by alan | Sep 10, 2010 | Premier Issue
By Kimberley Graham Tom Duryea was born into a very special Coronado family or shall I say a definite Coronado institution. The Duryea family came to our magical kingdom by the sea in the 1960s. They started the first surfboard shop on the island, called “Du-ray’s”,...
by alan | Sep 14, 2010 | Premier Issue
By Suzi Lewis Pignataro, Kimberley Dill Graham, Lynne Harpst Koen as well as “Chester”, “Roscoe”, “Tobey”, “Lilly”, and “Sandy” Suzi Lewis Pignataro’s Cockers: I started working with traumatized children while at an internship in grad school, 25 years ago. I love my...
by alan | Sep 4, 2010 | Premier Issue
For over 150 years, every Sunday morning in London’s Hyde Park, thousands of people gather at Speaker’s Corner to discuss and debate politics and life issues. It is a marvelous event where anyone, citizens and tourists alike, can stand up on a stage or a...
by alan | Sep 12, 2010 | Premier Issue
By Vincent Garnell When my mother died, she left a substantial inheritance to be shared between myself and my three brothers. The day we all gathered for the reading of the will was the single most awful day of my life and my brothers that were once very close to me...
by alan | Sep 19, 2010 | Premier Issue
By Nina Odele. I was born in 1957. It was in the days when good little children were seen and not heard. “Mother” would dress me up to greet her company for five minutes, then banish me to my room for the rest of the night. I thought that was perfectly normal until I...
by alan | Sep 7, 2010 | Premier Issue
By Nina Odele When I was a little girl, I thought all grandparents had to be at least 100 years old. Maybe there was some sort of rule that they be old and wrinkled up? Of course, that was from a child’s perspective. Now, at 53 years old, I have four wonderful...
