by Carolyn Bickford
After our visit to UCLA, my family decided it would be interesting to visit a bookstore in LA. I scoffed at the very notion: Los Angelenos do not read. They watch movies, they write screenplays, but they do not read….
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This blog has chronicled the shocking ease by which at least one criminal was able to scootch around the California criminal system, despite multiple felony car thefts. The felon in question, Andrew Clark Bergman, stole Peter’s car on Labor Day…
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the City of San Jose went after my son for a business license because he’d reported his modest non-employee income to the IRS and the State. Despite multiple protestations from me and…
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I found myself surprisingly infuriated when yesterday a friend told me about a near-attack from a vicious dog, with an even more vicious owner. According to him, he was out and about one day when an unleashed dog ran up…
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At the end of our weekend in Los Angeles, and since we’d already visited one college (Caltech), Peter decided an impromptu visit to UCLA might be in order. I mildly discouraged it — some of my friends went to school…
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Like most homeschoolers, I’m just blundering through, hoping for the best, and being as surprised as anyone that it seems to be working out just fine. But as Neil is technically in his high school years, and he likes college,…
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Our 15-year-old son, Neil, works once a week at the family business, and earns about $1500 each year. For this we issue him a 1099 form every year reporting his income to himself, the IRS, and the State of California,…
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