Recently, something’s come up: The stupid question. Quite honestly, I ask it a lot — and have since I first started getting sharp as a...

Somehow, the upperclass floormate of a girl I hooked up with had called, and invited me to her dorm room. But it felt odd, and rang with...

In the early stages of event unfolding, a truck plowed through a crowd of New Year’s revealers, followed by a police shootout with the...

In 2008, voting for Barack Obama was a clear decision to me. At the time, America was emerging from two-terms of George W. Bush,  Ground...

Like it or not, out here in SoCal your family and mine qualify as coastal elites — owning million dollar properties just minutes from the...

I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...

Nothing throws off an ambling wanderer like being stuck, isolated in a hotel. Welcome to Grand Sierra Resort, the place that doesn’t want...

A day of girls volleyball wins on-court at the Salt Lake City Showdown was met with lackluster convention center food fare. Cutting to...

Special to Great Pacific Review - by Jason James Barry Why do the simplest things never work out so simply? Of course I‘m talking about...

Notifications came from school. Early pick-up. And then, none of us knew what was next. That whole week, I had been stocking up and...

There was a time, not long ago, when someone said something in passing and said it to an actual person — and that essentially was that....

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr… The need for his words rings truer and louder now, in times when divides by race have been grasped and...

a Buzzard Digital interview with author Jason James Barry Buzzard Digital: You wrote a police memoir, “The Midnight Coffee Club: A Memoir...

Twice now, and more so, I’ve been made privy to old friends or past co-workers who’ve been under arrest. The most recent was a “now...

The gun violence problem people have been talking about — when did ours begin? I’ve asked this out loud and to myself in the wake of the...

Reviews on Yelp said the food was “hit or miss.” We were in the mood for barbecue. We were pass through Escondido. So we decided to...

In case you didn’t notice, for the better part of 140-some-odd days there’s been a writer’s strike. I actually think it's over. The...

I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...

Is a bad cup of coffee considered an existential crisis or a petty first-world problem? I think the former. Or is it the latter?...

When I started looking into some of my father’s old police cases, I didn’t expect to get pulled in so fully, the same way I think he did....