ARTICLES
BY MARY CAMARILLO


Gratitude and Expectations
Like Ray Wylie Hubbard advises in the epigraph to my forthcoming novel “The Lockhart Women”, the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my

THE COMFORT OF ROUTINE
The St. Bonaventure Church and Catholic School occupies the southwestern corner of the neighborhood where we live. The first church bells ring Monday through Friday

Special Interests in the Time of DeJoy
Last week our mailman delivered this very glossy brochure, telling me what a great selection Louis DeJoy was as our 75th Postmaster General. I don’t

Family Traditions
My family has started a difficult discussion on racism on Facebook, instigated by this Thomas Sowell quote from his November 1, 2016 article for the

Assumptions in the time of COVID19
My hobby is being right. I was a government auditor, a bean counter, the family keeper of addresses and phone numbers, the oldest sister in

Grocery Shopping in HB during the time of COVID19
Huntington Beach is all over the news these days because of the COVID19 protests, but Surf City’s always been associated with the outlaw side of

Earth Day in the Pandemic
When I started working for the Postal Service in 1974, there was an incredible amount of mail to be manually sorted and distributed. It seemed

Journalism in the Time of Pandemic
I am a forty plus year subscriber to the LA Times. I believe in supporting the free press and I think the Times does a

Key West in the time of COVID19
What’s the protocol for posting travel photos during a pandemic? I’m careful with what I share online, but when I travel, I document the trip

Appropriation
The latest Time Magazine reports how a new exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art aims to rectify the oversight of the impact of

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
After all that has been said and written about AD, I find that after finishing it last night, I still have more to say. I