Second Chance Dog Rescue

By Kimberley Graham Recently, the Coronado Clarion staff had the great pleasure of meeting Sandra Simpson, president of the Second Chance Dog Rescue organization.  Sandra is very hard-working, conscientious, and remarkably selfless as she forwards the cause of this...

Blue House/Electric Car

By Al Graham The blue house looks as if it was once used as a set for an episode of the Twilight Zone.  In reality, it really has stopped as if frozen in time, and in a wonderful time, when things were simple and people were happy. Mike makes the coolest belly...

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

The Nicolas Avery Brown Foundation Hi!  My name is Nicolas Avery Brown and I am a smart, precocious nine-year-old. I was born with a disability called Myotubular Myopathy.  It means that I have low-toned muscles.  I am wheelchair bound and I get sick really easy. I’ve...

Empathy

By Nina Odele I recently inherited a Merriam Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary published in 1959, when I was two years old. This dictionary is very beautiful, leather-bound, and still in great condition.  It was my Mother’s. We writers are an odd bunch....

Lest We Forget/Salute

By A. R. Graham. I stood by the bay near Il Fornaio restaurant on a lovely September morning watching the morning sun rise above our Magical Kingdom by the Sea. The baritone singer could be heard from 200 yards away:   “Back in 1893, the CPO he said to me…”  As the...

Quotes Of The Month

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” — Maureen Dowd (Posted by A.G.) “It’s said that the best storytellers see things through a camera lens.” — Coronado Magazine (Posted by...