What Does New Years Mean to You? By Veronica MacDonald Ditko An Accidental Anthropologist Many New Year’s traditions are about banishing bad spirits for an entire year. Whether it’s a Sicilian custom of having the darkest-haired person run from the back door to the front at midnight, or Mexican custom […]
On December 13th, 2012 I shipped 6 wrapped Christmas gifts from the Oakland post office to my sister in Las Vegas. They were shipped parcel post, using a single USPS box I purchased there. A postal employee taped the box up in front of me. I wrote “Do Not Open […]
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New Year’s Eve will soon be here, and with it a few hours of revelry, a split second of transition, and then a new year will begin. Like a car driven off the sales lot, a new year can lose it’s value relatively fast. Perhaps the magic lasts for only […]
Prior to voting on the new Oakland Public Events Committee Ordinance Councilwoman Coira asked if it were possible to start a second trust fund which would be dedicated solely to the wishes of the committee members rather than having them adhere to the strict limitations of the present PEC Trust […]
Wow…what a year 2012 has been. It seems as if it was only a few weeks ago that I was with my dad’s side of the family in PA in their basement, huddled around the television watching the ball drop hoping that 2012 was going to be a great year. […]
