My Three-Culture Struggle
The U.S. is full of bicultural and multicultural people. So I should fit right in. Actually, I have yet to find a demographic group where I do. It’s my parents’ legacy – that funny mixture of...
View ArticleTijuana – A Dangerous City?
As a kid, I heard that Tijuana was the most dangerous city in Mexico, and nobody decent would set foot there. So, years later, when fate decreed that I reside there for a time, I found more good than...
View ArticleIncident on the San Diego-Tijuana Border
(This is a true story, excerpted from my book,Don’t Hang Up!) The border shuttle bus from the U.S. is crammed with Mexican housekeepers, schoolchildren, and construction workers exuding the odors of...
View ArticleThe Drunken Captain
(This is a true story, excerpted from my, as yet unpublished, motivational memoir “Don’t Hang Up!” This piece appeared in the “Baja News” newspaper, in Commonties.com, in “On the Border” newsletter,...
View ArticleThe Different Faces of San Diego
“I thought San Diego must be Heaven on earth…It seemed to me the best spot for building a city I ever saw.”Alonzo Horton, builder of New Town, site of current downtown San Diego, 1877 “Of all the...
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