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Jason James Barry
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The Story Behind That One Picture
I still get emotional at the sight and the thought of it. She had quietly fussed with her outfit. She landed on a black tee shirt and...
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GPR Editorial
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The Safe Harbor Michael Allman Made
The subject of this, a parent Facebook group, has come into view — and to some, even scrutiny — and it’s left me to reflect on how it...
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Jason James Barry
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The Man At The Door | Jason James Barry
There’s a picture of him I hadn’t seen until this past year, a tall figure dressed in black and framed by the doorway he hadn’t yet...
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Jason James Barry
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Colonoscopy: (Not) The Sum of Your Fears
First off, there was no sadistic laughter. And no haunting or horrifying flashes of memory. No Farrah Fawcett-scene out of the movie...
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Jason James Barry
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At 50 | Jason James Barry
So goes time, and it’s gotten to be even odds that I’ll snap awake now for no reason. Sometimes so early that I have the time to settle...
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Jason James Barry
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About a Girl: Strong, and in the Fight
On a day 12-years-plus ago, when my wife again became a mom, she asked I write to her, our new girl: Before you were born, your mom...
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GPR Editorial
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Equity, at the Exclusion of Others | GPR Editorial
It would be easy to bandy on about the ugly words batted around recently, at the expense of SDUHSD Superintendent Cheryl James-Ward....
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Calinfluence
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Calinfluence: That Blind Surfer (and Karate) Guy
Not long after first exploring Muay Thai — as my outlet for frustration and as a new focus in martial arts — now more than 5 years ago, I...
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Jason James Barry
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Chesterfield Road | Jason James Barry
The Why: A preface to the Chesterfield Road essay. The why. The question that comes when I dredge it all up, and now, after so long. For...
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GPR News
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Ceballos Fundraiser - Rudy's Taco Shop
SOLANA BEACH - deedsDONE.org is helping to spread the word about a fundraiser for the Ceballos family. Vincent Ceballos, a Solana Beach...
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Buzzard Digital
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Paradise Lost | Buzzard Digital
For the generation(s) yet to discover Meat Loaf's "Paradise By The Dashboard Light," it rings in our heads, and means exactly what you...
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Buzzard Digital
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Heavy Monsters — Kong vs Godzilla revisited
The heavyweight title fight we all cambered for began in 1963 and replayed for decades on Saturday afternoons since. While a CGI remake...
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Buzzard Digital
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1980s Gems on Streaming TV
Big budget films and CGI may grab audience attention, but some vintage films go where modern movies try paying homage to but fear to...
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GPR Editorial
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Revisiting the MLK Dream | GPR Editorial
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...
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Jason James Barry
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SAT Saturday | The Groncho Literary Page
I never thought about suicide when I was in high school, but I was miserable. After waxing euphoric from the great expectations set at...
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HEAVEdaily
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Newsom Mandates Masks (Again) in Bid for New Recall | HEAVEdaily
HEAVEdaily | Lampoon News — California Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to have waited for his new-and-improved mandate to take effect to again...
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Jason James Barry
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The Far End of the Bench | Jason James Barry
1989. Timing then was everything. And I found then, time was running out. Waiting until the end of next spring to get a varsity letter —...
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HEAVEdaily
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Allegory in Victimness | HEAVEdaily
In 1994, when I was wrapping up as an undergrad, I wrote what would turn out to be a handful of “commentary” columns for the college...
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Buzzard Digital
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Riverdale: The Back-In-Their-Day Comparison
The cast of Riverdale surely is stocked with hotties. And Season 3’s “Griffins and Gargoyles” flashback plot line had Archie, Jughead,...
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syZmc Commentary
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Jussie Smollett & the Lies by Association
It more than borders on ridiculousness that the salacious and largely implausible account went as far as it did. But when actor Jussie...
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