Articles by Mary York

It must have been a grey, cloudy day when the door to my office creaked open and one of my bright-eyed colleagues peered in with a smile that told me something special was afoot. It must have been a grey day because every day in Prague is grey in October.

In October, in Prague and in classrooms around the globe, we celebrate World Teachers’ Day, and on that cozy afternoon when I was teaching in an elementary school in Braník, a suburb of the city, my colleague had come to tell me I had won an award as the most likable teacher.

If you were staring at the skies on Sunday night, there is a good chance you saw the SpaceX rocket launch that blazed across the coast of California.

The rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles around 7:30 p.m.

It was a short flight, touching back down on earth in fewer than ten minutes after having delivered the SAOCOM-1A Earth-observation radar satellite into orbit. This was the first time SpaceX landed a rocket on the West Coast, as most of the launches take place in Florida.

After 33 years in prison, Joe Tapia said what he really wanted was to get back to work.

Finding work can be difficult with a criminal background, especially when you have the tattoos to prove it, but even harder is finding work three decades after receiving any relevant work experience.

A book by a Los Angeles-based Rev. Gregory Boyle and a Santee-based start-up were about to make a huge difference in Tapia’s chances.

“I love breakfasts,” my grandma said wistfully as we sat at the River’s Edge Cafe & Bar on the Admiral Baker Golf Course this week.

I usually sleep through breakfast, to be honest. That could be because I pull pretty late hours in my line of work and given the choice to eat or sleep, I would rather sleep. Or it could simply be because my stomach does not wake up till after 11 a.m., but we found ourselves, nonetheless, drinking coffee and looking out over the foggy golf course at eight o’clock in the morning.