We went out to dinner at the invitation of my sister and her husband, who run a restaurant here in Long Beach, name of Lasher’s. Their son had graduated from middle school and, no, it’s not like getting out of college but it was a good excuse to get together on the patio on a […]

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I suppose my first inkling came a few years ago, when I was still living in Highland, and a guy I knew along my jog route always seemed to be out puttering in his front yard, and as I chugged past would call out a variation of the same encouragement. “Keep on smilin’!” I remember […]

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