by altha-admin | May 15, 2012 | Articles
My Dad loved to tease me as a kid. The one thing that would really set me off is when he started taunting me with "Let's go by Arthur a Barney Doll!" As an adolescent, I wanted as little to do as possible the perennially optimistic...
by altha-admin | May 15, 2012 | Articles
While working in local high schools, I would hear the students greet each other, saying: "Qué paso, guey [pronounced "way"]? When I read an article in the LA Times about Spanish slang, I found out that "Guey" is a corruption of the word...
by altha-admin | May 14, 2012 | Articles
Rejection of austerity has pressed a growing margin of Greek voters to support with audacity a political party which swears by "Mein Kampf" and offers up Nazi salutes as a send-off during political deliberations. The sudden resurgence of the "Golden...
by altha-admin | May 14, 2012 | Articles
The Redondo Beach Unified School District has arranged for drug-sniffing dogs to begin searching their local high school. This sobering development should be enough to sober up parents and local leaders in the community to the grim truth: Beach Cities youth are...
by altha-admin | May 14, 2012 | Articles
so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens. The ultimate in minimalist Imagism, one may argue, is William Carlos Williams' snapshot of life "The Red Wheelbarrow". The images conjured up by the poem suggest...
