Category: Family
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Hunan Juan
(Hunan Yuan) Today, my family took me out to lunch to my favorite Chinese restaurant in California, Hunan Yuan of Redwood Road, Oakland. Szechuan Palace is my other favorite, but I’m not sure if it’s still there. In Park Slope, Brooklyn, in the late 1980s, they served the best sesame chicken on the planet. I…
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Ranked #6 on Amazon List!
White Fences Black Stars My new book, White Fences Black Stars, is now available, click here to read a sample or purchase on Amazon. Here are its current rankings:
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A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci My rating: 5 of 5 stars So there are a lot of books I’ve given 4-5 Stars to, but this book deserves ten stars. Baldacci has created a story that already existed, likely in many lives, but he unearthed it with great care, as Stephen…
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Echo Men’s Retreat
At Mount Hermon, near Santa Cruz, CA My church, Central Christian, is in San Jose, California. It is a great place for Christians and God-seekers to congregate if they are serious about their faith, but also realize they are imperfect people in progress. We men of Central, some of us, participate in an annual men’s…
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‘Spare’
Spare, by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is a triumphant and engrossing volume, and is apparently outdoing other autobiographies and memoirs by a country mile.
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Haz
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex After reading Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex’s book, Spare, I want to reduce the rating of many other reviews to less than five stars, but in fact, Spare deserves greater than 5-Stars. From his childhood, mourning the loss of his mother, unable to accept she was gone well into his…
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Travel, Food & Baseball
We go to see the Oakland A’s play most every year. We drive to the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train, and take it to the Coliseum. The ride is pretty nice, and it’s a lot cleaner than the New York subway, although I have good memories of riding the IRT to Manhattan in my…
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DMX’ Daughter a Mature & Brilliant Young Person
So, I saw this video today on NBC Bay Area news, and was very impressed with this young lady, who made insightful comments, sometime after her father, and two other relatives died in Fentanyl related tragedies. Her father was rapper, DMX, aka Earl Simmons. Her comments show great insight, and I’m sorry for her terrible…
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More than meets the eye…
I enjoyed Sam Witwicky, and the original Transformers movie, but today’s viewing of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, was fresh and original. For all the awesome effects and sounds, the movie is fun and exciting, but it’s the human interactions that I enjoy most, particularly in this film, with a family where the older son…
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Word of the Week…
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