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Recent Columns:
My Saturday column -- about a campaign by college admissions counselors to scale back reliance on the SAT -- reflected the angst of high school students, jostling for spots at space-crunched universities.
Hundreds of thousands of high school juniors and seniors are filing bleary-eyed into classrooms across the country this morning for the school year's first seating of the SAT.
I figured my column on tattooed firefighters would ruffle feathers this weekend, but I didn't know it would land me in the midst of a culture war:
In June, I wrote about a new Los Angeles Fire Department policy requiring firefighters on duty to cover their tattoos, whether they're out on a call or in the station.
Until now, I thought of Craigslist in much the same way as I think of medical marijuana shops -- a legal conduit to illicit, if not illegal, activities.
I don't know what Aunt Flo thought about my Saturday column, and its not-so-subtle attempt to nudge her toward the ranks of computer literati.
The cheering this week by Rose Parade fans had nothing to do with flowers or floats or New Year's Day weather forecasts.
Somehow, her tears made me feel better.
If I ever thought an "empty nest" at home meant an end to parenting, as I said in my newspaper column Saturday, the stories emerging from this weekend's coverage of the deadly Metrolink train crash painfully put that notion to rest:
It took four phone calls to get her through the stir-fried chicken -- the first dinner my 19-year-old daughter tried to cook in her new apartment this week.