 miles outside Kansas City, Kansas. A treacherous snowstorm has blanketed the thoroughfares, preventing all highway travel — halting the bus on which four passengers are being transported westward.
Where do one’s loyalties lie – with family, friends, colleagues, country or comrades in arms? The decision depends mainly on the circumstances of the persons being loyal and to whom they are directing their loyalty.
SIGNS OF THE TIMESFor those of you who remember how banks operated in the past, you may recall maintaining a passbook savings, or perhaps a money market account. You’d deposit funds into the account from time to time and, on a regular basis, receive interest income.
According to Henry David Thoreau, “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” So I’m going to make a rule that I should pay better attention to the comments I make in this column.
