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The end of the school year compels me to write another story -- though certainly not the last -- about one of LAUSD's most successful but most beleaguered campuses.
I improvised my presentation by engaging in a discussion about current social media practices here. But somewhere in the discussion, I went off on a not-too-irrelevant tangent and unexpectedly landed on the topic of Asian American identity.
Each time I see Two Trees they whisper the same thing to me. If your town has an icon -- and I'm betting it does -- you understand.
The finer pleasures of Big Lots, a store for our times.
This year I spent time with four men who changed education here, back in 1965 when de facto segregation was the norm in California, when violently-enforced segregation was the law of the South.
These kinds of people, they reside in the places that last. In our character. In our choices. In our minds and our hearts.
Messing with the wet concrete of a new sidewalk is a trope of suburban comedy -- Dennis the Menace meets exasperated workman. But what persists after is a different kind of challenge.
What is certain will be our demographics: Los Angeles County's population will be predominately Latino and Asian.
The mayoral runoff is almost upon us, and every four years I think about how great it would be if all of us could vote for mayor. By "all of us" I mean everybody in the county.