Archive for April, 2011

Public Parks vs. My ‘Hood

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Recently, I took my children to  park day at Lincoln Glen Park in the middle of San Jose, a neighborhood between cute old small Willow Glen homes which house both upscale families who love the character of old neighborhoods and immigrants who look for affordable housing. It’s a fairly busy park with a regular traffic [...]

Books Ruin Movies

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

I just wrote a scathing review of “The Last of the Mohicans” on Netflix. Neil and I read it for CSA earlier this year, and it was an intriguing book, though sometimes difficult, like when entire passages were in French. But Neil laughed at the scenes where a character disguises himself as a beaver (and [...]

by Carolyn Bickford