The cultural ties that gently bind | Jeannine Bogaard

Good morning. Pasadena was not considered that nice in 1970 when my parents moved here. It was affordable, close to downtown LA, and they felt like it might be a good place to bring up a family.There were three of us then. Uh, and my second brother was born in 1972. I remember that day at age eight as one of the happiest days of my life.We all went to a racially and ethnically public school. We ran around barefoot in the streets, made forts and treasure maps of the Royal Seiko with all the neighborhood kids ...