Doris O'Brien is a retired college Speech teacher and banker. She has published two books of humor (Up or Down With Women's Liberation and Humor Me a Little) and for many years contributed light verse to the Pepper 'n Salt column of the Wall Street Journal. She is an avid writer of letters to the editors.
Doris celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary in the same year she welcomed her first grandchild. She now lives in Pasadena with a great view of the San Gabriel mountains — and the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.
She can be reached by e-mail: witsendob at (@) gmail.com
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Starn Brothers Present Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Won’t, and You Don’t Stop (April 27 — October 31, 2010)
A work in progress, Big Bambú will continue to grow over the next several months until it resembles a 50-foot-tall cresting wave. Hand-assembled by the artists themselves and a team of 20-odd rock climbers from New Paltz, New York, using fresh-cut bamboo poles from Georgia and South Carolina, this urban grove is supposed to be "a microcosm of life itself in which everything is interdependent and changing." more »
Public Policy Issues Raised by the Report of the Lehman Bankruptcy Examiner
Rep. Jackie Speier: He has publicly stated that he felt “horrible” about the failure of Lehman. I say that is not enough. Give it back; disgorge yourself of the money. It is time that those whose greed, arrogance and fraud caused this crisis be held responsible. The bankruptcy examiner makes a compelling case that fraud took place and that Mr. Fuld is lying about his role in it. I guess that is to be expected since he is trying to avoid liability." more »
Excerpt from Tinkers, Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
But he was nearly a ghost, almost made of nothing, and so the wood and metal and sheaves of brightly printed cardboard and paper (MOVE FORWARD SIX SPACES TO EASY STREET! Great-Grammy Noddin, shawled and stiff and frowning at the camera, absurd with her hat that looked like a sailor's funeral mound, heaped with flowers and netting), which otherwise would have crushed his bones, dropped on him and fell away like movie props, he or they facsimiles of former, actual things. more »
Our Intertwined Lives
I asked him if he was disappointed that I wasn’t a son. He looked at me surprised and said, "You are the best son I never had ... and a wonderful daughter." more »
