Did the San Francisco Gold Rush really happen? Are you sure? Because I’m starting to wonder if I didn’t dream it. I know there are stories, but a recent encounter in Chinatown has me rethinking the validity of the events in California in 1849. If it really was as important an event as we’ve been […]
Golden Flashes
Fun With Mascots
When I was little, my sister Pam was the mascot for the junior high basketball team. She was part of the cheerleading squad, except while the cheerleaders wore those tiny pleated skirts and matching sleeveless wool tops, Pam got to wear corduroy culottes, a sweater and a giant cardboard Eagle head.It doesn’t seem right […]