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Childhood Memories

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The California We Could Afford

A childhood remembered through the places that cost little but meant everything: Hart Park, a robot slide in Saugus, the Moreton Bay fig tree, Lake Isabella, Morro Bay, Sequoia, Vasquez Rocks, fried burritos, Klieg lights, and family drives up the winding road to Castaways. Decades later, a return to California with my wife brought one of those childhood journeys full circle.

Original Essay

Batman on the Job Site

When a commercial painting job took my father onto a Los Angeles studio lot near the filming of Batman, he got a very different view of Gotham City—one seen from outside the camera frame.