I had the honor (finally) of coming to see many of the survivors of the Monterey Park shooting that occured on January 11, 2023 in which 11 people were killed and at least 9 wounded. There was a many who had attended Star Dance Studio years previously, and he had developed some kind of mental …
Well, I finished my trip around the world, and I was in Los Angeles for a month without a car. I rented a car and I decided it’s better. I go ahead and buy something! I’ve always heard that buying a car can be one of the most expensive things a person can do because …
In early 2021 I got Tinnitus, which is a constant ringing in the ears. The tinnitus was probably triggered by one of three things: When I got covid right on New Year’s Day of 2021, something really wierd happened that I still can’t adequately describe, where I had severe anxiety and severe insomnia. The next …
Finding Hope: My Journey to Tinnitus Habituation Read More »
It’s been a while (2018?), so I don’t remember all the details, but I recall this was a Cancer benefit, and perhaps it was the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Foundation. I remember is was held in Culver City. It was not just any ordinary charity event; it was a gathering that brought together some of the …
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These are my cats from more than 15 years ago. Captain, Eartha and Prissy.
My grandmother maintains many records about our family, which I believe my mother has now, but here follows a little bit of what I have: Images
I never realized that there is an actress named Tippi Hedren who was in the movie The Birds, and who was an inspiration to Vietnamese people who then went on to create their nail salon businesses and beauty schools. When she helped some refugees who came over around the time of the fall of Saigon …
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Perhaps there are millions of people related to Charlemagne, but I am one of them, and my grandmother was an avid genealogist, who spent hours and hours researching these things before we had the internet, so this is both interesting and sentimental for me. Charlemagne Family Tree Charlemagne(768-814)=Hildegard Pepin, King of Italy Bernard, King of …
Just made a couple of small edits (I don’t like broken links or bad formatting). At the time, I was probably using Dreamweaver. June 4th, 2002 – Day 1 of David-DuVal.com. Hosting with PHP and mySQL: I’ve been trying to learn more about building websites that interact with databases. The current hosting package that I am …
My grandfather told me long ago about the TIGER approach to life, and it is as true today as ever. I hope you will think through this for your own life. T – Tolerance People are different, but you have to be empathetic and try to understand what makes them the way they are I – Integrity …
