Jeanne Schinto

Bird watchers divide up San Diego County into 479 squares I covered the range just east of Rattlesnake Canyon San Diego County Bird Atlas grid. "For the bird atlas we set up our grid and tried to sample each cell to some minimum threshold." A steer skeleton lay in the dry creek bed. Tom extracted a tooth from its skull and handed it to me like a picked flower. Its roots were long and brown, so desiccated they looked almost wooden. Only its crown was any bit of white.

A Spanish Civil War story Dave Chriss balances a Scotch and water on the arm of a crushed-velvet chair in his Mira Mesa living room. He awaits the arrival of seven other senior citizens who survived the Spanish Civil War and are about to hold the first official meeting of the country’s newest, smallest chapter of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. By Sue Garson, July 17, 1980 | Read full article From Saigon to San Diego, a tale of survival.

It’s a little like admitting to being a heretic, but while working for 17 years as a reporter for M.A.D., my favorite items to write about weren’t pieces of furniture. They were pieces of paper. I loved to write about things like rare books and ephemera. Chests of drawers, not so much.