by Todd Strain KNSD TV7 San Diego If you were looking at the Stagecoach gym floor in Carlsbad during a recent Sunday, you’d see athletic shoes, knee pads, goals and balls — just like your average sporting event. The only difference is no one on the court that day could see. This was …
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Is Small Talk A Big Help In Making Friends?
by Kevin Burton Are we going today from sublime to ridiculous? Or is that just my bias? Yesterday we ran part of a Los Angeles Times story about making friends in our adult years. We finish that story, by reporter Seraphina Seow today. Psychologists interviewed by The Times, offered five suggestions for …
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Legendary Composer Bacharach Dead At 94
by Kevin Burton You know Burt Bacharach, even when it’s not Burt Bacharach. Bacharach died Wednesday at home in Los Angeles of natural causes, according to his publicist, Tina Brausam. The Kansas City-born composer had an unmistakable sound, especially in his work with longtime writing partner, lyricist Hal David. The New …
Retirement Practice Makes Perfect, I Hope
by Kevin Burton I’ve got retirement fever now. May it spark in me a desire for discipline. Retirement has been on my mind for a while, but the taste for it was whetted during our recent vacation, spent mostly in Nebraska and South Dakota. We called the trip retirement practice. I would say …
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Letters From Hamburg: Next Step, Studio
by Kevin Burton Hamburg is a city in Germany about twice the size of Columbus, Ohio. Don’t know too much else about it. Except that it was the proving ground that turned the Beatles from a pretty good club band to the best band of the rock and roll era. Best band …
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