December 7, 2020
by Source
By Colleen O’Connor
In the age of Covid-19 pandemic, everyone is tasked with re-imaging the future.
Drive-in movies, flu shots. Take out and to go orders. Outdoor weddings and family gatherings.
Christmas celebrations might be full of “bubbles,” Zoom calls and Facetime visits.
Ocean Beach continued its Christmas tree in the sand “happening,” but needed to redo its annual parade of floats, people, pets, and cars in a “reverse parade”; in keeping with OB’s motto: “Its’ beside the Point.
Thus, the OB Town Council announced that a totally unusual pandemic, “you are the parade” event; where the streets were lined with the usual floats and everyone could drive by. “OB’s holiday theme this year is, appropriately, “Home for the Holidays.”
Likewise, San Diego’s Portuguese community, re-imagined a sacred holiday with verve and tradition.
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December 7, 2020
by Judi Curry
Pick Up Stix
3365 Rosecrans St.
San Diego, CA 92110
619-758-9041
By Judi Curry
As far back as I can remember I have always cooked for many people.
Beginning with my family of 5 – three daughters, husband and myself, trial and error was the key to breakfasts and dinners.
Later on, as my family grew to 18 grandchildren and the number of foreign language students that I have hosted – 598 – (not all at the same time!) I developed many different recipes that eventually made way into the three cookbooks that I authored. I always had “guinea pigs” to try the new concoctions that I was developing. I made it a point not to serve the same meal to my foreign language students for at least 6 months!
Now, because of COVID, several of the English Language schools that I dealt with have closed. One of the remaining schools placed a student with me on October 31, and he was a great guy. However, he is only 19 and really didn’t want to do his learning “on-line” and I did not feel safe from COVID by having him live here. After he told me that he “discovered” Black’s Beach, I asked the school to move him, and with his agreement, it was done. And so I find myself with no one to cook for, talk to, or even do laundry for.
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